Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Notes 2

We watched videos in class and we had to find five terms we are unfamiliar with. They are:

Coffee is the most heavily traded crop

The money that is made by selling coffee isn't being given to the people in poverty that make it.

Specialty Coffee: special coffees.

Who consumes the most coffee in the world? Finland

Where is the only place in America that makes coffee? Hawaii


Who makes all the money in selling the coffee? The people who actually sell it (Starbucks, McDonalds, etc.). Not the people that grow it.

Fair Trade Coffee: Changing the fact that before the coffee industry was like a sweat shop.

Organic Certified Coffee:


What is changing as big company's buy coffee? They ask more questions that shows they are starting to care about these growers more.

Who is the number 1 exporter of coffee? Brazil

Crop: Anything you consume as a person.

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