'Black Gold'

I finally watched Black Gold, a documentary made five years ago about coffee farmers in Ethiopia. It follows a co-op manager, Tadesse Meskela, as he tries to get higher prices for the coffee farmers. Equal Exchange buys from the co-op (Tadesse visited Equal Exchange a couple years ago for our 20th Anniversary party). Anyway, it really put a face to the poverty many coffee farmers are living in, largely because of the low prices they receive from major corporations that control the food industry - like Nestle, Proctor & Gamble, Starbucks and Kraft. I encourage anyone who drinks a cup of coffee to watch it. You'll see the benefits of the fair trade/co-op supply chain.