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Oct 21, 2006

Is Starbucks greenwashing with its latest Black Apron coffee?

The newest Starbucks Black Apron edition coffee, Ethiopia Gemadro Estate, is touted as being sustainable and preserving habitat. Digging a bit into the background reveals this coffee is grown by a huge multinational conglomerate that is replacing endangered wild coffee with nursery-grown plants and expanding into land that Starbucks describes as primary forest. Read the whole story.  » original news