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Starbucks coffee buyer, TransFair USA founder take questions for online broadcast about Fair Trade on Monday
Posted by Melissa Allison
It's Fair Trade Month (also Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Awareness Month, but I digress), and given how key coffee is to the Fair Trade movement, and vice versa, it makes sense that the founder and CEO of TransFair USA, Paul Rice, would visit Seattle this month.
Oakland-based TransFair USA certifies the coffee, tea and other Fair Trade goods sold in the U.S. It's one of 24 members of the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International in Germany.
With Starbucks' recent promise to sell only Fair Trade-certified espresso drinks in Europe by March, it's an interesting time for Rice and Dub Hay, who oversees Starbucks' coffee buying, to hold a public conversation about Fair Trade coffee.
The talk will be broadcast online at 11 a.m. Pacific time on Monday.
You can submit questions in advance through the Fair Trade Certified page or the Starbucks page on Facebook, or by using the hashtag #beingfair on Twitter.
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