{"id":2668,"date":"2006-07-14T05:45:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T09:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/the-end-of-poverty-in-your-coffee-cup\/"},"modified":"2006-07-14T05:45:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T09:45:56","slug":"the-end-of-poverty-in-your-coffee-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/the-end-of-poverty-in-your-coffee-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"the end of poverty in your coffee cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to make of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewb.ca\/\">EWB<\/a>&#8216;s current campaign, which features a future newspaper headline <strong>G8 Leaders Declare End of Extreme Poverty<\/strong>. It links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playyourpart.ca\/\">playyourpart.ca<\/a>, which seems to say that we can end world poverty just by buying fair-trade goods?<\/p>\n<p>I know there&#8217;s a lot wrong with the coffee industry (<em>Free Trade Coffee: You Grind The Beans, We Grind The Peasants! Enjoy the smooth trickle-down flavour<\/em>, etc) but it&#8217;s a simplistic argument. What can the extremely poor sell to us?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to make of EWB&#8216;s current campaign, which features a future newspaper headline G8 Leaders Declare End of Extreme Poverty. It links to playyourpart.ca, which seems to say that we can end world poverty just by buying fair-trade goods? I know there&#8217;s a lot wrong with the coffee industry (Free Trade Coffee: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1044,705,1401,579,1151,1066,510,943,1097,650,1160,1312,301,1161,327,1345,1024,879,582],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-amp","tag-art","tag-beans","tag-camp","tag-coffee","tag-eat","tag-free","tag-gum","tag-headline","tag-ink","tag-joy","tag-link","tag-moot","tag-paper","tag-poo","tag-ren","tag-trad","tag-wrong","tag-xt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-H2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}