Fair Trade Month 2009 » Way 12: Ask Questions

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Children of the Kuapa Kokoo Cooperative hold up a Fair Trade chocolate bar
Today is the best day of the year for those of us with an unquenchable sweet tooth: Halloween! If you’re too old to go trick-or-treating yourself this year, stay home and hand out Fair Trade Certified Chocolate to trick-or-treaters and explain the significance [...]

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Way 12: Ask Questions

More and more Americans are supporting Fair Trade Certified by drinking Fair Trade coffee – a simple action that has made a huge impact on farmers in the global south. Just ask Starbucks, the largest purchaser of Fair Trade Certified coffee in the world.

Today, we invite you to join Paul Rice, the CEO of Transfair USA, and Dub Hay, Starbucks Senior senior Vice vice President president of Coffee & Tea at Starbucks on USTREAM at 11am PT/2pm ET. This will be a live Q&A discussion about the Fair Trade Certified and Starbucks commitment to helping improve the lives of small-scale coffee farmers around the world.

To RSVP and submit a question for the live online conversation, leave a comment here, or tweet your question @fairtradeusa with the #beingfair hashtag. You can submit questions before or during the discussion.

This is a great opportunity to get real answers to questions you have about Starbucks and Fair Trade! So, start thinking about what it is you want to know and ask away!