As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.
Millions of coffee farmers worldwide are literally dying in poverty following a crash in coffee prices on the world market, reaching their lowest level in a century in 2001. Cynically, however, meanwhile coffee traders, multinationals and retailers are generating millions in profits every year from coffee sales worldwide...
This heartbreaking but excellent documentary is a must see for anyone who is concerned and not indifferent to the extreme poverty, misery and suffering of millions of coffee farmers around the world. ( click on the title above for the link to view the entire video )
Inaction stemming from indifference is worse than inaction rooted in ignorance...
The world is now too small for anything but Truth and Justice.
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" The extension of the Law of Non-Violence in the domain of economics means nothing less than the introduction of Moral Values to be used in regulating international commerce...You cannot build a non-violent society based on exploitation. Exploitation is the essence of violence." Mahatma Gandhi