Re: coffee rant

From: jeremy <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:20:26 -0500

Mickey wrote:

jeremy <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For once I would like the grower to make more per pound than the commodities trader.

Then the grower should negotiate better.

When you are in a subsistence environment, you have no leverage. It happened in this country with sharecropping and company towns.
I have visited a lot of the countries where the corporations still use those techniques to control prices. The banana farms in Northern Panama are a good example, as are the pineapple plantations in Costa Rica.

JJ
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