Lawsuit alleges 'slavery-like' conditions at farm where Starbucks sources coffee beans
by editors@theworld.org (Joshua Coe) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6WW96)
Coffee giant Starbucks is being sued over allegations that it's sourcing its coffee beans from a farm in Brazil with slavery-like working conditions. The labor rights group International Rights Advocates is representing eight unnamed Brazilian farmworkers in the lawsuit. The World's Host Carol Hills spoke to Etelle Higonnet, the founder of Coffee Watch, an advocacy group focused on environmental and human rights abuses in the coffee industry, who joined from Copenhagen, Denmark.