Supposedly, the price I paid for imported Ethiopian coffee beans, of the finest quality, is mostly going to the companies who put the beans in bags, while the families who tend the soil year 'round where it grows, carry water up into the hills, (either on foot, in jars, or by something resembling a stationary bicycle made into a pump) to keep the plants healthy, keep the insects picked off by hand to keep the chemical content and expenses at a minimum, shoo away the marauding flocks of birds during the growing season, watch for maturity and hand pick the beans one at a time, when they are ready, and carry them down out of the hills on foot are getting about two percent of the total price.
That just does not seem right to me. I would not even have known, if one of the main perpetrators, getting rich off of this evil, were not making a big deal out of going global, right now.
