Starbucks: certified coffee farms are caught using slave and child labor in Minas Gerais

The largest and most famous coffee chain in the world, with 35,000 points of sale in 83 countries, Starbucks is unable to ensure that the coffee sold in its stores is not associated with serious labor and human rights crimes, such as low wages, cold food for harvest workers, inadequate accommodation, job insecurity, child labor and even slave labor.

At least four properties experienced problems like this while they were still suppliers to the American multinational. The cases are portrayed in the report “Behind Starbucks coffee”, published by Repórter Brasil (available in Portuguese and English).

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