{"id":1707,"date":"2005-10-28T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/10\/28\/mcdonalds-will-start-selling-organic-fair-trade-coffee\/"},"modified":"2005-10-28T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T16:22:00","slug":"mcdonalds-will-start-selling-organic-fair-trade-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/mcdonalds-will-start-selling-organic-fair-trade-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Will Start Selling Organic, Fair Trade Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From South Carolina&#8217;s <em>The State<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/mld\/thestate\/living\/13017167.htm\">news<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com\/\">McDonald&#8217;s<\/a> will start selling organic, fair-trade certified coffee in its New England stores next month:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deal calls for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmountaincoffee.com\/\">Green Mountain Coffee Roasters<\/a> to supply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmansownorganics.com\/food_coffee.html\">Newman&#8217;\u0092s Own Organics blend coffee<\/a> to more than 650 McDonald&#8217;s restaurants in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and in the Albany, N.Y., region.<\/p>\n<p>The coffee is certified as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fair_trade\">Fair Trade<\/a>, a moniker that assures the beans are produced by farmers who are guaranteed a minimum wage for their harvests and are encouraged to practice organic and sustainable cultivation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much like my response to Wal-Mart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/wal-mart-rolls-out-details-on.html\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/great-great-wal-mart-turnaround_21.html\">moves<\/a>, I&#8217;m skeptical of the motivation here &#8212; at the same time, it&#8217;s encouraging to believe that the demand for such a product is reaching the point that even a major player like McDonald&#8217;s can&#8217;t ignore it. And, of course, there&#8217;s the fact that McDonald&#8217;s coffee sucks (although I should offer a qualifier &#8212; I haven&#8217;t had any in a long time), so this should be a positive move in that sense.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/organic\" rel=\"tag\">organic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/fair+trade\" rel=\"tag\">fair trade<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/coffee\" rel=\"tag\">coffee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/McDonald%27s\" rel=\"tag\">McDonald&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From South Carolina&#8217;s The State, news that McDonald&#8217;s will start selling organic, fair-trade certified coffee in its New England stores next month: The deal calls for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>McDonald&#039;s Will Start Selling Organic, Fair Trade Coffee &#8226; 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