It’s a rant, I wrote it because it bugged me.

So feeling good about your fair trade coffee? Read this, maybe that’ll make you think.

Nevertheless, a typical Ethiopian coffee farmer still receives less than 1 per cent of what Canadian consumers pay for their lattes. (The farmers sell red cherries for 1 birr, or 11 cents per kg, it takes six kg of cherries to make one kg of green beans, 1.2 kg of green beans to make 1 kg of roasted beans, and each kilo of roasted beans makes 60 cups, sold for an average of $3 each, or $180.) And unlike the other main African producers (Ivory Coast, Uganda and Kenya), the vast majority of Ethiopian coffee is grown by small farmers.

Went inline skating today for the first time in around 10 years, only fell once…. Sorta happy.

Need to practice more.