Starbucks

[Brad DeLong]

>Conservation International and Starbucks announce new
>coffee sourcing guidelines
>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-11/ci-cia111201.php
>Seek to integrate environmental and social criteria
>In a first for the coffee industry, Starbucks Coffee
>Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) today announced new coffee
>purchasing guidelines developed in partnership with
>The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, a
>division of Conservation International (CI). The goal
>of the guidelines is to support Starbucks commitment
>to purchase coffee that has been grown and processed
>by suppliers who meet important environmental, social,
>economic and quality standards.

Does this mean: "In the future, Starbucks will buy only from small 
farmers in the relatively well-off producing regions of Costa Rica 
and Mexico, and will not buy any coffee from poor producing regions 
in Indonesia and Kenya?"

Brad DeLong