Black Gold: The Movie that will Roast Starbucks

by Paula Neal Mooney

Just as Super Size Me became the bane of McDonald's existence and Fast Food Nation fictionally treaded upon the e-coli scare at Jack in the Box and Mexican-immigrants-as-underpaid-workers controversy, now comes Black Gold threatening to do the same to the Starbucks leviathan.

Black Gold received lots of attention at Sundance in January, and only then would Starbucks Corp. reportedly grant interviews to brothers Nick and Mark Francis, the ones who shot the Black Gold documentary, which shows the abject poverty among Ethiopian coffee growers.

Starbucks sent an email saying Black Gold was "inaccurate and complete" to the coffee giant's UK Starbucks employees, but the chief executive of Starbucks will meet soon with an Ethiopian prime minister.

I'll lift my grande mocha and hope that Black Gold will force Starbucks to play nice, and dole out more of the 4 bucks a pop -- or, a fabulous Starbucks vanilla latte, I should say -- that us Starbucks consumers pay (I'm willing to pay more) to the poor growers who work their backs out to bring it to us. Amen.

Check out the trailer of Black Gold now.

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