{"id":877,"date":"2017-02-15T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=877"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:24:27","slug":"caffeine-without-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/02\/15\/caffeine-without-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Caffeine without Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">What all goes into your morning cup of coffee?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I don&#8217;t know about you, but coffee is a big deal to me. It has been my constant companion since 9th grade. So when I was contemplating topic ideas, coffee instantly came to mind. I decided that I wanted to learn more about the coffee industry to know about the labor that goes into the beverage I consume on a daily basis. I want to be aware and informed of the slavery and unfair conditions that are going on in the coffee industry so that the decisions I make aren\u2019t contributing to corruption. To begin, I am using Google to get basic information about the coffee industry and what all goes into the production. I am hoping to research more about the different countries where coffee is produced and learn about what kind of labor is going on in each country or I might narrow my focus to one or a few countries. I want to learn more about:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">how much slavery is involved in each country<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">what the different types of labor are that are being used (child labor, forced labor)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">what all goes into the process of coffee production<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">what does Fair Trade coffee entail (what are the benefits, what are the drawbacks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>what companies ethically grow and manufacture coffee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodispower.org\/coffee\/\">http:\/\/www.foodispower.org\/coffee\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.worldvision.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/7280_DTL_Factsheet_Coffee_Web_Single.pdf\">http:\/\/campaign.worldvision.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/7280_DTL_Factsheet_Coffee_Web_Single.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What all goes into your morning cup of coffee? I don&#8217;t know about you, but coffee is a big deal to me. It has been my constant companion since 9th grade. So when I was contemplating topic ideas, coffee instantly came to mind. I decided that I wanted to learn more about the coffee industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}