$9.69
$9.69
Ladies and gentlemen ... friends ... I am ashamed. I am ashamed to admit that is what I paid for 2 cups of coffee yesterday. A friend asked me, yesterday, to stop and buy he and his coworker two beverages from S*a*b*c*'s - and I did it.
I've been there before, and I even admit to enjoying some of their products. As I left their establishment, nearly $10 lighter, with two MEDIUM sized cups of warm, frothy goodness I had an epiphany. It was as though I could see the light glimmering along the razor's edge of my conscience.
In a world where children are sold into slavery, women are shipped around the world in cargo containers as human commodities, there are people gulping down oblivion at $5 a cup. I have been one. It was small comfort that a man, in line ahead of me, was a worse offender than I. He paid in the neighbourhood of $75.00 for a dozen coffees for he and his film crew buds.
I do not claim the corporation with the green, circular logo, contributes to these societal abominations - not directly. But they, and all the corporations like them, contribute in as much as they proliferate unbridled consumerism. And shame on you and I (yes, shame on me, personally) for having contributed to that, and allowing it to happen by buying their product. Shame on us for throwing our money toward this Washington state conglomerate, rather than striving to end ... global hunger ... for one.
I wonder what would happen if each of those patrons traded in their $5 cup, for one that cost $1.50 and donated the difference (at the end of a month) to a shelter for the homeless, or for abused women. Just a thought.
