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ETHICS (čth´îk) noun 1. a. A set of principles of right conduct. b. A theory or a system of moral values 2. ethics (used with a sing. verb). The study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person; moral philosophy. 3. ethics (used with a sing. or pl. verb). The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession: medical ethics. [Middle English ethik, from Old French ethique (from Late Latin ęthica, from Greek ęthika, ethics) and from Latin ęthicę (from Greek ęthikę), both from Greek ęthikos, ethical, from ęthos, character.] |
LUGZ means ethical imports including (1) fairly traded coffee from 12+ developing regions worldwide, (2) tea
imports from everywhere between South Africa to Indonesia and everywhere between, and (3) a retailer proud
of the brews it concocts. LUGZ now supplies various coffee shops in Vancouver and Seattle, but out passion
is serving flocks of regulars at 2525 Main Street. Visit us & find out why tasters travel across the city!
Something to think about: Thousands of people in the valleys and plantations around the world (South Africa,
Kenya, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Assam, Ceylon, Cameroon, Central China, Japan, Sumatra, and the South Americas
including Nicaragua, Guatemala, Columbia, among others) all depend on the kind of coffee you buy.
That means that whenever you support fairly traded and 'independent', locally owned businesses,
you will reassure their supplies, from these places above and more, with your scrupulousness.
Read up and see how things are; how hard the plantations try to produce coffee of good quality
for the north and west. Plantations (both coffee and tea growers) receive minimal payment for all their efforts, why is that?
Consumers (coffee drinkers, et al.) should tell all those ecologists, those very distinguished professionals, that
the forests (surrounded by evergreen trees grown in a narrow sub-tropical belt around the world like Latin
America and the Caribbean Islands, Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and Indonesia, Hawaii, India, and
Southeast Asia, etc.) are being extinguished and they urgently, urgently need our (ethical/egalitarian) help.
That's why we're proud of the coffee here. From the third worlds plantations' perspectives, "having to sell
all their coffee to a few powerful commerciantes, [or] intermediaries.... committed a kind of violence against
[the plantations]. They treated coffee just like anything else, with ruthless self-interest and indifference
to its quality, and the price they paid was very low." Support coffee co-ops, support the families who grow
the beans for independent business worldwide.
See you at LUGZ COFFEE LOUNGE
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