We Are All Animals: Demystifying Starbucks’ Humane Washing

By Lili Trenkova [For Portuguese language, please visit ANDA's page for our post.] WE ARE ALL ANIMALS It is the year 2015 in the age of technological innovation, disposable comforts and ever-growing income inequality. Yet our collective progress has always come at the expense of "others" - from the very first colonized nations to the non-human animals in factory farms today. How do we rationalize this deliberate injustice? How do we justify a latte readily available to us within 2 minutes of purchasing it at the expense of the forest cut down to grow coffee beans, forest that once provided a home to thousands of animal and plant ...