ANOTHER reason to boycott Starbucks: Animal Cruelty

[Karen]

Buck Starbucks!

Starbucks Sponsors Animal Abuse, Injury and Death

In July 2005, SHARK investigators discovered that Starbucks was buying ad space in a program for the Cheyenne (Wyoming) Frontier Days Rodeo. This is one of the most cruel and brutal rodeos in the country. As has been documented with pictures and videotape by SHARK investigators, many animals are injured and some are killed.


A photo of the actual Starbucks ad as seen in the 2005 Cheyenne Frontier Days Souvenir Program.
The Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo includes an event called single steer roping (also known as steer busting or steer tripping). Steer busting is so brutal and cripples and kills so many animals that it is allowed in only a handful of western states.

Starbucks would like its consumers to think the company's support of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo was an isolated incident. However, subsequent research revealed that Starbucks wassponsoring a number of rodeo events in multiple states, including Texas, Missouri and Washington State. As is our policy, SHARK attempted to contact Starbucks to give them an opportunity to look into our allegations against rodeos and do the right thing. Starbucks refused to so much as respond to our private inquiries.

When SHARK went public about Starbucks’ rodeo sponsorships, its public relations people first stonewalled concerned customers -- an oddity for a company claiming to be “socially responsible” or “ethical.” Faced with a rising number of inquiries, Starbucks next issued a statement claiming that it merely took out one advertisement in the Cheyenne rodeo program. The apparent attitude was that supporting animal abuse on a small scale was acceptable.

Interestingly, Starbucks did not, and still has not responded to the fact that it also sponsored rodeo events in other parts of the country, including having the noteworthy title of being a “Gold Spur Sponsor” of a rodeo in Belton, Texas. Starbucks also joined a number of rodeo organizations and the Washington Trappers Association to sponsor a rodeo event in the state of Washington. Additionally, Starbucks was a sponsor of the American Royal Rodeo which has for two straight years been exposed for cruelty and violations of even the “humane rules” of the sanctioning rodeo association.

The question is whether sponsoring cruel events that maim and kill animals is something positive. Apparently Starbucks believes that answer to that question is yes, while most of its customers across the US and beyond who have looked at this issue disagree. By viewing the photograhs below and elsewhere on this site, we hope you take the opportunity to look at the issue for yourself and decide.


https://www.sharkonline.org/index.php?&page=0000000347
PURE FEAR
WRITE STARBUCKS AND SAY "WE WON'T DRINK TO THIS!"

[SJM]

Seems to me the fact that their coffee isn't very good is a good enough reason not to drink it.

Buck Starbucks!

Starbucks Sponsors Animal Abuse, Injury and Death

In July 2005, SHARK investigators discovered that Starbucks was buying ad space in a program for the Cheyenne (Wyoming) Frontier Days Rodeo. This is one of the most cruel and brutal rodeos in the country. As has been documented with pictures and videotape by SHARK investigators, many animals are injured and some are killed.


A photo of the actual Starbucks ad as seen in the 2005 Cheyenne Frontier Days Souvenir Program.
The Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo includes an event called single steer roping (also known as steer busting or steer tripping). Steer busting is so brutal and cripples and kills so many animals that it is allowed in only a handful of western states.

Starbucks would like its consumers to think the company's support of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo was an isolated incident. However, subsequent research revealed that Starbucks wassponsoring a number of rodeo events in multiple states, including Texas, Missouri and Washington State. As is our policy, SHARK attempted to contact Starbucks to give them an opportunity to look into our allegations against rodeos and do the right thing. Starbucks refused to so much as respond to our private inquiries.

When SHARK went public about Starbucks’ rodeo sponsorships, its public relations people first stonewalled concerned customers -- an oddity for a company claiming to be “socially responsible” or “ethical.” Faced with a rising number of inquiries, Starbucks next issued a statement claiming that it merely took out one advertisement in the Cheyenne rodeo program. The apparent attitude was that supporting animal abuse on a small scale was acceptable.

Interestingly, Starbucks did not, and still has not responded to the fact that it also sponsored rodeo events in other parts of the country, including having the noteworthy title of being a “Gold Spur Sponsor” of a rodeo in Belton, Texas. Starbucks also joined a number of rodeo organizations and the Washington Trappers Association to sponsor a rodeo event in the state of Washington. Additionally, Starbucks was a sponsor of the American Royal Rodeo which has for two straight years been exposed for cruelty and violations of even the “humane rules” of the sanctioning rodeo association.

The question is whether sponsoring cruel events that maim and kill animals is something positive. Apparently Starbucks believes that answer to that question is yes, while most of its customers across the US and beyond who have looked at this issue disagree. By viewing the photograhs below and elsewhere on this site, we hope you take the opportunity to look at the issue for yourself and decide.


https://www.sharkonline.org/index.php?&page=0000000347
PURE FEAR
WRITE STARBUCKS AND SAY "WE WON'T DRINK TO THIS!"

[Karen]

You would think taste would be a deterrent, but it doesnt seem to be. Also an obvious deterrent, the coffee is not fair traded, so you know the people doing the work to raise it are living in miserable poverty. And Starbucks have put uncountable independent businesses out of business all over the world. Doing busoiness with Starbucks takes money out of the local economy. There are too many Starbucks. How dull and bland our coffees have become in that sticky, dark, Starbucky environment, repeated ad nauseum across the landscape. They don't use organic coffees so they are contributing to ecosystem destruction for organic coffee cannot be grown as a monoculture with heavy applications of fertilizer and pesticides. Organic coffees must retain the forest setting for the coffee plants and rely on natural processes to nourish and protect the plants. So many reasons to spend elsewhere! Pass it on!

Seems to me the fact that their coffee isn't very good is a good enough reason not to drink it.