Seattle Times asks: Who’s getting the coffee from Ethiopia?
By: Melissa Allison Seattle Times-Melissa Allison tracks Seattle’s — and the world’s — caffeine addiction. The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange wants people to know that the country is still exporting coffee. When I declined to correct this blog post from last week, because it accurately says that the country’s six largest exporters — not all of its exporters — have been shut down, here’s the e-mail I got in return: Dear Melissa: I find it difficult to believe that a title that starts “Ethiopia halts coffee exports..” can be in any way conceived as factually acceptable since it is blatantly false. Ethiopia has continued to export coffee every day since the legal actions taken by the regulators. There are more than 120 registered coffee exporters and this is an action concerning 6 companies. I also find it incredible that [another reporter] finds this to be a correct title since he knows firsthand that a statement that Ethiopia has halted coffee exports is patently untrue and extremely damag
