Dispatches - Starbucks and Nespresso The Truth About Your Coffee torrent

The UK is a nation of self-confessed coffee lovers. Starbucks and Nespresso – owned by Nestle – have helped revolutionise the way we drink coffee on the high street and now in our home. Both these brands make great play of their ethical credentials and claim to have “zero tolerance” of child labour.

But an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches has uncovered evidence that shows the truth to be rather different.

Last year Dispatches received information that coffee farms in Guatemala supplying these two coffee giants were employing children. Neither company publishes a list of the farms where they get their beans from, so Dispatches travelled to Guatemala to find out more. Posing as researchers scouting locations for a film showing where Britain’s favourite coffee comes from, the team were able to gain access to these suppliers and were taken to farms they were told supply Starbucks or Nespresso