Emmy Award
Emmy Award 2019
Emmy award for Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report
Emmy Award 2017
A yearlong investigation by The Weather Channel and Telemundo gathered evidence that child labor is commonplace during the coffee harvest in Chiapas, the poorest state in Mexico. This documentary illustrates in stark, human terms the failures and limitations of an elaborate global system of third-party monitoring established by the coffee industry to assure its sourcing is ethical, and a violation of international agreements and laws meant to prohibit child labor
By following the supply chain to the source, the documentary shows how -- despite global agreements and the laws of nations that prohibit such labors -- children fill and lug heavy bags of coffee while living in harsh conditions. Even large coffee companies such as Nestlé or Starbucks, which rely on third-party inspections to back up their claims for ethical sourcing, cannot really vouch for what happens on millions of coffee farms from which they acquire beans.
This is a gritty, real-world tour to the bottom of the murky coffee supply chain, where feel-good marketing clashes with harsh realities socially conscious consumers may find surprising if not shocking