Travels with Grumpus

Apropos of our earlier post on fair trade and organic food , here’s a quote from a short piece in the New York Times that sums up the idiocy of the whole movement:

Amid the wine bars and boutiques that line Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Jonathan Coulton, 36, a musician wearing black rectangular glasses, was hunched over a laptop at Gorilla Coffee, where a blackboard proclaims all its coffees are fair trade. It “makes you feel like you’re doing something good just by drinking a cup,” he said.

“Nothing like painless sacrifice,” says Grumpus.

Read the whole article here.