LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers are combing through old versions of Starbucks’ website to prove their claims the company misleads customers into thinking it cares about where it cocoa comes from.
The case against Starbucks is one in a group of similar lawsuits that says companies that use cocoa harvested in West Africa by means of child and slave labor are faking their interest in buying cocoa that is ethically sourced.
Using software called Wayback Machine, which provides a digital archive of internet sites, plaintiffs lawyers say they have proof Starbucks made representations that its goal was to purchase cocoa that was not the product of child or slave labor.