...[W]e have become aware of the so-called “official statement” from the National Coffee Board, coordinated by the Ministry of Labor and Employment, which, in a shamefully veiled manner, specifically attacks and attempts to discredit the report/study released by KnowTheChain, produced in partnership with ADERE-MG, which leads us to respond to this “official statement” and deeply repudiate its content, since it demonstrates, right from the start, an exclusively corporate bias, disregarding the reality of labor and human rights violations suffered by many workers in Brazilian coffee plantations. Instead of acknowledging the enormous problem of the nearly widespread precariousness in labor relations, the recurring and endemic CRIME of labor analogous to slavery, the “Board” misses a great opportunity and fails to rise to the occasion by acknowledging the problem and, thereby, redirecting its actions and truly contributing to a cultural shift in the archaic labor relations within the coffee production chain in Brazil, which is regrettable and outrageous...

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