A rhetorical conversation starter:

Starbucks purchases mugs from American Mug & Stein, in East Liverpool, Ohio, and sells them in their stores. Not your typical corporate move, which would choose a large-scale factory in Asia over a small-town factory in the U.S.

How does that relationship (and others, like Chipotle’s commitment to sustainable food systems) alter the perception we have about global corporations?

Can supporting corporations be okay, if their practices break the mold of what made “corporations” a bad word in the first place?

Discuss.

-Ben