The Mouths That Eat From Tea

by Chance Multimedia

Multinational tea companies market the comfort of a warm cup of tea, especially as the colder months approach. But, is it at the expense of illiterate or semi-illiterate farmers who aren’t appropriately compensated? Kinoti, a professor of international business in Denver, Colo., returns to his homeland of Kenya, the largest exporter of black tea, to find out. For him this is personal. He grew up on a subsistence tea farm and felt first hand the long legacy of the country’s colonial tea history.