It creates an awareness that the person who grew your tea, coffee, or cotton has a name, a face, and a life.

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For example, one company realized that it was supplying three biscuits (as well as coffee, tea, and soft drinks) for every person attending meetings in the headquarters building.

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He told MPs she had travelled more widely than any other head of state in history, meeting some four million people in person and inviting two million guests to tea at Buckingham Palace.

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But if there is a Reagan out there to take the reins of the tea party movement, Russo doesn't know who that person is.

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