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The coffee may be hot and sweet ... but do you know if it is fair?

If protesters at a world trade conference ever stop for coffee, the chances are it won't be a Starbucks. In 35 years it has come from nowhere to join McDonald's and Coca-Cola as an icon of global dominance.

SIMON BAIN and ALAN MacDERMID

IF protesters at a world trade conference ever stop for coffee, the chances are it won't be a Starbucks.