{"id":635589,"date":"2022-12-17T23:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=635589"},"modified":"2022-12-18T00:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T04:24:05","slug":"multi-faith-clergy-asks-coffee-chains-to-not-charge-extra-for-milk-alternatives-as-an-issue-of-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/635589\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-faith clergy asks coffee-chains to not charge extra for milk-alternatives as an issue of fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-635590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hindu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"426\" \/>A multi-faith coalition of Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish leaders is urging the nation\u2019s\u00a0largest coffeehouse chains to immediately stop charging extra for plant-based milk alternatives; calling it \u201cunethical\u201d and \u201cunfair\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Coffeehouse chains like Starbucks, Dunkin\u2019, Coffee Bean &amp; Tea Leaf, Caribou, Dutch Bros,\u00a0Biggby, Peet&#8217;s, Human Bean, PJ&#8217;s, etc., roughly charge on an average about 70\u00a2 extra per cup when customer opts for plant-based milk-alternatives made of oat, soy, almond, coconut; in place of milk in their drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Episcopal priest in Connecticut Father Thomas W. Blake, Greek-Orthodox clergyman in Nevada Father Stephen R. Karcher, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, renowned Buddhist minister Reverend Matthew T. Fisher, esteemed Jewish rabbi in California-Nevada ElizaBeth Webb Beyer,\u00a0Senior United Methodist Pastor Reverend Dawn M. Blundell;\u00a0in a joint statement; reminded coffeehouse chains to follow their own respective callings of ethical business practices and doing the right thing by fixing this issue of unfairness.<\/p>\n<p>A coffee company should not be in the business of taxing individuals who had chosen the plant-based lifestyle and thus dairy-free milk-alternatives for dietary restrictions, ethical issues, health risk worries, environmental concerns, lactose intolerance, milk allergy, increased prostate cancer risk, unease at antibiotics-hormones-<wbr \/>pesticides, animal welfare, etc.; Blake, Karcher, Zed, Fisher, Beyer, Blundell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday-season was a good time for coffeehouse chains to renounce mercantile greed and promote equality; thus earning some good-karma and goodwill; by making plant-based milk alternatives more accessible to every customer by removing the surcharge barriers; Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, suggested.<\/p>\n<p>These Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish religious leaders urged CEOs and Board Chairs of big coffeehouse chains to not continue to blatantly ignore their sweet-sounding missions-values-visions of making a massive difference in the lives of customers; and<b>\u00a0<\/b>instead show some truth in their apparently community-focused slogans by immediately dropping this surcharge for choosing plant-based milk alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-faith coalition of Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish leaders is urging the nation\u2019s\u00a0largest coffeehouse chains to immediately stop charging extra for plant-based milk alternatives; calling it \u201cunethical\u201d and \u201cunfair\u201d. Coffeehouse chains like Starbucks, Dunkin\u2019, Coffee Bean &amp; Tea Leaf, Caribou, Dutch Bros,\u00a0Biggby, Peet&#8217;s, Human Bean, PJ&#8217;s, etc., roughly charge on an average about 70\u00a2 extra per cup when customer opts for plant-based milk-alternatives made of oat, soy, almond, coconut; in place of milk in their drinks. Senior Episcopal priest in Connecticut Father Thomas W. Blake, Greek-Orthodox clergyman in Nevada Father&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":635590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}