Starbucks Coffee Company hosted its 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 in Seattle, Washington at the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center. Following is an unedited script (prepared by myself) of a portion of the Q&A session that is directly related to the coffee trademark dispute between Starbucks and Ethiopia. Another investor, Bruce Herbat, President of Newground Social Investment, also expressed his concerns over Starbucks’ influence of the National Coffee Association to oppose Ethiopia’s trademark application. Herbat mentioned this in relation to his question about Starbucks’ transparency with respect to spending company finances for political contribution but it was not addressed by the executives. According to Starbucks' website, the audio webcast will be in archive until April 25th at: http://investor.starbucks.com/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=99518&eventID=1403060 ------------------ Q. Thank you, my name is Wond...