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Date Posted: 21:30:55 04/02/06 Sun
Author: amadaun
Subject: How your cup of coffee destroys rainforest........
Its not enough anymore to avoid hamburgers [which contribute to deforestation] or eschew hardwood furniture and decking [ditto] but now we should think about how our coffee is grown too.
Did you realise that the lovely cup of coffee you may be currently sipping whilst surfing the net, is causing rainforest to be cleared?
Also, the people growing the coffee are often screwed out of even a tiny profit for producing the coffee that multi national companies make mega bucks out of?
If you think this stinks, look out for Fair Trade Shade Grown coffee [which is also generally organic.] Its available in New Zealand, so I'm sure you can get it in the States.
Paying a little extra for Fair trade means the farmers growing the coffee actually get a good return on their hard work.
Shade grown coffee doesn't require the forest to be cleared, as coffee naturally grows under the canopy of the large trees. This allows the farmers to grow food crops as well, which supports their families.
And guess what? it tastes unbelievably good too!!!
~~though maybe some of the goodness is the feeling that you're saving the forest and helping a subsistence farmer and his family as well.
http://www.zekes.co.nz/
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Re: How your cup of coffee destroys -- Jes, 08:47:53 04/03/06 Mon [1]
Starbucks sells a free trade coffee. People must not buy it though, because I was GIVEN an entire case of it once. My best friend was a manager and she would donate their coffee that they needed to get rid of to my Scout pack. Normally, I'd get a bag here and there. That time, I got an ENTIRE case?
I don't like shade grown coffee - maybe that's why? Or maybe people are just afraid? I don't know.
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Re: How your cup of coffee... -- 23, 09:46:28 04/03/06 Mon [1]
I don't drink coffee.
Tastes like poo.
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Re: poo -- amadaun, 19:52:17 04/03/06 Mon [1]
Really? so you've tried poo and it tastes like coffee?
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coffee -- Leo, 21:30:17 04/03/06 Mon [1]
Fair trade organic coffee is easy to obtain here. I've been buying it since I first heard about fair trade. I either buy Seattles Best or a local brand, Bucks County. I love Trader Joe's Bay Blend, but I don't think its one of their fair trade offerings. I don't understand why they all wouldn't be.
But yeah, I feel much better about my addiction if I know what I'm buying, and where my money goes.
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Re: How your cup of coffee -- 23, 08:35:52 04/04/06 Tue [1]
Of course I have. I wouldn't go and throw around statements like that if I couldn't back them up with experience.
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coffee -- amadaun, 20:00:11 04/04/06 Tue [1]
Leo, if only more people realised what a difference it makes when you think before spending. Done en-masse it can change the world, literally.
Twan, you're just plain kinky. First baby eating, now poo drinking.
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Re: How your cup of coffee........ -- noslave, 20:50:33 04/05/06 Wed [1]
Twan, is this the coffee you tried?
civet coffee
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Re: How your cup of coffee..... -- 23, 12:40:16 04/06/06 Thu [1]
Well, we don't have civet here in the US, so I just periodically wring out one of our cats like a washcloth and run the "product" through our Black & Decker.
So, did you know about that stuff already, or did you just google "poo coffee?" That's craziness. I'm going to have to forward that link to some people.
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Re: How your cup of coffee........ -- noslave, 16:01:46 04/06/06 Thu [1]
I already knew about it - shopped there before (not for faecal products!)
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How your cup of coffee destroys rainforest... -- carson1, 16:13:15 04/06/06 Thu [1]
Puked in my mouth a little....I think they used to serve that stuff in my college cafeteria (HA!).
I LOVE coffee. It so yummy.....
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poo coffee -- amadaun, 17:04:52 04/06/06 Thu [1]
Noslave..........
EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
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