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Organic Coffee
By Randy Wilson, Fri Dec 9th
If you are at all aware of health and environmental issues,organic coffee is a product that should be interesting to you. Do you like to wake up in the morning, feel the sun's rays onyour face and savor the rich aroma of your favorite drinkbrewing? Do you like to spend rainy afternoons at the window, acup smoking in your hand? Or to sit up late at night, watching aclassic movie, the cheery pot resting at your elbow within easyreach? Then you will also want to ensure that you do not consumelots of harmful chemicals with the drink that you love so much.Then organic coffee beans are just what you need for your dailycup of coffee. It's a sad truth that modern agricultural practice greatlydepends on the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Inorder to supply the growing worldwide demand for popular crops,farmers don't have a choice but to use harmful substances thatboost production and minimize loss. Unfortunately, thesesubstances persist in the finished product, though in residualquantities. Coffee is not an exception to this.
As a partial solution to this problem of slow poisoning throughtoxic
residue, many people all over the world have chosen onlyto consume produce that has been grown using traditional methodsand without the use of chemicals. Many organic farms have sprungup to supply their needs. Organic coffee is grown on allcontinents, but predominantly in South America, where thetraditional low-tech methods are perhaps least different frommodern techniques.Organic coffee is produced under strict certificationguidelines, and growers do their best to ensure that the methodsare as environmental-friendly as possible. It is very oftenshade-grown, which means that large shade trees are used toshelter to coffee plants during critical periods of theirgrowing season. In terms of environmental protection, this issuperior to the high-tech method of clearing out wide regionsaround coffee plantations. It also means that the soil isprotected from erosion, and the habitat and food-sources ofbirds and wildlife remain intact.
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