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| − | Mass production of coffee needs wide swaths of clear land, typically in a rainforest environment where there is an abundance of direct sunlight day in and day out for the planted coffee crops. The immune system of the plants is deteriorated from the seemingly non-stop supply of heat and makes them prone to preying insects and bugs.
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| − | This necessitates the use of insecticides, chemicals, and fertilizers with a lot content of potent chemicals to stave off these parasites and insects. These are spayed on the plants directly and stay there even after gathering and roasting the crops. When you consume conventionally-grown coffee, you consume these insecticides, pesticides, and fertilizers, too.
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| − | Drink Organically-Grown Coffee Certified by the USDA
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| − | Several factors are considered before coffee can be given an organic certification such as the kind of fertilizer used. In a natural farm, it needs to be ONE HUNDRED % organic made from coffee pulp, general compost, chicken manure, and bocachi, among other materials. Even a one-time use of a fertilizer that contains phosphate, potash or artificial nitrogen is reason for the non-issuance of the organic certificate to the farm.
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| − | Your best bet is to consume coffee which has the UNITED STATE Department of Agriculture or USDA organic certification. The USDA has their agents go to coffee farms and production sites to confirm whether they should be issued an organic certification. For a farm to be organically certified, it must not use chemicals on crops for the following three years preceding the harvest due for certification. This guarantees that only crops grown as organic coffee can lay claim to its standing as "ONE HUNDRED % organic.".
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| − | Your Choice of Coffee Impacts on Your Health and that of Planet's.
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| − | Pursuing a healthy lifestyle seems futile if one's environment is unhealthy. That is why organic is gaining popularity in this day and age of climate change and global warming.
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| − | The kind of coffee that you decide to consume every day impacts not only your food choices but also the world's eventual future. Organic coffee is the outcome of a long chain of supply that begins with the organic farmer.
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| − | On a USDA organically-certified farm, the farmer does not use or spray any type of chemicals which contain synthetic, additive or dangerous ingredients in the soil or on the coffee crops, respectively.
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| − | How Drinking Conventionally-Grown Coffee Kills You and the Planet Slowly.
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| − | Consider this fact: if the chemical substances used to make these sprays were designed to kill parasites and insects, it's more than likely than these can kill people after a considerable period of ingesting them on a daily; drinking organic coffee could keep you from drinking these chemicals which also contaminate the water supply and toxin the soil the crops are planted in.
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| − | Workers who are exposed to them acquire medical conditions which they otherwise would not have developed if these substances were non-toxic. Beans that were sprayed are water washed after they are harvested, sending the water with the toxins washed off from the beans to rivers, lakes, streams or whatever water source it came from; this water will even be used to irrigate the soil once again.
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