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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 crops is weakened from the seemingly non-stop supply of heat and makes them prone to preying insects and parasites.
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| − | This necessitates the use of pesticides, chemicals, and fertilizers with so much content of potent chemicals to stave off these vermins and insects. These are spayed on the crops straight and remain there even after collecting and roasting the crops. When you consume conventionally-grown coffee, you ingest these insecticides, pesticides, and fertilizers, too.
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| − | Drink Organically-Grown Coffee Certified by the USDA
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| − | Many factors are considered before coffee can be given an organic certification such as the kind of fertilizer used. In an organic farm, it has to be 100 % organic made from coffee pulp, general compost, chicken manure, and bocachi, among other products. 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 U.S. Department of Agriculture or USDA organic certification. The USDA has their representatives check out coffee farms and production sites to validate whether or not they should be issued an organic certification. For a farm to be organically certified, it must not use chemicals on crops for the next three years preceding the harvest due for certification. This ensures that only crops grown as organic coffee can lay claim to its status as "100 % 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 and balanced 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 earth's eventual future. Organic coffee is the outcome of a long chain of supply that starts 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 artificial, additive or poisonous substances 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 get rid of pests and bugs, it's more than likely than these can get rid of humans after a considerable period of ingesting them on a daily; drinking organic coffee could keep you from drinking these chemicals which also pollute the water supply and poison 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 originated from; this water will even be used to irrigate the soil once again.
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| − | Visit: [http://amazon.com/shops/nevilles coffee]
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