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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 everyday for the planted coffee crops. The immune system of the crops is weakened from the seemingly non-stop supply of heat and makes them susceptible 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 crops directly and remain there even after gathering and roasting the crops. When you drink conventionally-grown coffee, you take in 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 a natural farm, it has to be 100 % 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 synthetic nitrogen is cause for the non-issuance of the organic certificate to the farm.
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| − | Your best bet is to drink coffee which has the U.S. Department of Agriculture or USDA organic certification. The USDA has their representatives 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 3 years preceding the harvest due for certification. This guarantees that only crops grown as organic coffee can lay claim to its condition 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 way of life seems futile if one's environment is unhealthy. That is why organic is gaining appeal in this day and age of climate change and global warming.
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| − | The kind of coffee that you choose to drink each day impacts not only your food choices but also the planet'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 chemicals which contain synthetic, additive or dangerous substances in the soil or on the coffee crops, respectively.
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| − | How Drinking Conventionally-Grown Coffee Kills You and the Earth 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 human beings after a considerable period of ingesting them on a daily; consuming organic coffee could keep you from consuming these chemicals which also pollute 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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