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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 plants is damaged from the seemingly non-stop supply of heat and makes them susceptible to preying insects and pests.
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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 plants straight and remain there even after gathering 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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| − | 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 % natural 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 source 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 representatives see 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 next three years preceding the harvest due for certification. This makes sure that only crops grown as organic coffee can lay claim to its condition as "ONE HUNDRED % natural.".
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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 pick to consume every 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 begins 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 hazardous 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 kill pests and bugs, it's more than likely than these can kill humans after a considerable period of ingesting them on a daily; drinking organic coffee can keep you from drinking these chemicals which also pollute the water supply and toxin the soil the crops are grown in.
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| − | Workers who are exposed to them acquire medical conditions which they or else 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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