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You may have heard that organic coffee is
better than regular coffee.
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What just what does organic coffee mean?
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O Organic.org tells us what organic means.
O Simply stated, organic produce and other
ingredients are grown without the use of
pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, sewage
sludge, genetically modified organisms, or
ionizing radiation. Animals that produce
meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products do
not take antibiotics or growth hormones.
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As we noted in our article, Organic Coffee Certification,
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The soil in which organic coffee is grown
must have been verified as free from
prohibited substances for at least three
years. In addition there must be distinct
boundaries between land on which organic
coffee is grown and land where pesticides,
herbicides, and prohibited chemical
fertilizers are used.
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This guarantees that drift of substances
sprayed or otherwise applied on adjacent
land will not contaminate the organic plot of
land. Organic coffee certification includes
the adherence to a specific and verifiable
plan for all practices and procedures from
planting to crop maintenance, to harvest,
de-husking, bagging, transport, roasting,
packaging, and final transport.
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Along the way procedures must be in place
at every step to insure that there is no
contamination of the healthy organic coffee
produced in pristine soil with regular coffee
produced on soil exposed to herbicides, pesticides, and organic fertilizers.
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Years ago in Australia health authorities
tested regular coffee and found more than
130 impurities including residues of
herbicides and pesticides and many other
unwelcome ingredients.
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Drinking organic coffee means that you skip
having all of those bad things in your cup.
Coffee is good for you as it helps reduce the
incidence of diabetes and various forms of
cancer, Alzheimer’s and many other
conditions.
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Organic coffee does the same and you also
get the skip the impurities that are all too
often found in regular coffee. And besides
being good for you organic coffee is good for the environment.
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Organic Coffee and the Environment
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The process of growing organic coffee as
well as other organic produce is called
sustainable agriculture.
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O Organic coffee growing is sustainable
coffee production.
O Although organic coffee grown and
certified by the USDA is the result of
sustainable coffee production so is coffee
that is UTZ certified or Rainforest
Alliance certified
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Rainforest Alliance is an NGOP that works to conserve biodiversity. They seek to convince buyers to purchase what is good for the environment and good for small farmers. Their certified coffees are produced using good land use practices. Certified coffee farms meet a strict set of environmental standards including ecosystem preservation and minimal use of synthetic chemicals.
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The UTZ Certified label tells you that the
coffee came from a farm that employed
sustainable agricultural practices, good
environmental practices and efficient farm
management. UTZ Certified label is that
UTZ Certified coffee is traced from grower to
roaster.
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Before farmers learned to use crop rotation
it was common for land to be “farmed out.”
In the American Great Plains farmers rotate
corn, soybeans and alfalfa on the same
land.
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Because coffee is a perennial and not an
annual crop farmers don’t change plants
every year. But what they do is use mulch
from dead plants and other organic natural
fertilizers when needed to avoid polluting
the water table with chemicals.
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In addition they commonly plant coffee
among trees in a forest environment where the habitat is natural and self-sustaining.
