I love my coffee. I love it every morning. I look forward to it.
Whether enjoying it while reading my emails, or taking it to go for my morning drive to work or school- It doesn't matter where I have it, as long as I have it.
I am having some right now, in fact.
Addiction?
maybe.
As I sip away, while visiting a new-found website, I came across a book review that said this:
To bring us our daily cup of coffee, nearly 30 million farmers in more than 50 countries toil in conditions unimaginable for most drinkers. “All of the major issues of the twenty-first century — globalization, immigration, women’s rights, pollution, indigenous rights and self-determination — are being played out through this cup of coffee in villages and remote areas around the world,” writes Dean Cycon in the prologue to his new book, Javatrekker.
I look down at my coffee, and I don't love it so much. I kind of resent it. However, I only have myself to blame.
Dean Cycon is not only the author of this book, he is the founder of Coffee Kids, a nonprofit that uses donations from coffee companies to help children in coffee growing countries. And Dean's Beans, a coffee trading company that does so much more.
I read up on them. I was refreshed to realize that just maybe I can drink my coffee without guilt- if I buy it from Dean's Beans, of course.
Dean's Beans buys only shade grown coffees to support healthy environments for growers and protect critical migratory bird habitat. Their organic coffee comes only from small farmers and importers that are committed to Fair Trade.
The best part, every pound purchased from Dean's Beans contributes funds to the welfare of the coffee growers and the communities they live in.
Now that's Fair Trade!
I have no idea where my coffee comes from, or the conditions it's grown in. Maybe I should. If I buy from Dean's Beans, I will.
Now I can really enjoy my coffee, knowing that somewhere an entire community is benefitting from it.
2 comments:
I've never thought a cup of coffee would have such an impact. Sadly, because of globablization, everything we eat, drink, use would have a impact on someone or the environmentin somewhere in the world.
Same thing with Coca-Cola and of course any luxury, like diamonds, etc.
I've been unaware of the impact on coffee to the rest of the world but I've personally never been a coffee drinker. My ex-girlfriend FIENDS for it if she doesn't get it in her day. I think it's safe to say that it's an addiction.
I've just never got into the taste. Maybe it's something I'll learn to like as I get older -- or perhaps I try to avoid it because when I was a child, I accidentally got coffee spilled on me. How Freudian...
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