All About Good Coffee

So, let’s take a little trip through the definition of organic and what this has to do with organic coffee and other organic products.

1) Synthetic fertilizers cannot be used to grow certified organic crops.

2) No genetically manipulated plants or critters can be used in certified organic products.

3) To be labeled 100% organic items may only contain organic ingredients (excluding water and salt).

4) Items labeled “organic” must consist of a minimum of 95 percent organically produced components (excluding water and salt). Any remaining product ingredients must be comprised of non agricultural components approved on the National List including non-organically created agricultural items that are not readily available in organic form.

5) If you see the USDA organic logo it guarantees the product is either 100% Organic or 95% organic.

6) If an agricultural product, in this case, coffee is labeled as organic it wasn’t be treated with disgusting fertilizers like sewage sludge.

I’m not trying to bore you with mindless organic labeling facts, but you need to understand what you’re dealing with “organic” products. Now that we have gone through the fine points of organic certification we can move onto the topic at hand. Since we are dealing with coffee, you can be almost completely confident that 100% of the beans are organic in an organically grown coffee.

You may be saying to yourself, “who has time to worry if my coffee was grown organically?” well here’s a few reasons:

1) Regardless of what you feel about standard farming practices, can you imagine slugging down non-organic coffee treated with sewage sludge?

2) There’s the whole Frankenstein gene thing. I don’t want my morning fix to have gorilla genes spliced in just so the beans can have less of a twang.

3) For you decaffeinated coffee drinkers, organic coffee is your best friend. Standard decaffeinated coffees are processed utilizing carcinogenic organic solvents such as methylene chloride and ethyl acetate. Organic decaf. coffees are decaffeinated by a water method. There is epidemiological evidence to suggest that consuming conventional decaffeinated coffees is associated with an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

4) Pesticides and herbicides can be lethal in high doses. Coffee is cultivated in primarily poor places in the world, and a lot of these farmers are not able to read herbicide warning labels, resulting in improper mixing of chemicals, and therefore, toxic exposure for them and the environment.

I could ramble on about why you would want to only purchase organic coffee. Then there is the production of pesticides and herbicides. The environmental destruction from this alone is reason enough to persuade one to buy organic coffee.

As a final thought, farmers that raise their coffees organically are giving specieal attention to the intrinsic needs of their coffee, resulting in pampered coffee that tastes great! I don’t care if you think I’m just trying to put forth my agenda, or promote your good health, please give organic coffee a taste and pass the word.

By now you’re probably wondering, “where can I get this miraculous Organic Coffee you speak of?” We’ll it just so happens that I own Nectar of Life Organic Coffee Company, so click that link and head on over!