Have You Seen How Great Organic Coffee Can Be?

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Have You Seen How Great Organic Coffee Can Be?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

So, let’s take a quick journey through the definition of organic and what this means for organic coffee and other organic products.

1) No synthetic chemicals or pesticides are allowed to be used to cultivate certified organic crops.

2) Organic certified products can’t use unnatural, genetically engineered crops or animals.

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

4) The term “certified organic” is a little tricky. In this case only 95% of the ingredients need to be certified organic, the remaining 5% have to be on the USDA approved list and can’t be available in a non-organic form.

5) The USDA organic logo may be displayed on any 100% organic or “Organic” item.

6) If an agricultural item, such as coffee is labeled as organic it must not be treated with disgusting fertilizers like sewage sludge.

I’m not trying to bore you with boring organic labeling information, but you need to know what you’re dealing with “organic” products. I know you may be wondering when we’re going to get to the organic coffee, we’ll here we go. Seeing as how coffee necessarily only contains “coffee”, organic coffee blends are more than likely 100% organic, if they are only 95% the other 5% of the items must be printed on the product information panel.

You may be pondering, “who has time to worry if my coffee was grown without chemicals?” well here’s a few reasons:

1) I more than likely don’t want to drink coffee that was treated with sewage sludge, do you?

2) In the USA, genetically mangled products don’t have to be labeled as such, so the only way to know if your coffee was not genetically engineered is to purchase organic coffee.

3) If you don’t like the buzz of real coffee then only drink organic decaf. coffee, or don’t drink coffee at all. Typical decaffeinated coffees are decaffeinated utilizing carcinogenic organic solvents such as methylene chloride and ethyl acetate. Organic decaf. coffees are decaffeinated by a water process. There is epidemiological evidence to suggest that consuming conventional decaf. is associated with an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

4) Pesticides and herbicides are lethal in high doses. Most coffee is grown in primarily poor places in the world, and a lot of these farmers are unable to understand herbicide and pesticide warning labels, resulting in erroneous preparation 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. I haven’t even explored all the environmental havoc that is caused by just manufacturing the pesticides and herbicides.

In conclusion, there is the naturalness factor. Farmers growing their crops organically must pay extra special attention to their crops to ensure they are not destroyed by insects. Whatever your ideas on organics, give organic coffee a thorough investigation before you dismiss it completely.

By now you’re probably wondering, “where can I get this delicious 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!

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