A coffee bean is a coffee bean is a coffee bean, right?
No! A thousand billion times, no!!!!
Not all coffee beans are alike. Here at Ubean Coffee we sell only fair trade, organic coffee because we believe that this type of coffee is best, for three important reasons.
- Farmers.
Whether grown here in the U.S. (Hawaii) or on a farm in Brazil, the way coffee is grown matters big time to the farmer, his family and his environment.Coffee is one of the most traded commodities on the planet: growers world-wide produce more than 12 billion pounds of coffee beans every year.That’s a lot of coffee and to meet demand, farmers have learned to maximize production using man-made chemicals and pesticides. Conventionally grown coffee, in fact, is one of the most chemically treated foods on Earth, sprayed with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides – you name a “cide,” and conventionally grown coffee probably has been sprayed with it.
Synthetic chemicals aren’t used on coffee grown organically, thus sparing its growers and their families from exposure to them. The air and water in neighboring towns also doesn’t suffer from chemical exposure.
- The environment.
As mentioned above, organic coffee beans are grown without synthetic chemicals, thus saving the soil, water and air from being contaminated by them.Organic coffee is grown using only organic fertilizers such as chicken manure, compost or even the pulp from the coffee “cherry.” (The coffee bean is the seed inside the coffee berry, sometimes known as a “cherry” due to its natural reddish color.)Organic coffee farms emit less carbon than conventional coffee farms, helping to mitigate global warming.
What’s more, coffee plants prefer to grow in the shade, but hybrid plants – ones that can grow in sunshine – have been created over time.
In addition, many conventional coffee farms in South America and Asia are on land that once had lush forests upon it, ecosystems of fauna and flora that were destroyed in order to plant coffee trees. Hundreds of thousands of acres of South American rain forest have been destroyed in order to grow conventional coffee beans.
Organic coffee, on the other hand, is grown in shaded forests, which provide homes to wild animals and plants, helping to sustain soil fertility while helping regional ecosystems thrive.
- Your health.
Coffee’s known health benefits are numerous, and organically grown coffee ups the health benefits because you are not ingesting the chemical pesticides used in conventional coffee farming. Coffee naturally is high in antioxidants and coffee grown organically contains even more of them.
As a result, we urge you to consider the farmer, the environment and your own health and purchase some organic, fair trade Ubean Coffee. Find a distributor near you today!