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Why Is It Important For Coffee to Be Organic?
Organic food is great way to support producers who put the health and welfare of their land and people first, such as farmers who prioritize organic over other methods of production. When purchasing organic coffee, you can rest easy knowing your beverage won’t contain chemicals used by conventional producers to create it.
Conventional coffee beans are among the world’s most heavily chemically treated crops, subjected to pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides during production. Not only do these chemicals harm the environment by seeping into water supplies and polluting air supplies and ecosystems – they also contaminate finished product such as your cup of coffee containing residues which over time may contribute to chronic illnesses.
Conventional farmers frequently clear large swaths of rainforest to enable large-scale coffee plant cultivation, creating open fields easier to tend and harvest from. Unfortunately, demolished forests leave coffee plantations exposed to wild insects and diseases naturally contained by forested habitat of flora and fauna – leaving these plants more prone to damage and needing heavy doses of pesticides for protection.
Organic farming techniques help avoid these issues by enabling nature’s own ecosystem to flourish and provide essential nutrients for plants, thus reducing harmful chemical usage while naturally controlling pests like birds and lizards. Furthermore, organic farms also support regional ecosystem preservation while keeping carbon out of the atmosphere thereby combatting climate change while safeguarding our home planet.
Selecting and drinking organic coffee not only benefits the environment but also contributes to fairer wages for farmers as well as more eco-friendly cultivation and processing techniques that protect it – so there’s no reason not to switch!
Researchers have recently conducted studies to understand how organic beans, medium roast coffee and 3-minute brewing times maximize polyphenols, chlorogenic acid and salicylic acid found in typical cups of coffee.
