Whats wrong with coffee that isn Fair-Trade, shade-grown, or organic?
Almost all coffee that isn’t Fair-Trade, shade-grown, or organic exploits workers and our environment. A massive crash in world coffee prices has pushed millions of farmers into poverty and is causing problems such as malnutrition and loss of family farms in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and increased drug cultivation in Colombia and Peru. Intensive coffee farming has also caused major environmental destruction- such as pollution and loss of critical songbird habitat- through heavy deforestation and use of chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.
