Coffee Exchange

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We extend the notion of integrity when we buy green coffee. Whenever possible, we buy Certified Organic coffee. It is better coffee, both in terms of flavor and the social, environmental and physiological health of the communities where the coffee is grown and of the people who grow, care for and harvest the crop. Similarly, we support the Fair Trade process and sell Fair Trade coffees. We see current depressed coffee prices as a severe problem for the coffee industry as well as for coffee drinkers. The need to artificially boost income to coffee growers is one step in a long line of steps necessary to help a population that is being forced out of a way of life by arbitrarily low prices. These low prices are determined not by quality, but simply by supply and demand for the entire industry. In this process, farmers in Colombia and Guatemala, and in Kenya and Sumatra, are paid only what the going rate IS, not what their coffee might be worth. Fair Trade provides coffee farmers with credit, increased income, education, and a sense of industry support at this time of special need. Similarly, Coffee Exchange is committed to finding sources of shade-grown coffee, grown without clear-cutting rain forest and preserving desperately needed habitat for many endangered species. But there is a special place in our collective heart for the soul of the coffee industry and that is with Coffee Kids. Coffee Kids is an international non-profit organization founded in 1989 by Bill Fishbein,...

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