If You're Not Drinking Organic Coffee You May be Drinking Poison!

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Certified organic products are all the rage. Do you know the USDA definition of certified organic?
So, let's take a little journey through the definition of organic and what this means for organic coffee and other organic products.
1) Synthetic fertilizers cannot be used to raise certified organic crops.
2) Organic certified products can't use Frankenstein genetically engineered crops or animals.
3) To be labeled 100% organic the product may only contain organic ingredients (excluding water and salt).
4) Products labeled organic must contain at least 95% organic certified ingredients and the remaining 5% must be items otherwise not available in an organic counterpart.
5) If you see the USDA organic logo it means the product is either 100% Organic or 95% organic.
6 If an agricultural product like coffee is labeled as organic it can't be treated with nasty fertilizers like sewage sludge and the like.
Now that we have gone through the definition of certified organic we can move onto the topic at hand. Now let's talk about my passion, organic coffee. According to the definition of "organic", organic coffee must be at least 95% organically grown. Seeing as how coffee usually only contains "coffee", organic coffee blends are probably 100% organic, if they are only 95% the other 5% of ingredients must be listed on the product information panel.
You may be thinking, "who cares if my coffee was grown organically?" well here's a few reasons.
1) Synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are bad enough, but just think, sewage sludge!
2) One of my greatest comforts with the USDA organic certification is no genetically modified plants. In the US, genetically modified crops don't have to be labeled as such, so the only way to know if your coffee is not genetically modified is to purchase organic coffee.
3) For you decaf. drinkers organic coffee is your best friend. Conventional decaf. coffees are decaffeinated using carcinogenic organic solvents such as methylene chloride and ethyl acetate. Certified organic decaffeinated coffees are decaffeinated by a water process. Recent studies suggest that drinking decaffeinated coffee leads to rheumatoid arthritis. More studies need to be done to compare conventional (chemical decaf.) and water processed decaf.
4) Chemicals are bad for the farmers. Coffee is grown in many poor countries and many farmers are not able to read pesiticide warning labels, resulting in improper mixing of chemicals and toxic exposure for them and the environment.
I could go on and on about why you should only purchase organic coffee. Then there is the manufacturing of pesiticides and herbicides. The environmental damage from this alone is enough to persuade one to drink organic coffee.
As a closing thought, farmers that grown their crops organically are paying special attention to the natural needs or their crop, so the result is pampered coffee that tastes great! It's never too late to switch to organic coffee. So give it a try, you may be surprised!.

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If you want to give organic coffee a try check out www.nectaroflife.com. I wouldn't steer you wrong, their coffee is great!

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