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Coffee. It's more a verb than a noun these days. In fact, the other day I had coffee with a friend...we both had tea drinks! But we still referred to it as "having coffee." 

Coffee: a brief history, how it gets to your cup (and what do those labels mean?)

The facts say that 125 million people worldwide depend on coffee for their livelihood - and no wonder! Here's the top 10 countries in the world that consume the most coffee....nope the United States doesn't land in the top 10, but doesn't it feel like our nation drinks truckloads of coffee each day?!

Anyway, it's safe to say the world loves its coffee. But I think we might all love it a little more if we knew that 125 million people working to bring us the coffee were getting fair treatment, fair wages, fair working environment. At least I know the coffee I drink tastes better when I know that everyone involved in making sure I get that cup of coffee was treated with dignity and equality.


So today while you are, most likely, sipping your hot coffee or slurping your iced coffee think about the journey that bean took to get to you. Love your coffee? Love people more.

5 Reasons You Should ONLY Buy Fair-Trade, Organic Coffee
What is Fair Trade Coffee, and Should You Buy It?




So what to do?

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” (unknown)

Here's a few ideas:
(there's a few "best of" lists but if you compare all the lists and note that a brand or two show up on more than one list I would say that one is definitely worth trying!)



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