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CoffeeLucas Freschi
Troy Carrington
Adam Nathaniel Dykman-Rosenberg
Why?
• A market stimulator• Commodity• Import and export of many nations• Provides jobs for the global community
The United States
• Major importer of beans• 54% of Americans drink coffee daily• Hawaii is the only State that produces coffee• Billions of dollars a year go to coffee related causes in
the United States
Environment
• Conventional farming of coffee beans= BAD• Grown in the tropics and developing countries• Deforstination• Habitat depletion• Fertilizers and insecticides
Culture
• Provides jobs in developing nations• Not always good jobs• Helps bring capital into emerging economies such as
Brazil• better living conditions
Views
• Most coffee is grown legally• Some illegal coffee farms• Unsafe and environmentally harmful legal methods are
condoned
• Tea is better