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Tuesday, April 3, 2007 12:00 AM

Is this the end of organic coffee?

Thanks to a recent hush-hush USDA ruling, your clean-conscience, fair-trade, organic latte may soon be a thing of the past.
By Samuel Fromartz

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  • Monday, April 2, 2007 08:53 PM

    Shade-grown fair trade more important labels

    With regard to protecting vulnerable tropical habitat and vulnerable Third World independent farmers, the critical things to look for in choosing coffee are that it be fair trade and shade grown. And unlike the "free trade" in the headline, the issue is "fair trade."

    This is a critical issue facing wildlife as well as humans. Sun grown cultivars favored by large-scale growers are replacing huge swaths of rain forest with row crops.

    —chickadee Read chickadee's other letters

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