Is Organic Coffee Worth It?

You make your coffee every morning in a French press.  You use a Bodum model because they have high quality kitchenware and they also sell Bodum replacement carafes (you can find them at replacementcarafe.net ) – you’ve discovered the hard way that glass carafes can break easily!   You also use only organic coffee, although sometimes your friends question why you do not just buy the cheaper store brand.  “Coffee is coffee”, they say.  You’ve researched coffee and you know the answer – organic coffee is almost always better than generic store brand coffee, both taste-wise and health-wise.

Why pay more for organic coffee?  Many of the countries in which coffee is produced do not have the same safety standards as the industrialized world.  Pesticides that may be banned in some areas are not controlled in others and may be used to increase the crop yield.  To encourage farmers to grow organically, even though they bring in a smaller crop, it is necessary to pay them more.  But, the end product is coffee beans without the taint of unhealthy chemicals and pesticides.