[TN-Bird] Re: Shade-grown coffee
- From: "Charles P. Nicholson" <cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:25:34 -0400
Charlie's, Dev's, and Daniel's comments on this topic are all true.
Unfortunately, as with untold number of other consumer items, as long as
there is such a large price difference between the cost of shade-grown
coffee and regular coffee, shade-grown coffee will remain a niche market
item, consumed by only a small fraction of the "71 million Americans who
consider themselves birdwatchers." Just look at the success of the lil
ole store out of Arkansas (again, no brand names here) if you think
price is not important to the great majority of Americans.
Chuck Nicholson
Norris, TN
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Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: Shade-grown coffee
I join Dev in thanking Dan.
Those of you who KTOS was happy to host for the spring 2003 meeting saw
a lot of strong evidence for the benefits of shade-grown coffee from
Chan Robbins, one of the most important ornithologists of the latter
half of the 20th century.
A friend of mine has lived in Ecuador for 2.5 years. He reports that
shade-grown coffee is significantly more likely to be fair trade, as
well, adding human and social benefits to environmental. IMHO, it's
also more likely to be higher quality than the other stuff. Since
Wallace doesn't like me saying bad things about brand names, I won't
make fun of the big 'ole blue can of environmental harm and low-quality
mornings that my mother used to drink from in the morning. But it's at
the same level, in my opinion, as the Clydesdale beer and the yellow M
burgers.
Janet McKnight, the new "Snack Czar" for KTOS has started offering only
shade-grown coffee at our meetings.
Charlie
--- John Devereux Joslin <jdjoslin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Dan, for raising this important issue once again. Only about
> 20 million pounds of shade-grown sold--out of 13 BILLION pounds per
> year around the globe
> really is a drop in the bucket (and over 4 billion in the U.S.)! I
> certainly
> hope we do start to flex our bird-friendly muscles.
> Also I didn't know that shade-coffee plantations were the most
> bird-friendly
> and biodiverse agricultural land type.
> --Dev Joslin
>
> Daniel Moss wrote:
>
> > In the latest Audubon magazine, there's an article by Paul Tolme
> on shade-g=
> > rown coffee and it's importance to conserving bird (and other
> wildlife) hab=
> > itat. Here's the link:
> > http://magazine.audubon.org/features0408/mexico.html
> >
> > I've pulled out a few paragraphs that I thought were interesting
> and drive =
> > the point home:
> >
> > "For Americans, who consume a third of the world's
> coffee=E2=80=94300 milli=
> > on cups a day=E2=80=94an important choice is brewing: Continue to
> drink cof=
> > fee without considering how it is grown, or deliberately seek out
> brands th=
> > at are grown in ways that protect migratory birds and other
> species. "
> >
> > "Shade-coffee farms shelter more birds than any other
> agricultural landscap=
> > e; only untamed tropical forests have greater diversity."
> >
> > "For now, shade-grown coffee is still a niche market. Roughly 19
> million po=
> > unds of Rainforest Alliance=E2=80=93certified coffee, and an
> additional 3.7=
> > 5 million pounds that is certified Bird Friendly, were shipped
> this past ye=
> > ar. Those are collectively but a drip in the carafe of global
> production=E2=
> > =80=94roughly 13 billion pounds a year. One explanation is that
> conservatio=
> > n-minded coffee drinkers "haven't yet flexed their muscles," says
> Wille. "I=
> > f they do, their potential to change the coffee business is
> tremendous." To=
> > be sure, the 71 million Americans who consider themselves
> birdwatchers rep=
> > resent a huge, untapped market."
> >
> > I hope that all Tennessee coffee-loving bird watchers have flexed
> their buy=
> > ing power and switched over. The price is a little higher, but
> well worth i=
> > t!
> > =20
> > Daniel Moss
> > Clarksville, TN
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