I always buy fair trade or organic coffee. Now I found a good basic coffee for daily common consumption - The Zapatista Libertad coffee!
Grown by dem Zapatistas, organically, with the profits going to them.
Now every morning I can be like, yaw, Viva Zapatista brothers, while Im getting my caffeine groove on.
http://www.jonactive.free-online.co.uk/ ... offee.html
Seems even their sales network is rather guerrilla-like - I got mine from a local organic farmer when I was getting some hay and hemp seeds from him
“As part of the effort to clarify which products being marketed internationally are actually produced by Zapatista cooperatives, in August 2003 the Caracoles began to certify autonomous Zapatista coffee cooperatives. The Zapatistas contend that this became necessary because people were using their name and image in other parts of the world to sell products which were not actually Zapatista. This list therefore, only includes groups which sell coffee from known Zapatista cooperatives such as Mut Vitz, Nueva Luz del Cielo and Tatic Abuelos. Likewise there are some notable exceptions, like Equal Exchange and Transfair USA, because they sell coffee from other, non-Zapatista, Chiapas coffee cooperatives.
The issue of whether or not to buy exclusively Zapatista coffee is tricky: mainly it depends on how much the community organizational processes behind the formation of the coffee cooperatives matter to you."
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Not my favourite tastewise, but a good basic coffee.
Finns drink the most coffee in the world, and local roasted coffee is also the worst drivel in the world. Funny how that goes.
Viva Zapatista!
So if you can drink 20 cups without dying, thats free coffee for you!
