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  „Along with their four standard coffee drinks, Vietnam is noted for a rather curious concoction called 'weasel coffee'. Growers take the best beans from each crop, feed them to a weasel and then collect them again at the other end. The weasel's digestive system seems to do something magical to the beans which, she claims, makes them smoother and tastier than other kinds of coffee. (We'll hold off judgement.)“

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  „The group argues that many small farmers are impoverished by selling their coffee below market price, and large bean growers are more likely to clear cut rain forests to grow coffee beans. The group then sells raw coffee beans to middlemen called roasters in the United States who toast the beans brown. The roasters sell the beans to retail shops.“

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BBC NEWS | Business | Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee

  „World coffee prices are low because there is an oversupply of coffee, the world's second most valuable commodity after oil. Many coffee growers across the developing world have produced too much coffee which they have simultaneously released into the world market. The global supply is estimated to be about 8% above demand, according to Oxfam. This has depressed world prices.“

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  „“I was always too small to buy directly from growers,” said Dean Cycon, owner of Dean’s Beans and member of Cooperative Coffees, who has helped start five other roasting businesses and intends to keep his business small. “I don’t want to be the Ben & Jerry’s of coffee.” Cooperative Coffees allows Cycon to stay committed to his personal business philosophy and still know whom he is buying from. “It’s all about eye-ball to eye-ball respect between people doing business.”“

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