Gulp!
I drink two cups a day. At that rate, I'll down 34 gallons of java this year, made from 18 pounds of beans. Columbian farms have 12 coffee trees growing to support my personal addiction. Farmers will apply 11 pounds of fertilizers and a few ounces of pesticides to the trees this year. And Columbia's rivers will swell with 43 pounds of coffee pulp stripped from my beans.
Coffee is the world's second largest legal export commodity (after oil) and is the second largest source of foreign exchange for developing nations. The United States drinks about one-fifth of the world's coffee.
-- from Stuff: The Secret Lives Of Everyday Things
I drink two cups a day. At that rate, I'll down 34 gallons of java this year, made from 18 pounds of beans. Columbian farms have 12 coffee trees growing to support my personal addiction. Farmers will apply 11 pounds of fertilizers and a few ounces of pesticides to the trees this year. And Columbia's rivers will swell with 43 pounds of coffee pulp stripped from my beans.
Coffee is the world's second largest legal export commodity (after oil) and is the second largest source of foreign exchange for developing nations. The United States drinks about one-fifth of the world's coffee.
-- from Stuff: The Secret Lives Of Everyday Things
silverandcold:
hmmm coffee good! but I really don't drink that much. but still that's some good info