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winning companion says to you, actually that hamburger is not made from cows, it's made from golden retrievers, should meet. 2 2 2 2 2 2 in meeting cultures around the world, people learn to classify a small handful of animals as edible and all the rest they classify as disgusting. a doc you series about our complex relationship with animals. the great debate this week on d, w i it's germany's faber drink, and after crude oil, it's the world's most traded commodity. coffee makes many traders and roaster is rich, but growers stay poor. many are forced to give up their plantations. in tamaqua
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here, coffee drinkers tend to pay a lot, but the growers get very little courtesy vehicle producing it harms the environment . unconventional cultivation isn't the only problem. the fastest way to get organic is to cut down a virgin forest and plant coffee and it will just go crazy and then she dies. huge piles of organic waste remain. so this is a super for that right now is going to waste the beans off and travel halfway across the world. good. this plant be grown more locally and germany, diesel. this field will be coffee. this plant has a future it's time to take a hard look at how we consume and produce coffee. is there another way? ah,
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ah. you look at 1700 meters in the honduran highlands. debbie it benitez is reaping the fruits of his labor kilometers could bundle lagrano being we only picked the bright red cherries from the pin for his unlocked thumb. we leave the rest to ripen further and get him out and out of country ah, here in the hills of santa alaina, the young coffee grow or brave the sunny drought and market power. his adobe house without electricity has become a nucleus of change. his siblings, parents and grandfather also live here to save the farm. they've had to learn the new methods. david vinitez introduced after studying agriculture. when i, when laura said that of the, i don't know, maybe if he, in honduras,
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most farms had been lost. allow the worst case all mother ratliff, some communities have left her old ponds behind and cut down forest to plant more coffee. and yes, of course, that's not right. no. some we get the many abandoned plantations and fresh clear paths are evidence of the destruction or conventional sun ground. coffee is one leading cause of deforestation. every cup of coffee that's consumed destroys about 5 square centimeters of rain. forest, coffee grown in full sun brings the highest yield, which is why nearly half of the acreage and central america has been converted for this type of cultivation. another 25 percent is being converted. davi benitez does things differently when or is that of all the mrs. or guam,
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a tree with out of these tunes provide shade and on which the soil with organic materials on mateo gun. he grows his plants in the shade of the forest canopy. cafe northeast that the coffee is less stressed by the sun. my, my load i see on the plan ripens a bit slower yet, but the quality is higher than i see on buffer. metal also shaded coffee plans don't need heavy irrigation. full sun cultivation however, requires enormous amounts of water as does the industrial processing of the beans. producing just one cup of coffee require is about 140 leaders of water. a kilogram of coffee requires 21000 leaders that could just about phyllis swimming pool. after cocoa coffee is among the food stuffs, with the highest water consumption, devin vinitez doesn't waste a drop. the lower kimmie my battery and look out,
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i watched the coffee in a barrel following the villa. then i mix some of the water into the compost. the rest i used to water the farm, bella, my. it contains lots of nutrients from the cherry. poke. hello, lee. yea, daniel trent, when debbie vinitez switched to where again a growing his father was skeptical, but not any more. it wasn't lucille. this is the answer to from faith, but of the vietnam iran sisters. he lived this way for thousands of years yet dot com. okay, how could the big corporation say we can't survive without conventional agriculture? committee or not? not, i'm of the i. so dyllis i'll, as dante sort of, did he, santa is we used to use a lot of fertilizers, fungicides, insecticides, everything. the transnational corporations gave us from the out of dealing solar when we 1st switched organic farming production dropped. 50 or 60 percent boa cas
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hill, st. when burnett stabilize and is now on the upswing, hill, you it under your own, went on the per implant every year. little by little are coffee, harvest increases vocal pell mell unlike before where we'd have a good yield one year and a bad one. the next. yes, he and daniel in our pocketbooks shall davi vinitez, wants to achieve, even more. he striving to convince other coffee farmers in the region of this method. oh, here 2 in south western germany pioneering work is happening. i am. if he has he vis here it looks pretty desolate. a bunch of thistles and here are edge they made or this is amber. it's due to the weather over there, but we don't spray so we have to put up with a weeds. liam kern among the undergrowth grows their most valuable crop.
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and that unless you, when he hear that rattling inside the hod, yeah, then it's dry enough to thrash. is a scorpion, some brazen ears and flits cline have developed the regional alternative to coffee there. finally, having a break through many years and the making for among have shown 6 and my lead are making live in coffee for 26 years now not guns another, but the generation back then said no thanks. we can afford real coffee now on the so today's generation says, no, we want to ensure a healthy climate size coffee produce to conventional cultivation travels thousands of kilometer is to reach germany. growing lou pins in germany saves a lot of seo to missions in transport. and it improves the local soil. d. lupina lubin has a very long tap roots and therefore can draw from noise sources than usual. while they stretch down about 5 meters,
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me to where there's water even in these drawing. some houses over and done often isn't hawkins on it's really a plan for the future. especially in terms of the climate talk of langford, i'm in this wasn't such an issue back when the klein's 1st. we discovered this dynamic flowering ligim pleasing denying her theory auto body until the 19 sixty's dupont was the protein crop in northern germany. depending if we are embodied in my white according to the event with a cheap saw imports, it was forgotten. we started talking with rob ish, shawna, bessler, thornton, i'm how i was able to help bring it back down and i'm happy that i could have mr. about office that he thought was torn cotton ah, that lines were also keen to experiment. the 1st tried roasting them in
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a pan reached on vicinity, pop smells a bit like popcorn. most personally bonded to eve. the original idea was to make it a type of toford. i wish most arguing for though i haven't looked too enthusiastic because i thought it might go bad fairly quickly as his flight or a letter finished bed and who would buy it? ton of cove for ice here this years ago. toes who wasn't so in like it is to day. that's why we then experimented with roasting coffee from it. because even then everyone drank coffee to celebrate the good harvest. the blinds are serving homemade cake made with lupin flour along with their caffeine. free coffee . alt of latino, they're also planning to launch a new open product by the end of the year.
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it's a big day in st alena. the copy harvest is being brought to the roster. low bow unloads coffee from the ve benitez and other small holders. lowell powell is from the u. s. and his wife myra arianna powell is from this area together. they founded the contract community the initiative sells this regional organic coffee in the united states. they then use the profits to support environmental and social projects and honduras for traders. not enough farmers are not getting ahead. so is it, is it better than nothing? yeah, but is it enough? no, because he doesn't have any disposable income for me, was coffees about is the people behind in if we need to treat people with respect
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and so sometimes giving people respect, explain more for, for their normal power. was a prosecutor at u. s. immigration for 12 years, he knows the fates awaiting those who have to give up their coffee plantations and emigrate. i left my job. i just didn't like prosecuting people. right, wasn't, you know, you rather be around people helping them here. i still feel like i'm a lawyer, but the other kind of lawyer, there's a problem. my job is to fix it. with a contract initiative, the couple promotes more humane and sustainable production. they also support further education programs and fair wages. we don't to be increasing our early use by 10 percent, 20 percent every year. why not earn 5 percent and then leave 15 percent with people that actually make it happen. so i think it is greedy that is taking us to
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destruction because they were not taking care of the environment. would not they can go, especially people i don't think is is sort of thing impossible. i think we need to support people like that. the level powell collect, the harvests from the initiative, small farmers, what he sees during his trips to other plantations worries him hormone to like he timid. think that everyone who used to have traditional farms with good coffee varieties and lots of shade trees, e con, but then many started switching to conventional cultivation to ramp up production. dear bench, and that's the wrong way. proxy on my come, you know, put ales along with each benitez. the initiative wants to show the farmers that there is a better way. it may not turn a quick profit,
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but it's sustainable. with laurie ventura took over the family farm. she's had to rebuild a month ahead. i mean foster my husband used to do everything now for 4 years. it's been just me and her husband abandoned the plantation because of a nasty breast found this look molest us. impetus i'm low. larry thrust fungus hits . sometimes the fruit doesn't ripen and recount harvest would have thought of it one year. it's a good covers you. and the next day there is nothing a full full sun, cultivation and climate change weaken the plants, paving the way for the destructive fungus to spread rapidly across central america
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. since 2012, its been destroying the livelihoods of thousands of coffee farmers, including that of glory as husband who emigrated with her 6 children to the us for work. many thousands of farmers from central america attempt to that same trek every year. if they make it into the us, they usually take on unskilled labor and send their hard earned money back home to their families. of santa alaina's, 14000 residence, 2000 left their homes for the u. s. last year. david benitez wants to show those who remain how to build resilient farms stick. i think the style both on the, on the coffee, grown and shade is less susceptible to rust monger, a step by step, the farmer should make the transition to shaded cultivation on one profess
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orthodontic feel. together they draw up a plan that will help gloria ventura increase her yield. hey, sandra, had a bullet lawyer, complaint trees all along the banks of the creek law and that our motto, malaria. this will increase the humidity in the area in micro organisms and warms will do their work. alive. gloria ventura is among the ab small holders who have joined to the petrov community. they benefit from its sale system my idea of both authentic is i got to put a most coffee growers need to take out loans and what their earned goes to paying them off in the thought of in their mouth. but it's different with gotcha in the hotels but, but i'm the last we harvest enjoy the beans and so directly on the day of the yeah, i mean the effect and we make more profit as i yield the name of my benefit,
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the coffee market fluctuate greatly in the last 4 years, the farmers burned on average, less than one euro per pound, fair trade frames, and roughly one euro $0.30. through the cut russia initiative, they earn almost double that but better pay is not the only perch levied. benitez and the contractual initiative have even more ideas to benefit coffee growers. i with. ready change is also a foot in nicaragua. carol whitmeyer has traveled from the u. s. for this pile of waste. this is the cascade on the left over that we hope one day this pile will completely disappear. so this is a super food that right now is going to waste. and if we can turn that into
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nutritious food, that's the goal. carol whitmire has come to nicaragua for the coffee, cherry startup. this is our 1st visit to the facility where this, suppose it waste is being turned into a high quality product. all of that coffee. we're still a startup. we're still small. and one of our biggest challenges has been educating both consumers and companies who can back eating a whole new market for their melvin coffee. with it here by machine and dried ah, the coffee bean roads wait.
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guarded world wide and mental problem boot release methane, dominate the water. the there shows carol whitmeyer hot coffee, cherries song, a liquid. the flow tim a all the trying area got of a cell out of the coff. furniture to catch the fruit skins. under discarded electric with 11, the star by the processing just got on the study. i planted flakes by fruit sensory iraq, coffee, cherry. not been paid for that before. is new income
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area for the business. here. it in north america. in germany. ah. all available now, but the major export countries that as an ingredient. oh very much again. just to learn about the work and for the 1st time and taste why it's just amazing to nicaragua
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the yellow and red cherries for the yellow and red cherries suitable for consumption time for some experimentation in the canteen where 3 meals are prepared daily for the farms employees, so how many tortillas do you serve a day? 01500 or via for these all people for ryan permanent workers. they're testing out how dried coffee cherries taste in traditional tortillas. the new ingredient could offer some extra nutritional value. in addition to caffeine, the coffee cherry contains a lot of anti oxidants, mineral, and fiber ah,
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about the new product there for environment to add some time they drove on the river still be vacant. i mean it would have truth glue. i feel like a fruits let you know restaurants and bakeries menus with whose off which dishes you skill restaurant started from the outset. recipes. okay, we did some madeline's, we worked with this the water replacement ratios on different recipes. the bruce powder essentially with it.
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but fruit as wells. yes. a with coffee cherry flower supermarkets with dieters has many ideas on in his home country. hiring other growers farm. he's devoting himself to king garden. i from the species here. i'm people if you just grow and grow a diversity, same thing that david is doing it in the latin. mia lewis during our knowledge with the community on and avoid using pesticides environment. gender fantasy meant that so not as to these are things that farmers can apply at their
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own houses. so up is when people come here they go, i can do that with his indigenous ancestors. burn agriculture. the part of the coffee plant waste. nothing peculiar. adam home beneficial skins or discarded barrels in order when we put the coffee ourselves with fertilizer, in order to let a mobile socialist it is curious to hacking micro organisms unable to love every 30 days or 3 times. oh okay. i troubles coffee for all crops,
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but it looks good deal thing. fruits, vegetables, beans and corn. these to hector's chin strengthens the plants thing. extra le. her pin is to produce when you consumes or companies sonata. ah. has managed to drive as don doris. ah, in new methods to others, his knowledge coffee farmer is determined to his homeland the of the way example to the u. s. if any birds of course i like that same year thing, but the money had sent back here. we'll go buying food thing now. sense because
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in order to seem a gama consumer, we produce what we consume. well, there is some hurricane new harrison. the nettle not dreams as to have a farm school where growers can come here. but what we do, i cannot oh, now there is a man who inspires others and shows when it comes to coffee, there is another way, ah ah, with
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