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[mary rose]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Flanagan" <gpatrick.flanagan at gmail.com>
To: "mary rose" <maryrose333 at att.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [globalnetnews-summary] Starbucks has a bitter plan


 Mary Rose,

 Coffee Berry has been found to be one of the richest sources of
 antioxidants on earth.  Its ORAC score is 16,000+.

 Google it.

 More to follow soon...

 Patrick

mary rose:  Patrick, here are my Google results.

Coffee Is Number One Source of Anti-oxidants
http://www.physorg.com/news6067.html

but article cautions that "high antioxidant levels in foods and beverages 
don't necessarily translate into levels found in the body. The potential 
health benefits of these antioxidants ultimately depends on how they are 
absorbed and utilized in the body, a process that is still poorly 
understood, says Vinson, whose study was primarily funded by the American 
Cocoa Research Institute."

The Coffee Science Information Centre
http://www.cosic.org/coffee-and-health/antioxidants

Overview and Background History of Coffee
http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:AOHxewzbvz4J:worldsavvy.org/docs/WAC2007-CQ.pdf+Number+of+acres+used+worldwide+for+coffee+production&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

Coffee beans were first grown in Ethiopia. The growing of coffee beans then 
spread through Arabia. The Dutch started large-scale importation of coffee 
in Europe.

Understanding Types of Coffee

Coffee is a small tree or shrub and has traditionally been grown between 
forest trees in the shade. Coffee farmers historically raised coffee beans 
beneath the intact forest canopy or in rustic "coffee gardens" in which a 
wide variety of trees grew. The trees provided shade for the coffee plants. 
Coffee is really a fruit. Coffee branches form white blossoms that last for 
a little more than a day. These blossoms turn into coffee "cherries" that 
are red and round. It takes three to five years for the plants to begin 
producing and that is possible only with the proper combination of climate, 
rain, sunshine, and shade. There are two main species of the coffee plant, 
Arabica and Robusta. Arabica is the higher quality bean that produces what 
most people consider to be better quality coffee. Robusta is used as an 
inexpensive substitute to Arabica. Terms Arabica: A species of coffee 
originating in Ethiopia and widely cultivated for its high-quality, 
commercially valuable seeds Robusta: The coffee plant that is commercially 
grown but whose beans are of lesser quality than Arabica beans

Shade-grown: Coffee grown under a natural canopy of trees

Sun-grown: Coffee grown in the sun with a higher yield than shade grown

Organic: Agriculture without the use of chemicals and pesticides

Coffee and Global Trade Today, over twelve billion pounds of coffee is 
consumed around the globe annually. The UnitedStates is the world's leading 
coffee importer and each year the average American consumes about nine 
pounds of coffee. The coffee industry employs an estimated 25 million people 
worldwide with more than 70 nations exporting coffee. Coffee is the world's 
second most valuable product behind petroleum. Today we are in the midst of 
a global coffee crisis. Currently the supply of coffee is more than the 
demand. The surplus is causing unemployment in all areas of coffee 
production, and increased threats to the land and wildlife where coffee is 
grown.

The Coffee Crisis:
Most economists agree the coffee crisis is due to rapid expansion of coffee 
production worldwide, especially in Vietnam and Indonesia. Since the 1990s, 
coffee production around the world has been rising faster than consumption 
As a result; wholesale coffee prices are at their lowest levels in a 
century. Coffee farmers all over the world have lost their jobs as farmland 
is used for growing illegal drugs. Over 600,000 jobs have been lost in Latin 
America alone.

The concern is that as of 1999, 26.8 million acres of coffee were being 
grown worldwide, with 4.8 million acres of that being in Central and North 
America. And as we see from the above, production has been exceeding demand. 
As I've noted previously, and we learn from the above, with prices going 
down due to excess supply of both coffee and food at that time, (1990's) 
production was swinging into poppy and marijuana-growing due to a higher 
retail price and thus more profit for growers. With the price of food 
increasing, we may see a swing back to food production.  But it seems to me 
that it would be beneficial to concentrate on growing foods that produce the 
highest amount of anti-oxidants while maintaining a pH balanced body. 
(Information taken from:  "The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Indistry From Crop 
to Last Drop - Digum and Luttinger.  http://www.thecoffeebook.com/

According to the last website viewed above, dates exceed the anti-oxidant 
content of coffee.

What appears to be one of the best anti-oxidants is the Acai Berry. 
http://www.astrologyzine.com/acai-berries.shtml
But, again this is found in S. America and must be shipped to the U.S. and 
as petrol prices rise, so will the cost of coffee.

Perhaps the best anti-oxidant for U.S. citizens when all factors are 
considered is the blueberry. 
http://www.wildblueberries.com/health_benefits/antioxidants.php

How coffee is grown whether shade coffee or sun is an environmental factor 
that affects the migratory bird population of North America dramatically. 
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Fact_Sheets/default.cfm?fxsht=1

It seems to me we have to begin to give consideration to multiple factors 
when deciding what foods are best to be grown and ingested both for the 
health of the planet and for the human family.  And, that we cannot permit 
the game
to be controlled by the global monetocracy system when making choices.

But, I am looking forward to more information from you, Patrick.

with love and in gratitude for all that you do and all that we do together.

mary rose .
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> On 2008Jul 2,, at 9:22 AM, mary rose wrote:
>
>> It appears to me that coffee, a luxury item, is currently
>> using much of the land worldwide that is needed to produce
>> nutrients, of which coffee has none. So, now millions of
>> acres will be converted to food production.
>>
>> What is needed, of course is land for subsistence farmers
>> so that all may be fed and forced migration brought to
>> an end. .
>>
>> The great American lifestyle has to go.  But with billions
>> of people addicted to it, how does that take place?
>>
>> But then, since addiction is only an "add on" disease,
>> we must first look at the primary one: "dissociation."
>>
>> So, the first step is to aid billions of people in healing
>> their Pathology of Dissociation.  Dissociation in this case
>> meaning dissociation from the Earth -- that which provides
>> us with our soul.  To be more specific, it is about the loss of
>> what Jay Earley refers to as "the basic qualities" of life inherent
>> at the beginning of our social evolution, e.g., community, natural
>> living, belonging, vitality, and equality.  These are the "feminine
>> qualities" that were lost as the dominator paradigm came into
>> play with its emphasis on technology and social structure along
>> with rationalization.  These emergent qualites, designed to give
>> the human family more power in the world, then suppressed the
>> basic qualities with great costs to our wholeness.
>>
>> The task that lies before us today is to integrate the basic qualities
>> back into our social system, thus balancing the emergent qualities
>> so that we may move forward into the future in health and wellness.
>>
>> with love and in gratitude for all that we do together.
>>
>> mary rose
>>
>> We must be the change we wish to see in our lives. M. Gandhi
>>    .
>>
>> mary rose  .
>>
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>> July 1, 2008, 4:40 pm
>> Starbucks has a bitter plan
>> http://dailybriefing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/01/starbucks-has-a-bitter-plan/
>> By Scott Moritz
>>
>> Starbucks (SBUX) can't catch a break. The coffee retailer says it  will 
>> close 600 stores, about 8.5% of its 7,100 total stores, an  expansion of 
>> the 100-store closing target it had previously announced.
>>
>> The Seattle coffee chain has been feeling the pinch of a tightening 
>> economy. In February, the company fired 600 employees and conducted  a 
>> in-store retraining program to try and revive the Starbuck  Experience, 
>> as CEO Howard Schultz has called it.
>>
>> Starbucks says it is trying to cull unprofitable stores from the 
>> franchise and expects to book $200 million of asset write-offs in  the 
>> third quarter related to the closings. Starbucks shares are down  40% 
>> over the past year.
>>
>> In April, when Starbucks warned that profits for the first quarter  would 
>> be 6 cents below the 21-cents-per-share Wall Street target,  Schultz said 
>> the turnaround plan wasn't taking hold.
>>
>> "The current economic environment is the weakest in our company's 
>> history, marked by lower home values, and rising costs for energy,  food 
>> and other products that are directly impacting our customers,"  Schultz 
>> said at the time. Schultz returned as CEO in January,  replacing Jim 
>> Donald. As a story by Fortune's David Stires pointed  out, Schultz is 
>> trying to undo the exuberant expansion effort of his  predecessor Donald 
>> who wanted to triple the number of stores to  40,000 with half in the 
>> U.S. and the rest abroad.
>>
>>
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