Coffee is the world’s favourite drug. It is the world’s seventh largest agricultural export by value. The facts are staggering: on average coffee ingestion is about a third of that of tap water in North America and Europe. Between 1998 and 2000 6.7 million metric tons of coffee was produced.
What all this points to is that the world is using too much of its limited natural resources to grow a drug with no recognised medicinal benefit or nutritional value. All that land and all that water could be used to grow rice or beans or manioc or whatever ever else is suitable to the terrain and climate. But no, coffee is big business, much bigger business than growing food.
