Debra Feinman wrote: >I recommend flooding Starbucks with emails and letters -
let them know
that you will not buy their coffee unless it is Organically grown or
Shade grown.>

I think there is a distinction between shade grown and organically grown. Don't
let those importers off with claims of "organic," because as far as I can tell,
that just means no commercial fertilizer or pesticides were used and doesn't
tell you anything about the trees on the coffee plantations. The trees are the
habitat whose loss is affecting bird populations as more and more growers switch
to "sun coffee."

Of course, as Kelly Cassidy pointed out, a better solution might be to slack off
on the demand for coffee.

Chris Maack
Anchorage, AK
73201.3124 at compuserve.com