The Democratic Choice of Drinking Coffee

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The democratic leader is not autocratic or Laissez-faire, does not dominate or leaves all decisions up to the worker, but provides a choice.

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Of course, if you don’t like the outcome of your choice, it’s your fault, because it was you who picked it. It works like (s)elections:

As far as I can recall reading about coffee, there are a couple of dangers. The passenger in the picture above got tea. As for coffee, Tim Ebl wrote a few words about it:

Does Drinking Coffee Make You Dehydrated? Is Coffee Bad For You?

The author promotes the idea of coffee-drinking for good reasons:

An average cup of Joe contains up to 90 mg of caffeine. There are also substances like 2-Ethylphenol, quinic acid, antioxidants, and more. This combination of chemicals gives you the flavor and caffeine jolt that coffee addicts are looking for.

Coffee might keep you healthy. The polyphenols can help stave off heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. You can get these polyphenols from many veggie and fruit sources, including black, green, and herbal teas.

The article inspired me to fine-tune the idea of coffee-drinking after adjusting it to my experience.

The perfect snow shovel

I remember, when I lived in Massachusetts and a winter storm was coming, I went tot he hardware store to pick up a snow shovel. A TV crew was there, and they asked me what I was shopping for. I explained I needed a snow shovel that doesn’t break within two minutes and is light enough to work with, because we had a long driveway. I was on the evening news as a shopper, who “was looking for the perfect snow shovel.”

Funny as it is, drinking coffee contains a lot more variables than the “perfect” snow shovel that the shop didn’t even carry (made of aluminum), and its being out out of my reach at the time is what it has in common with a perfect mug of coffee.

My mug of good coffee

My readers occasionally support this site with “Buy Me A Coffee,” and I owe the with the explanation of the way I have coffee. Also, I have collected what I know about drinking coffee. I drink a mug of freshly-ground organic brew every morning from an espresso-maker and some milk.

Here is what I consider important about coffee.

1. The extent to which the beans are roasted makes a difference. The darker they are, the more they have been burnt, and burnt food is supposed to be a carcinogen. Still, the devil is in the details, and as with everything, the body has a tolerance level to all kinds of harmful materials, and it remains intact as long as its threshold is not exceeded. Also, I personally believe that some people’s metabolism needs carbon, which burnt stuff, as long as it’s consumed moderately, provides without doing any harm.)

2. Coffee contains a LOT of pesticides, which is bad for anyone. Drinking organic fixes that problem, but only as long as it’s not sprayed with some kind of (“organic”?) preservative, the kind that grocers use for extending the shelf life of organic produce¹. The same applies to tea. In this sense, the “coffee or tea” question diverts attention from an essential factor, because both coffee and tea are usually doused with pesticides.

3. As for freshness, from farm to table, coffee has a long and tedious trip to make:

https://www.blackoutcoffee.com/blogs/the-reading-room/coffee-from-farm-to-table

Coffee must be fresh, because it’s prone to becoming moldy. Mold is a known carcinogen, and good luck to finding fresh coffee; allegedly, for a truly fresh pot, the grind must be in the coffee maker within a week after harvesting. While that is not impossible, the price is much higher than the cost of coffee in the grocery store. As even fresh beans age rapidly, they are only feasible to buy and mostly available only for coffee-shops, restaurateurs or for re-packing and re-sale.

4. Drinking stale coffee is not exactly good, because tannin accumulates, which places a burden on the stomach.

5. The amount of caffeine one can take depends on the person’s needs and tolerance, and everyone’s metabolism is unique, and it also changes from time to time. As for too much caffeine, the body can get used to toxins (by adjusting its detox accordingly), and after establishing a daily routine, regularity is more important than the amount consumed.

6. Some people like their coffee sweetened. I’m not sure how many of them are aware that sugar is a million times healthier than sugar substitutes; all artificial sweeteners are carcinogens, and they possess the uncanny ability to mess up a person’s metabolism, leading to the person becoming overweight, hormonal imbalance, or some kind of poisoning. Honey is crapshoot, because it often comes from plastic combs that it dissolves, which adds to the person’s regular microplastic intake. The fearless can even use high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener!

7. Milk in coffee has also been suspected by some to cause harm, although I cannot fathom why. Milk actually contains lactose that is a mild sweetener, which can be a healthy sugar substitute, assuming it’s organic and slow-pasteurized. (“Lactose intolerance” is not exactly explained by “experts,” and it might be a cover-up for the impact of growth hormones, antibiotics, results of feeding the cows with GMO soy, injecting them with bovine “vaccines,” or the human body disliking the dead proteins and whatever else that “UV-pasteurized” milk contains or doesn’t contain).

Still, if you are worried about UV-pasteurized, wait until synthetic milk comes in:

Got GMO Synthetic Milk?

8. Using a microwave is harmful because of its radiation emissions, and it also destroys individual cells to the extent that the body cannot fully recognize the food from the microwave, which can result in the accelerated accumulation of adipose tissue and in discarding valuable, ingredients that become undigestable after being wildly shaken and gently irradiated.

9. Avoiding plastics is a no-brainer, when it comes to coffee-makers, but considering the popularity of coffee capsules and pods, it must be noted that they are usually made of plastic, which is increasingly toxic, when heated. Not surprisingly, Keurig, for example, is disproportionately expensive (do its consumers tend to believe that you get what you pay for?) and the brand name is projected as status symbol affluence and exceptionality.

10. For connoisseurs, coffee must be freshly ground and ideally, it must come in individual packages for each grind. That’s a long way from what I can afford, but it must be delicious! Still, if it was available, it could be disastrous for my budget:

Well, I don’t get to choose, because I have to drive 14 miles only to the nearest grocery store.

12. Coffee-makers also provide various methods of brewing, and even the same type can be drastically different from cheap and expensive machines. You can buy a cheap drip or espresso coffee-maker for $10, and the most exquisite ones go for over six grand without even being commercial-grade. Most people, like me, must settle for something decent, but affordable.

What choice is left?

Drinking coffee for me is determined by how much time and effort I want to spend on the project, what I can afford, what kind of coffee I like, and what is available for me. The “democratic” part is that I obviously can’t afford what I’d like. In terms of price, I follow my usual philosophy by consuming the best I can afford or, as I usually put it, “the cheapest good stuff.” After all, starting the day with my mug of coffee is not about coffee; it’s about the feeling of a new day and receiving a pleasant sensory experience confirming that I am still alive.

It looks like the same globalists who want to take out beauty and goodness out of the world, are going after coffee, too. Swiss banker and World Economic Forum “agenda contributor”, Hubert Keller: “The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee… Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere.” Source: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/putting-a-price-on-nature-d5fa83e9ab/:

https://wide-awake-media.com/now-the-globalists-are-coming-for-your-coffee

1. Even organic food can contain undesirable (and often unlisted) materials:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/upgrade-on-food-chinese-sources-toxicuseless