{"id":4557,"date":"2008-11-01T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/11\/now-drinking-evo.html"},"modified":"2008-11-01T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T00:30:09","slug":"now-drinking-evo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/11\/now-drinking-evo.html","title":{"rendered":"Now Drinking: [evo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago a package of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evocoffee.com\/about.php\">[evo] coffee<\/a> arrived on my doorstep. &#8220;Evo&#8221; coffee means &#8220;coffee evolved.&#8221; It&#8217;s a serious fair trade coffee group in Grand Rapids that &#8230; &#8220;Evo. It?s coffee?evolved. It?s an upside-down take on the value of life in business?beginning with offering farmers more than fair trade and going on to return every drop of pro?t to their communities. It&#8217;s simple. It&#8217;s logical. It&#8217;s a revolution. So grab a cup?change is brewing.&#8221; I am grateful for the number of visionary activists who protect local coffee farmers. So I&#8217;m happy to urge you to consider [evo].<!--more|inline--><br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"latte.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/latte.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"latte.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2008\/08\/latte.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;At [evo], we desire to see justice in the coffee industry and restoration for its farming communities. It is simply not okay to pay farmers from 14 cents (in Ethiopia) to a $1.26 a pound (fair trade), and look away as they go hungry. A little work and a little creativity and the world can change. Yet, even a better wage isn&#8217;t enough. We can do more. That&#8217;s why, at [evo] every drop of profit is returned to the farming communities.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo what does my package of Guatamalan Andres Micro Lot taste like? Very good. 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