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Stuff Happens Video: The Most Dangerous Drink in the Rainforest

Thu Sep 18 12:30:00 EDT 2008

stuff happens video: the most dangerous drink in the rainforest

What is the most dangerous drink in the rainforest? The first thing that comes to mind may be murky river water. Or maybe you think of acid rain. The answer is neither of these things. Believe it or not, the most dangerous drink is coffee.

In this exclusive online clip from Stuff Happens, Bill Nye explains that the way coffee is increasingly being grown, in the open sun on monoculture farms, is bad for both the ecosystem of the rainforest and the coffee beans themselves. He takes us through the many steps of coffee production and explains why the most expensive coffee in the world is first fed to a small weasel-like animal that inhabits the rainforests of Indonesia.

Join Bill Nye and find out what has to happen to bring a hot cup of coffee to your breakfast table and what you can do to ensure that drink is environmentally friendly and sustainably produced in this online clip from Stuff Happens.

For more behind-the-scenes looks at your breakfast, check out the Stuff Happens Premiere Episode: Breakfast.

 
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