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Zhena’s Gypsy Tea: Responsible Tea Production
5:02 pm in Food & Health, tea time by TreeHugger
Photo Credit: Kelly Rossiter From my trip to a tea plantation in Kenya
Growing tea is a tricky business. It is hugely labour intensive to collect the tea leaves, and having done a bit of tea plucking myself, I can tell you it is extremely hard work. Throughout the world tea plantation workers (mostly women) are overworked,underpaid, exposed to pesticides and herbicides daily, and suffer huge infant mortality rates. Once their plucking days are over, they generally become homeless. Zhena Muzyka of Zhena's Gypsey Tea has made it her mission to produce tea th...Read the full story on TreeHugger
