A report from The New York Times about a shortage of black tea in Britain, due to shipping delays, dues to container ships avoiding the Red Sea [not red tea!], due to Houthi attacks, themselves connected with the unjustified suffering Israel inflicts upon Gaza civilians, in a war induced by the 07 October Hamas atrocities…
Just read in the 150th anniversary issue of Nature that the South African Government had agreed to a share of the rooibos tea profits be reversed to the aboriginal San and Khoi communities. Following a lengthy debate on whether or not rooibos tea was in use before European settlers invaded the area. I cannot remember when I started drinking rooibos but it may have been connected with reading my first book of the delicious Mma Ramotswe and the №1 Ladies Detective Agency series…! Which author, Alexander McCall Smith is a self-declared tea addict. (Since the story is located in Botswana, I have no idea whether or not tea is exported from this country and if the benefits reach the local communities.)
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