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The US Is the world's second
biggest importer of coffee.

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It is a very labor intensive crop.

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It can take three to four years 
for a plant to bear the kind of fruit

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we would roast and grind.

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But the two people 
typically paid the least in the chain

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are the farmer and the barista.

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Learning about coffee is about learning
where your dollar goes.

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We follow one of those chains
from Michigan to Yemen.

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CONFLICT COFFEE

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Hello. Hey, how are you?

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What would you recommend today?

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You want something with cream or no cream?

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A little cream--

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Go with the [...]

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So, everything for here, right? Yes, sir.

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A human has, a bunny is
a coffee Mogul in making

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in 2017. He opened his
first shop in Dearborn,

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and is now branching out to two locations.

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One across town and another in New York.

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He's not selling your average American
style. Filtered coffee, though.

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It has two bunnies. Coffee
beans are from Yemen.

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Good guys.

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Thank you. We gonna make
one son and one juvenile.

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Okay, Wilson, and I'm going to
use the medium roast with the

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Mm. Mm, for the Jubilee we use.
Light roast, medium, roast,

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coffee house, Ginger. Cinnamon.
Cardamom God. It's like

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special mix. So, this is like
the gateway drug into Yemen. Yes.

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It's like Bridge doesn't have
sugar, but yemeni coffee is famous.

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It has natural Sweetness in it

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and I take my coffee with sugar every
morning, but I can drink this without sugar,

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good.

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That's to gonna change your mind.

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These coffee beans are sweeter because
they're grown in the highest mountainous.

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Regions of the country.

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Why is coffee so important for
um, flaming first is our culture.

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We drink coffee everyday.

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It's also open Yemen
to the other countries.

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So when they start shipping to
different countries people, they

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read more about Yemen,
they want to visit them.

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And they want to see what's
different about you, man.

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How old were you? When you
had your first cup of coffee?

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So my mom, she told me when I was a kid,

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I had two things coffee and
a spicy. Since the, if the

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Something wrong with this baby. Yemen,
may have been the first to drink coffee,

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nearly a thousand years ago, when it exported
it, out of a famous Port called mocha,

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but, colonialism conflict and the
rising popularity of coffee crops.

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Elsewhere, overtook it

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and has a bunny left home in 2011,
but his brother still back in her has

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running the family's coffee Farm. Hello.

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Hello salaam alaikum.

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Huh?

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Look.

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How did she get in trouble?
They'll try to give me a hug

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and it's almost 45 years,

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a rebel militia based in the north. The
houthis has been fighting with a coalition

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backed by the Saudis for control.

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The Coalition blocked.
Most imports from coming in

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and the fighting has made life
in the Region's poorest country.

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Hell more than 100,000
people have died so far.

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From airstrikes famine and rampant disease

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and exporting. Anything amid. All of
this chaos is sometimes, impossible.

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It's cheaper to attempt
this only once a year

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and the only way to keep the beans fresh
is to roast and grind them in the US.

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You must really believe in this yemeni
coffee. Yes, first, I believe in our brand,

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I believe, in our yemeni coffee beans, as
one of the best companies in the world.

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Also, I believe in myself.

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I didn't listen to anyone. I just said

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I spend all saving, I have 41k, a
break it down. I guess I use it.

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I use all my credit card.
I use all the money I have.

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So everybody will be your crazy

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when people first hear the word
Yemen, they think of a current War.

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Bloodshed,

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but to you, Yemen, signifies
something else. It's not in my life.

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It's my birth place.

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I stopped watching news, actually, especially
ones come to him. And it's just said,

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I'm fired right here,
and I can't do nothing.

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It's just, I can't control my
emotion. I can't control myself.

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It's bothering me from inside.

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Oh, my family. So there I have
my sister said she was sick

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and because it was no hospital in
here, man. It is no doctors normal said

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she was away in the way and because

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they take her to the hospital and they
said, they didn't do nothing for her.

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So they send her back
home and she get worse.

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They take her back to the
hospital. She didn't make it.

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Do you ever feel guilty

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that you're here and there?
They're back in a war zone.

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Sometimes I feel guilty because I'm not
next to them. Family is very important.

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Other side, when I
found not guilty because

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at least I'm here to
support them to help them.

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If all of us stuck there, you
don't know what's going to happen.

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What are your hopes for a better? You

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this war has to end.

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This is first second. We have
to be all yemeni together.

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What are you thinking about?
I just wanna get emotional.

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That's why I'm yeah.

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It just said I was crazy about me.

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When I remember those people as
Nana, they fight. It's not just,

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it's really bad.

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Okay, if we're not, not gonna do nothing,
nothing gonna change.