Coffee Not Essential For Life

• 04.12.2019, 17:30
•  Europe,  No-politics

independent.co

Switzerland began storing emergency reserves of coffee between World War One and World War Two in preparation for potential shortages, as reported by BBC. 

It continued in subsequent decades to combat shortages sparked by war, natural disasters or epidemics.

It now hopes to end the practice by late 2022. But opposition is mounting.

It currently has 15,300 tonnes saved up - that's enough to last the country three months.

The government now says coffee is "not essential for life" so doesn't need to be included in the emergency reserves.

"Coffee contains almost no calories and therefore does not contribute, from the physiological perspective, to safeguarding nutrition," the Federal Office for National Economic Supply said.