The areas in which tea is produced are some of the most beautiful in the world, but also some of the poorest. The contrast between wide mountain panoramas with luscious green tea fields and the sometimes miserable conditions for workers and smallholders can be striking.
What Can You do?
Go beyond the passive role of a consumer, take an interest in those that produce our tea, how they produce it & the problems they face in doing so.
This is what does it for me, stops me from feeling safe to explore the woods: the possibility of coming across one of these majestic but terrifying creatures. I know all the stats, they are more scared of me than I am of them and blah, blah, blah, but I am frightened to the point of immobility of these things nonetheless.
No so frightened though that I would shoot and kill them from the safety of inside my home as this man did. Good grief. That is what I call letting fear get the better of you.