By Adam Pesce, Director, Coffee at Reunion Island Coffee Huffington Post January 18, 2013 Since I started in coffee over eight years ago, I would have to say that my main message to the non-coffee world would be one of respect towards the product they consume every day. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, and again, and again: coffee is one of, if not the most, labour-intensive agricultural products in the world. And we don't, as consumers, pay not even remotely enough for it, given the amount of work that goes into its production. As far as we in the first world go, I would place myself in a small, yet growing cadre of coffee professionals who regularly watch coffee develop, from seed to cherry to roasted bean to beverage. Strangely enough, most coffee farm workers don't actually drink coffee, let alone the coffee that their hard work produced. Almost, but not all, farmers are woefully unaware of what is done with the fruits of their labour once...