According to the BBC, coffee farmers working in South America have sounded the alarm that workers -- fearing for their safety amidst surging infection rates -- have decided against participating in the coffee harvest. The situation has only been compounded by the fact that beans are fetching lower-than-average payments thanks to the dual titans of Starbucks and Nestle keeping coffee rates at all time lows. "If we cannot get more workers we could lose some of our crop. The beans will fall and rot on the ground," lamented Ángel García, a farm manager of the Santa Isabel estate in Colombia.