Kopi Luwak is inhumane coffee? Not all civets are abused!

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Yesterday, the editor saw the following picture of the news. The mood is a little complicated.

According to the British Guardian, civets (masked palm civet or cat shit) coffee beans have become popular in recent years. In order to increase the production of civets coffee beans, civets are kept in small cages and continuously fed with coffee beans. Let them produce more civets coffee beans to get a good income. So the animal protection group hopes that everyone can refuse to drink civets coffee beans in order to avoid the inhumane treatment of civets coffee beans!

But is civet coffee really good? Delicious!

The editor, who is the entourage of a high-ranking general in the army, is fortunate to be able to taste this earthly delicacy. The aroma is different from ordinary coffee beans, not like the aroma of fruit, but very much like the taste of some kind of natural perfume. There is no bitterness in the entrance. Even though the Xiaobian, a three-legged cat, had the ability to brew coffee, he still felt the sweet taste and unrestrained aroma of coffee beans. But that was 10 years ago.

But the price was high 10 years ago, and after driving up in the market in recent years, the price is even more untouchable!

The civet was coffee drunk by the poor in its early years!

The early civet coffee beans were actually animal shit coffee that no one asked for!

Indonesia is a very important coffee bean producing area in Asia, and Indonesia also needs to earn foreign exchange from coffee beans. Therefore, high-quality coffee beans cannot be bought by the local people.

Wild musk cats not only like to eat coffee fruits, but also very picky! Only pick the coffee beans, so as long as the local residents follow the civet's footsteps and pick up the coffee seeds in his feces (the civet only eats the fruit and pulls the beans out), they will be able to drink coffee beans of excellent quality but cannot be exported!

It's just that the special enzymes and glands in the civets make the coffee beans taste better! Once again, foreigners inadvertently discovered why the coffee beans drunk by Indonesian workers are so delicious, which has created the legend of the rise of civet coffee beans. It's just that he inadvertently harmed the civet.

High-quality civet coffee beans are available in coffee gardens that are kind to civets.

In order to make money, some coffee farmers in Indonesia use civet as a factory. Keep the civet in a small space, give him inferior coffee beans and feed, and let them defecate constantly, so that they can have enough Kopi Luwak to give the vast number of tourists and gluttons!

However, such civet coffee, as its name is Kopi Luwak.

As a matter of fact, there are many coffee seniors in Taiwan who planted coffee beans in Indonesia and other places decades ago, and they also know the secret of producing really good civet coffee beans.

Because civet coffee beans are delicious created by fermentation in the body of civets. Therefore, there must be a good circulation and a healthy body in his body, so that the fermented faeces will smell fresh.

Why did the early Indonesians pick up feces early in the morning? Because this kind of coffee beans will not ferment because of high heat exposure, and will not have a bad smell! And such a civet can ensure that he exercises a lot and eats natural fruits and fruits, so that his fermentation will not smell bad, and there will be no problems with the fermentation of coffee beans!

If you eat meat, eat bad varieties of coffee beans (such as Robasta), lack of exercise, the production of civet coffee beans, the fermentation condition is completely different, coffee beans will be very scary, and even have the fishy smell of animal feces. So they also mentioned that do not buy civet coffee beans locally in Indonesia! Because the locals can't afford it, they are usually shoddy coffee beans that abuse civets, and they are usually shoddy products produced to sell to tourists.

For a high-quality civet, it is necessary to make him happy before his poop is normal.

Civets that really sell coffee beans at good prices and experienced coffee farms will never be raised in cages, because this kind of civets have been under great pressure and little exercise for a long time, and there must be problems with intestinal digestion, and this kind of fermentation must be bad!

So such civets can either be raised completely in an open way, encircle a large area of land, and then plant enough coffee fruits for them to eat, so that civets will not go to find meat, ferment normally, and pick them up in the morning.

If there is no way to enclose a large area of land, we will also give them good beans in a house-style dormitory, so that they can have enough exercise in the house, and the beans will be fermented well!

In fact, not all civets are abused!

Of course, we do not want all civet coffee to be boycotted as soon as the media reports! That would also hurt a lot of good civet farmers.

Just like Taiwan's Pearl Milk Tea reported the incident in Oolong in Germany, it obviously worked very hard, but it was inexplicably boycotted.

In fact, when we promote the so-called coffee beans that will not be exploited, there are actually many aspects that we, as middle promoters, should pay special attention to. We should also pay attention to not only the income of farmers, but also whether consumers are exploited and whether the environment is destroyed.

In retrospect, at least the editor believes that not all coffee farmers should continue to produce coffee beans. Coffee farmers who are unable to improve their production skills, whose producing areas are not suitable for growing coffee trees, and who do not have the idea of improving their ability and quality should be converted to other crops through appropriate guidance.

We also believe that as long as willing farmers are viciously exploited, or coffee farmers who want to transform but are oppressed by the environment, is the focus of our efforts to help.

We are willing to support more than just coffee beans called Fair Trade! If you can buy directly from farmers, manor grade, and get recognition from the side of the International Cup, we are also willing to cooperate with them at a good price.

However, in the process of moral sales, we also need the cooperation of producers to establish a good cycle, so that the resume of planting can be clearly and completely presented, and cup testers can be evaluated and graded, so that good goods can enter the market efficiently and be purchased by more people, so as to avoid the monopoly of the purchasing power of middlemen, otherwise only through the so-called conscience and the concept of operators. It will allow farmers to survive for a while, but it is hard to avoid the sacrifice of another enterprise or NGO that originally had a conscience but later changed its mind.

This is also the idea that we hope to support, we also hope that we can agree with the direction we do, after all, fair, should not be just a monopolized brand!