Indonesian civet coffee $400 a kilo? How much does a cat shit coffee cost?

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Civet coffee is made from the droppings of Indonesian coconut cats (a kind of civets), so it is called "civet coffee", also known as "Kopi Luwak" (civet coffee).

Coconut cats are distributed in southern India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and southern China. It is a nuisance to the locals in Sri Lanka because they defecate in the ceiling and indoors, often making noise and disturbing people's dreams.

Indonesian coconut cats mainly feed on coffee beans. After completing fermentation in their stomach, they destroy proteins, produce short peptides and more free amino acids, reduce the bitterness of coffee, and then discharge feces as the main raw materials.

As the coffee beans cannot be digested, they will be excreted, and after washing and baking, they will become civet coffee. It's about 400 dollars a kilo.

Coconut cats are omnivores. Apart from eating seeds, they also eat insects, snakes, birds, amphibians and reptiles, so the feces emitted by really wild coconut cats will be mixed with all kinds of substances.

Local farmers in Indonesia catch coconut cats and feed them coffee beans to make civet coffee. But it is said that there is a difference between artificially cultivated and natural ones.

The production of civet coffee is very small and very expensive. And the land for sale is even less. It is rare even in Indonesia of origin. Therefore, most of the civets sold on the market are artificially raised, and their flavor is naturally different from the most primitive and natural wild civet coffee.

How on earth is the captive civet coffee made?

The main production site of civet coffee is Indonesia, but animal welfare agencies have warned that the civet, which is responsible for producing coffee beans, lives in an environment similar to that of a chicken cage in a chicken factory.

Farmers who produce civet coffee catch wild civets and put them in small cages, where even newborn families are rigidly separated, and then continue to give coffee seeds. It is said that there are at least tens of thousands of civets living in this harsh environment.

Civets are common in the area, and some have been added to the list of endangered species, depending on the species. For example, bear beaver (Arctictis binturong), but it is said that endangered bear beavers can sometimes be seen at coffee bean production sites.

However, people who get three meals by producing civets coffee beans do exist. If priority is given to animal protection, the price of coffee beans will certainly be even higher. As a result, in the end, it should still be the animals that do not speak.

In the following film, the civets move around in their cages with obvious abnormalities. If wild civets are kept in small cages, loneliness and melancholy can lead to mental disorders.

It is said that civets are generally kept for three years. During the 3-year period, he ate coffee beans, so he lacked the necessary vitamins and nutrients. After 3 years, his health deteriorated greatly.

Most Indonesian farmers sell these artificial coffee beans as natural coffee beans excreted by wild civets in the forest.

If you buy it locally in Indonesia, you can buy cheap civet coffee beans. However, in the process of circulation, prices will rise gradually.

When you look at some Asian countries from the point of view of some advanced countries, they usually feel that the place where they live is very dirty. And if you look at Japanese pets on the basis of their pets, I'm afraid not only civets, but even cats and dogs will feel sorry for them.

I think people see things differently because of differences in habits and cultures. This problem may not only be a matter of circulation, but there is no way to blame the local people simply from the standpoint of animal protection. However, a little more knowledge may be good for animals.