Why don't you drink Indonesian Kopi Luwak no matter how much it costs? The cruel truth behind Kopi Luwak!

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Most people have heard of it, if not drunk it,

But when it comes to cat poop coffee,

slowly surfaced,

Some cruel truths are coming to light.

The production process of "cat shit coffee" is unacceptable!

Netizen: I really can't drink it. It's too cruel!

Cat poop coffee, also known as: Civet coffee, is one of the world's expensive coffee It is eaten by civets mature coffee fruit, pulp is decomposed into coffee beans can give a unique flavor of amino acids, and coffee cherry core (that is, coffee beans ~) due to can not be digested, accompanied by these amino acids and intestinal mucus, after civets intestinal fermentation of coffee beans, reduce the original bitter taste, there is a unique flavor, there is a sweet people can not stop.

Profit-seeking merchants were no longer satisfied with the sporadic production found in the jungle. In order to obtain high-priced civet coffee beans and increase production, a special cat feces coffee industry was born.

Keep the civet in captivity and feed it berries only. Cruelly confining the civets to small, dirty cages causes the civets to break down from extreme irritability and depression.

Civets are actually extremely freedom-loving creatures. They are kept in captivity. They once went on hunger strike, but merchants did not hesitate to abuse cats for feces in order to obtain high-priced civets coffee.

Like foie gras, this food was originally a gift from nature, but evil profit-seeking businessmen began to find other ways to make more profits. He ordered local natives (from Sumatra, Java, and Survish) to imprison civets in cages and stuff them with coffee beans to get more cat poop coffee.

Forcing them to eat and pull and pull and eat

Catching a civet, throwing it into a cage, feeding it, feeding it, feeding it…This was undoubtedly a disaster for a civet that was originally timid and loved freedom.

Compulsive monogamy also causes stomach problems and malnutrition in many civet cats. Many of the civet's soles have severe exposure injuries due to prolonged friction on sharp wire, and most of the tissues soaked in feces and urine are inflamed and ulcerated due to no treatment. Cage not only drives animals mentally mad, but also torments them physically.

Some mentally fragile civet cat due to such severe stimulation, mental breakdown hunger strike and death is not a few. Those dying and losing their value will be eliminated directly and become furs and flow into another dark market. From the moment they entered the farm, from birth to death, there was no ray of hope.

Investigator Neil D'Cruze:"Some of the cages are really small, you could call them rabbit sheds. There's shit everywhere. Civets can only soak in it. Some civet cats are emaciated and eat a diet restricted to coffee cherries (the fruit wrapped around coffee beans); others are fat because they can't move freely. D'Cruze says some are addicted to caffeine.

--National Geographic magazine

Controversy over animal cruelty

Although civets are delicious for gluttons, a BBC investigation recently pointed out that some civets appearing on the market are advertised as coming from "wild civets", but in fact Indonesian manufacturers keep civets in grid cages, which is suspected of cruelty to animals.

Teguh Pribadi, founder of the Indonesian Civet Coffee Association, insists that mislabeling Indonesian civet coffee from wild civets is not common and may be an isolated case.

Real cat feces coffee due to its very low yield, coupled with the initial market is huge, rare for expensive, selling price is also reasonable, a catty of civet feces can only extract about 150 grams of coffee beans.

Lin Yijun, who once housed civets, believes that farmers and civets are mutually beneficial symbiosis. Civets are their economic source. If they abuse the tools of making money, the civets are in poor health and the quality of coffee beans produced must be poor, and farmers 'income will be affected.

She said that the captive method is convenient for farmers to harvest coffee beans regularly, and the captive site is mostly a natural space where the civet can move freely; while the coffee beans excreted by wild civet cats often take time to find, and when farmers find them, the coffee beans have been overfermented and the quality is not good.

In addition, due to the scarcity and high price of civet coffee, the news of "counterfeit flooding" has been heard from time to time. Indonesian media recently reported that Indonesia has a kind of cat similar to the civet, Indonesian called "Musang", because the price is cheaper than the civet, eat more than the civet, often bought by coffee industry to feed, and then discharged coffee beans mixed with civet coffee sales.

Is coffee really that good?

Authentic cat feces coffee compared to ordinary coffee, looks very thick, like syrup, smells strong sweet smell, in terms of taste, less sour and bitter ordinary coffee but more astringent and earthy smell, there is a strange feeling of returning to sweet, due to the influence of consistency, from the taste is quite smooth.

How to tell civet from civet

From the above image we can clearly distinguish the civet and civet in appearance (eyes). Nose. The mouth is different. It's hard for ordinary people to tell.

How to identify real civet coffee?

Real civet coffee (cat poop coffee) green beans Note its shape: clean, easy to disperse.

Civet coffee characteristics: there is usually a smell reduced as if fragrant, stinky tofu many people also feel very fragrant, not to mention civet. The sugar is consumed, and the bitterness is reduced after baking. Moreover, civets eat all kinds of beans, unlike civet cats. They don't know why they eat which beans and don't eat them. They carry a large plate over and eat five or seven beans before they eat them. They have to change another plate. It's quite difficult to serve. With civet cats, the yield is guaranteed. Civet out, food variety miscellaneous, eat more, stool viscosity is good, it is easier to have a large stool pegs.

This is why many people use civet cats instead of civet cats to make coffee called cat poop. Same size, easy to fool. On the contrary, some people on the market think that it is not a large piece of poop coffee, not a real cat poop coffee, and some people think that without poop pegs you still feel like there is no anti-counterfeiting label. So if you don't sell civet coffee at a high price, some people will think it's fake.

Besides, cats 'digestive systems were too fragile.

Intestine is short, peristalsis is weak, especially mesentery is fragile.

Therefore, cat intestinal infarction, anal prolapse are common diseases.

Cat poop coffee, but behind it is the tragic life of cats…

No wonder netizens boycotted cat poop coffee! No business, no harm!

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