Is it best not to drink Kopi Luwak in the production process of Kopi Luwak? what's the harm?

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PETA Asia investigators visited many Kopi Luwak farms and villages in Indonesia and the Philippines. Indonesia and the Philippines are the world's largest producers of civet coffee. Secret investigative videos show civets imprisoned in dirty, empty cages with neurotic behaviors-including pacing back and forth, spinning frantically, shaking their heads and biting the edge of the cage. These are symptoms of madness caused by boredom and melancholy.

Experts told investigators that it is almost impossible to rely on Kopi Luwak, which is obtained entirely in the wild, but some farms deliberately label coffee taken from captive farmed civets as "wild." Two Indonesian farms told our investigators that they did not care to mark the farmed coffee beans as wild for sale. One of the farms also gave investigators a bag of samples clearly marked "wild". Many experts say that it is impossible to produce civet coffee in large quantities only by relying on wild coffee beans.

In the wild, civets often climb trees to get ripe coffee cherries, but captive civets are fed more ripe coffee cherries than they normally need. A Kopi Luwak farmer explained that civets are usually held in captivity for up to three years before being released into the wild. However, the stress of imprisonment and malnutrition can cause their hair to fall off. The worker also told PETA investigators that some civets could not survive after being released into the wild.