What is Kopi Luwak? Is there any difference between civet coffee beans and masked palm civet coffee beans?

Whenever something like "shit" is mentioned when eating, people always feel "Gee, it's disgusting". Interestingly, human beings always have a strange and consistent double label on some things. if it is "Kopi Luwak", there will be more than that, and there may also be "Oh?" Kopi Luwak? You can tell at a glance that it can be very expensive! "

As a result, businessmen all over the world began to fight the doctrine of "cat shit", grasped people's curiosity, introduced the "Kopi Luwak" to their own countries, and then cut leeks for many years. In some restaurants, a cup of Kopi Luwak can sell for thousands of yuan. Is it expensive? There are always people who are willing to take out this money to try for the sake of their own curiosity.

Because the name is really too curious, more and more people need Kopi Luwak, so in order to meet the desire of consumers, everyone has killed the civets that produce Kopi Luwak, while masked palm civet, who is of the same family as Kopi Luwak, can not escape the fate of being imprisoned for "shit".

Kopi Luwak used to be the coffee of the poor, but Kopi Luwak quickly became popular around the world because of an article published in National Geographic. In the Indonesian local language, Kopi Luwak means civet coffee, of which Kopi means coffee and Luwak means musk cat.

But after a round of hype by businessmen, things that were originally completely worthless suddenly made the demand grow by leaps and bounds. But the rate at which wild civets produce coffee is too slow to satisfy people's desires, and many locals begin to catch civets and imprison them, and only let them eat immature coffee fruits (civets are omnivores). Increase Kopi Luwak production.

Later, the locals also found that in addition to civets, masked palm civet could produce coffee beans with the same effect after eating coffee fruit, so masked palm civet was also imprisoned. Coupled with all kinds of packaging and concealment, the concept of Kopi Luwak has long been changed by many people. Masked palm civet Coffee = civet Coffee.

The real Kopi Luwak is through wild civets to eat coffee fruit as dessert, so they will only choose fully ripe coffee fruit to eat, but such a natural production of Kopi Luwak is too slow. So someone came up with the idea of catching civets in the wild, trapped in narrow cages and feeding only coffee fruits.

However, due to the small number of civets in the wild, many businessmen brought in masked palm civet, who belongs to the civet family with the appearance of the civets. It should be noted that civet and masked palm civet are only animals of the same family, and their breeds are different.

It may be that a video released by PETA showed the captivity of the civet / masked palm civet, revealing that some of the so-called wild Kopi Luwak was made with the cruelty of keeping cats in a cage was taken seriously, and then people began to boycott Kopi Luwak.

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Or maybe some scientists say that the civet is one of novel coronavirus's hosts, which makes people panic. The East India Company, which has been trading Kopi Luwak for many years (not the East India Company established in 1600, but the coffee trading company established by a coffee merchant in 1987, and applied to the original East India Company coat of arms as a trademark in 1990) recently announced that they no longer sell Kopi Luwak. And it was removed from the shelves. However, most of the reasons are related to the decline in people's spending power after the outbreak and the importance people attach to the protection of wildlife.

Due to a single diet, a narrow living environment, and even living in the same space as their own feces, these small cats have more or less mental problems and even begin to bite their own tails. the open wound caused by this is exposed without treatment. But local staff also admitted that there was something wrong with the mental state of the cats and that the wounds were gnawed by themselves. Others admit that the so-called wild sources are only wild animals in captivity, and the cat poop coffee beans really picked up in the wild are actually rare.

Does Kopi Luwak taste good? Cats are forced to eat unripe coffee fruits, and these animals live in the lower forests of Indonesia.

Coffee is grown at low altitude + is processed when it is immature, and you don't believe it when you say it tastes good.

Photo Source: Internet

Source: PETA UK's YOUTUBE channel

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