Bizarre | how is the expensive shit coffee produced?

Coffee is a world-famous drink, like most Chinese people can not do without tea, it can be said that people of all classes in the West can not do without coffee. In addition to ordinary coffee, in recent years, many strange and expensive varieties of coffee have become popular in the world, such as Kopi Luwak, and in Chiang Rai, Thailand, making shit-like coffee is the main means for local people to make a living. In the picture, an elephant is defecating.

Elephants must reluctantly eat a lot of coffee beans and excrete them through the digestive system. Workers collect coffee beans from elephant feces, clean them and then process them to make delicious shit-like coffee. The picture shows the feces of an elephant with coffee beans in the middle.

In the picture, a woman in Qinglai is breaking the elephant shit to find coffee beans. Enzymes in elephants can destroy the protein of coffee beans, making them less bitter and thus more mellow.

In the picture, several workers are quickly cleaning up coffee beans in elephant shit. Like shit coffee, which tastes like milk chocolate, nuts, spices and cranberries, it is popular among the upper class.

The picture shows the coffee beans picked out by Qing Qing, which look very full. Although the smell of shit is very strong, high profits still make the local industry of making shit-like coffee more and more prosperous, but the living conditions of elephants are worrying.

In the picture, a local worker is washing coffee beans found in elephant shit. Cleaning should be carried out many times to ensure the cleanliness of the coffee beans.

In the picture, the washed coffee beans are drying and look like black beans. When it comes to drying, the staff will start the next step-baking.

In the picture, a staff member is showing shit-like coffee beans. Although it does not seem to have much to identify with other coffee beans, the protein of this coffee bean has changed, and its "price" has skyrocketed.

In the picture, a foreign man is waiting to taste the shit-like coffee. The complicated process of making caffeine like shit, which sells for US $1100 per kilogram, is the most expensive coffee in the world.

In the picture, a foreign woman is tasting the coffee with an elephant serving her. Like shit coffee and Kopi Luwak, it is sought after by many people and regarded by some as a status symbol. However, in order to gain more benefits, some inhumane producers forcibly feed elephants and civets with too many coffee beans, making them suffer undeservedly.