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Cat poop coffee is a kind of coffee made from coffee beans excreted by civet cats. It is also the most expensive coffee in the world. The price per pound is as high as several hundred dollars. In other words, a round of calculation, cat poop coffee below 200 yuan in China can basically be sentenced to death. So, should it be worth it to pay two grandpas for a cup of cat poop juice?

Should it be worth it to pay two Mao Grandpa for a cup of cat poop juice?

Cat poop coffee, made from coffee beans excreted by civet cats, is also the most expensive coffee in the world, costing hundreds of dollars per pound.

the most expensive coffee in the world

This coffee originated in Indonesia. In the early 18th century, the Dutch established coffee plantations in the Indonesian colonies of Sumatra and Java, and prohibited the locals from picking and eating their own coffee fruits. Indonesian locals accidentally discovered that civet cats love to eat these coffee fruits and will expel the beans intact when they defecate.

Indonesian locals accidentally discovered that civet cats love to eat these coffee fruits

Civets will only eat the sweetest and ripenest beans, which is a natural selection in itself, and secondly, locals have found that these beans are fermented in cat stomachs to produce coffee that tastes better than ordinary coffee!

So the question is, why do you want to boycott cat shit coffee?

The delicious cat feces coffee gradually became famous and became a hot commodity in the international market. So the question is, why do you want to boycott cat shit coffee?

Reason 1: Cruelty. Civets are nocturnal animals that inhabit jungles and eat very little. Coffee beans produced by wild civets are very rare, and only artificial breeding can obtain more cat feces coffee. The Guardian's Tony Wilder reported the truth: "The shy little animals are kept in small, dirty cages, forced to eat nonstop, on the verge of collapse, biting each other, biting their legs, bleeding and dying one by one."

80% of cat poop coffee on the market is fake.

Reason 2: 80% of cat poop coffee on the market is fake, and many coffee companies label regular coffee as "cat poop" to drive up prices. Even if it came from real cat feces, it was basically a product of industrial production. It was almost impossible for it to be original.

Civet coffee beans

Reason 3: Coffee beans fed to civet cats are not screened and are not excellent beans!

Reason 4: Cat poop coffee has led to a bad atmosphere. Elephant poop coffee, squirrel poop coffee, bird poop coffee have all come out, and the methods are the same cruel.

Reason 5: Coffee bean quality artificial screening technology is so mature, do you really think it is not as good as cat's cake?

In short, rather than being fooled by these marketing tactics, buy a cup of coffee that really cares about quality!