Cat Droppings Coffee: Is It Ethical and Worth the Price?

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A niche corner of specialty coffee is built on a surprising chain of events: beans that travel through an animal before reaching a roaster. Marketed as luwak coffee, kopi luwak, or civet coffee, cat droppings coffee is both famous and controversial. The story is memorable, yet the real questions are practical, how it’s produced, why […]

Civet Cat Coffee: What It Is, How It’s Made, and Ethics

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Interest in rare coffees keeps growing, and civet cat coffee (often called kopi luwak) draws attention for one reason: it begins with an animal selecting ripe coffee cherries in the wild or on farms. After the cherries pass through the digestive system of an Asian palm civet, the beans are collected, cleaned, dried, sorted, and […]

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