Don’t drink or buy coffee made from poo of abused cats - it’s bitter in more ways than one

In March of 2018, a writer with Business Insider named Harrison Jacobs left New York to travel the world as their international correspondent. In a little over six months, he had visited 12 countries and decided to write about his “epic adventures.” However, according to him, “not everything lived up to the hype.”¹

Including his cup of Kopi Luwak coffee.

“Before getting to Bali, I had been told by many that I had to try Kopi Luwak, a traditional Balinese coffee considered to be the most expensive coffee in the world. Kopi Luwak is coffee made from coffee beans that have been digested and defecated by a civet cat. Balinese farmers have touted for generations that this method produces the best-tasting coffee.
Perhaps it produced better-tasting coffee when the method was first developed hundreds of years ago. When I had it at one of the few coffeeshops that produces kopi luwak humanely, it tasted somewhat bitter and overly earthy. Nothing special.”¹

However, what the author failed to realize about the coffee is that civets are intensively farmed in cruel conditions. And most coffee drinkers have no idea.