Have You Heard Of Kopi Luwak?

My son, Jia-Wen, went for a holiday to Bali recently and came back with a most interesting story about Kopi Luwak.

He visited the factory and this is what he learnt:

There is this Asian Palm Civet called Luwak (local name) and its expertise is in detecting (and ingesting) the BEST coffee beans. These coffee beans are not digested but will pass through its intestines only to be excreted (defecated) as faeces-covered coffee beans.

The locals collect these faeces (I mean, the beans) and remove the faeces to get the prized (best ever!) beans to be made into the most expensive coffee known to mankind.

That’s how Kopi Luwak is “harvested” and presented to us! Apparently, it is delicious, but Jia-Wen did not try it!

Read this:�http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

And take a look:

�The faeces @ prized coffee beans

�Nice, huh?

�Even the lady promotes it!

�Humans do the silliest things, don’t they?
We don’t even eat it, we pass it out, and they think it’s the world’s best?

For one who picks up cat faeces (with a spade) a few times a day, I don’t find this totally revolting, do you? But of course, I throw away the litter-covered faeces!

Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2012/01/24/have-you-heard-of-kopi-luwak/

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