How do you make the world's most expensive coffee beans?

ByOliver.dodd

The world's finest coffee is a coffee bean "kopi luwak (Copy Ruak) "Is made from. Problems are pointed out from the point of view of animal welfare over the Copy Ruak which is low in acidity and has a unique scent.

The world's most expensive coffee is a nightmare for the animals who produce it - Quartz
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Musk cats in Indonesia and the Philippines have a habit of eating coffee. For those growing coffee, it is a dust beast which roughly coffee, but since the seeds of coffee you eat are excreted without being digested, the locals are going to coffee beans (coffee beans) I got rushed out, cleaned it thoroughly and then roasted and was drinking as coffee.


Copi Ruak which was taken from the musk of the civet cat was fermented by the function of the enzyme in the intestines of the musky cow and formed a distinctive fragrance, which was supposedly local to the people, but in the immediate When a profitable person sold the tasty coffee of Copi Ruak as a special coffee, it became treated as a luxury goods loved by people all over the world and in the heyday it cost 100 dollars per cup of coffee cup (about 10,000 yen ) Began to attach a high price that does not go down.


Originally, Copi Ruak had been trading at a high price as labor and time to collect hun of wild musk cats, but knew that Copi · Ruak would sell higher, raised a musk cat People picking up Copi Ruak began to appear.

Musk cats that are artificially raised are usually kept in narrow and dimly gauged gauges. Furthermore, despite the fact that coffee is not a staple food, musk cats want to collect a large amount of Copi Ruak, so that they can serve as fresh fruits of coffee. For this reason, musk cats kept for Copi Ruak to collect themselves in their self-injurious behavior of gnawing their feet from stress, so many die soon soon due to the injury and excessive stress is.


It is Copi Ruak which is drunk by tourists as "the world's highest coffee" in the Philippines and Indonesia, and introduced to the world by SNS, "The tourists seem to be enslaved for Copi Ruak I do not know that it is raised in the wild animals researcher Neil D. Cruise is mourning the current situation.

In recent years, about 80% of the entire Copi Ruak was collected from artificially reared musky cattle, and the background that coffee enthusiasts who benefit from lowering the price of Copi Ruak have the reality of animal cruelty That is why. Knowing this fact, coffee retailers that cancel Copi Ruak are gradually appearing, but in a survey report of the magazine "Animal Welfare" issued by animal protection groups, there are copies in Indonesia There are at least 16 farms raising musk cats for the purpose of collecting Ruak. In Indonesia, mainly in Southeast Asia such as Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, many musky cats are killing lives due to human desire for "scented coffee".

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Collecting wild musk cat copi ruak You can check the state of the Philippine coffee farm in the following movie.

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