I found this article in a Malay prayer letter:
Kopi Luwak is an Indonesian coffee that can fetch as much as $600US per pound! These coffee beans are not harvested by human hands. They are plucked by wild civets (cat-like beasts that live in places such as South Sumatra). The civet plucks only the sweetest red coffee berries from robusta coffee plants, eats fruity exterior, and then swallows the hard center. Inside the civet's stomach enzymes in its gastric juices smooth off the edges that make coffee bitter. The beans are then excreted. After the beans are excreted they are separated from the civet's dung, a further thin outer layer is removed, and the beans are ready for roasting!
Appetizing!
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The disturbing thing is not that coffee beans are harvested from an animal's waste pile, but that some coffee company spent millions of dollars on research and getting the coffee approved by the Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA); that countries such as Indonesia are continually being pillaged by capitalistic enterprises, at the expense of the local population, for the profit of the few; and people (it is scary that some of these are most likely Christians) actually spend the $600/pound for a drink that should cost a fraction of that cost. What a waste of money; what a shame. How many better uses that money could be put to, such as missions; feeding and clothing the poor; and alleviating physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering in the world. But we'd rather spend our money on some exotic poop coffee. How dishonouring to God. Shame on us all.
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