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Originally Posted by dizzybint
This is news to me.. Ive never heard of this practice using a cat like animal the civet to make coffee with the droppings...I received this in an email today...I wonder what shocked this man Tony so much in the ten years since he introduced the coffee to the UK...
Trapped and caged in cramped conditions. Force-fed, gnawing at its legs and passing blood in its urine. These are the conditions that the civet, a small cat-like mammal in Indonesia, are kept in to produce the world's most expensive coffee. [1]
At £60 a cup, civet coffee is made from collecting the droppings of the wild civet who eat and partially digest the coffee beans. But an increase in demand has led to battery-cage conditions with animals kept in tiny spaces to mass produce the coffee for the global market.
Tony Wild is a coffee expert who introduced the coffee to the UK ten years ago. Now he is calling on retailers to stop stocking the product, shocked by what the industry has become.
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It isn't surprising to me that Harrods would sell this. Does Harrods have a reputation of selling anything that is fashionable for buyers with large amounts of cash to spend?
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