The world’s rarest coffee, Kopi Luwak, comes from Indonesia where a wildcat known as the luwak lives. The cat eats coffee berries and the coffee beans inside pass through the stomach. The beans are harvested from the cat’s dung heaps and then cleaned and roasted. Kopi Luwak sells for about $500 for a 450 g (1 lb) bag.
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I have been to Indonesia. Sadly, this practice is very inhumane. They capture the large cats and force them to live in cramped conditions which causes the animals extreme anxiety. The handlers take them out on leashes to eat the coffee beans so they can collect the dung...yes poop. I do not support this. These wild creatures deserve to be left alone in the wild not enslaved for human pleasure. Drinking coffee poop is gross.
Cheetahs do not roar, as the other big cats do. Instead, they purr.