I just eat coffee beans and make my own.
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I want to meet the guy who convinced rich assholes to eat shit coffee. I’d buy him a dinner.
The traditional method of collecting feces from wild Asian palm civets has given way to an intensive farming method, in which the palm civets are kept in battery cages and are force-fed the cherries.
Buy his dinner and then force feed it to him with a pipe shoved down his throat.
Of course it ends in animal cruelty. :( fucking capitalism
~~capitalism~~ humans
The story I heard was that Kopi Luwak was discovered by Indonesian slaves working Dutch coffee plantations. They weren't allowed to drink the coffee they farmed, but they were allowed to pick through civet dung and gather coffee that way.
Once the Dutch learned what the slaves were doing and tried it for themselves, they determined it tasted better than their own terrible brew methods and declared it a delicacy. Then the slaves were left with nothing.
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