The brutal truth behind the world's best civet coffee

Weasel coffee is a type of coffee that is considered a "top quality" in the coffee world and is also the rarest and most expensive drink in the world.

Kopi Luwak, also known as civet coffee, is a very special type of coffee, ranked among the "best" in the coffee world and is also the rarest and most expensive drink in the world.

The price of a cup of civet coffee in the world ranges from 30 to 100 USD, a price that proves how rare the ingredients this drink is made from.

The price of a cup of Weasel coffee in the world ranges from 30 to 100 USD.

It is considered a luxury coffee for the upper class due to the unique and different way of creating coffee beans. Kopi Luwak is coffee beans collected from the droppings of Indonesian civets.

Weasels are small mammals that live in several Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and southern China. Their favorite food is coffee berries, so they often climb coffee trees and choose to eat the ripest red berries.

But their stomachs can only digest the outer flesh of the coffee fruit, so they excrete the coffee beans along with their droppings. People here will collect the droppings mixed with coffee beans of this civet, then clean them and roast the coffee beans to make drinks.

Weasels eat coffee berries and excrete coffee beans to create a premium beverage.

Those who have experienced this type of coffee commented that civet coffee has a special delicious taste compared to other common types of coffee. A cup of civet coffee blends many flavors. It is described as having a very attractive "musty smell", sweet like syrup, rich flavor and a hint of caramel and chocolate, bitter but very pleasant.

However, behind those cups of coffee are heartbreaking images of civets being deprived of their right to live in the natural environment.

Time magazine revealed that in order to achieve the desired output, many coffee companies confine civets in cages, feeding them only fresh coffee cherries. These civets live in fear, deprived of healthy food. These nocturnal omnivores are almost mentally tortured, constantly gnawing on their limbs, until they can no longer bear it, get sick and die.

Behind those cups of coffee are the heartbreaking images of civets.

In the past, people used to find civet droppings in the wild. However, seeing the big profits, many people have captured these civets to produce industrial coffee. Animal Welfare published an article about this issue when it surveyed the situation of 48 civets in captivity, and described this business method as a form of "slavery".

"Sadly, many tourists are unaware that the minks are being kept and treated cruelly, and even take pictures and post them on social media," Neil D'Cruze, a researcher from the non-profit organization World Animal Protection, wrote in the report.

Businessman Tony Wild was the one who brought the civet coffee brand to the West in 1991. After appearing on the TV show of American MC Queen Oprah Winfrey, civet coffee products became familiar to consumers around the world.

Behind every cup of premium civet coffee is a horrifyingly cruel truth.

Realizing the cruelty of greedily profiting from this product, Wild initiated an advertising campaign, convincing consumers to stop consuming this product.

He said: "The increasing demand for this product has caused the price of the product to increase, which has led to the illegal capture of civets, their freedom taken away, and their forced feeding of excessive amounts of coffee berries in order to mass produce coffee. I deeply regret that my discovery has led to such a cruel business based on animal abuse."

According to VNN