Cat Poo Coffee for the Snob Coffee Connoisseur

Cat Poo Coffee
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It isn't as gross as it seems, to be honest. Cat poo cofee, or kopi luwak in Indonesian, is pretty much just recycled coffee salvaged from the poo of the civet cat.

Its genesis began when Indonesian coffee farmers found the best berries of their coffee crop consistently stolen and eaten by civet cats residing in the vicinity of the coffee plantations. The civet cats would then poop the beans back out intact and undigested, extracting only the berrylicious outer. In efforts to salvage the beans stolen by the civet cats, farmers would collect the poop, wash them thoroughly, roast and grind the beans for coffee, now known as cat poo coffee (selling for high as $50.00 a cup - undoubtedly due to the low yield in this coffee production method).

Ingenious bit of farming, though I can't imagine that the increase in demand from the international coffee connoisseur market would drive industrial farming and intensify the heinous exploitation of civet cats, not to mention enslaving Indonesian coffee farmers through unfair trade practices.