Detroit - based startup Gäyo Kopi has introduced wild - certified Kopi Luwak coffee (sourced from
wild civets in Indonesia) to the US market, completing pre-order shipments of the rare imported coffee this month, the company said.
Gayo Kopi works with exclusive coffee farms who are certified by the Indonesian government to only source from free - roaming
wild Civets.
Doi Chaang
Wild Civet coffee is produced from the scat of strictly wild civets eating only high quality, organic arabica beans in Thailand.
Originally they took the beans from
the wild civet, that's why the price is so high (a pound can cost you easily $ 250, - or more) because the whole process can take a while.
They also make a point of explaining that their kopi luwak is collected from
wild civet droppings.
Not exact matches
Gayo Kopi provides the world's most exquisite, animal - friendly
Wild Kopi Luwak Arabica coffee beans in the world, processed by the Asian Palm
Civet in Indonesia.
In the markets of Guangdong province, which borders on the South China Sea, thousands of chickens, ducks, quail, and geese squawk endlessly, crammed into cages next to or stacked on top of
wilder creatures —
civet cats, raccoon dogs, snakes, and turtles.
Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a
civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell
wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.
But when scientists tested
civets in the
wild or on farms, they found no trace of the disease.
In spring 2003, the virologist at Hong Kong University (HKU) isolated the SARS virus from masked palm
civets in a
wild animal market in China's Guangdong Province.
bushmeat
Wild mammals eaten by people, including not only cats, Chinese bamboo rats, squirrels, badgers and
civets but also nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, chimps and gorillas.
Domestic cats, some
wild cats and their relatives —
civets, genets and mongooses — purr, and even hyenas, raccoons and guinea pigs can purr.
The catch: the only way to get the processed beans is by waiting for the
civet to release them into the
wild.
The fruits are eaten by a
civet, a
wild animal that looks like a cat, because of the pulp that is inside of the fruits.