A caretaker feeds coffee seeds to a civet cat inside a 'Kopi Luwak' or Civet coffee farm and cafe on May 27, 2013 in Tampaksiring, Bali, Indonesia. Nicky Loh/Getty Images for World Animal Protection ...

Indonesian Civet Cat Poop Coffee Brews Up Controversy It's the world's most expensive cup of coffee, but animal rights groups have concerns over how it's produced.

Civet coffee is sold at five coffee shops around the Bay Area. San Francisco Eva's Coffee calls it the rarest and most luxurious coffee in the world, which they charge $15 a cup for.

New York’s crappiest cup of coffee is also its most expensive. At $30 a cup, “Kopi Luwak” is made from beans collected from the droppings of a small, cat-like mammal called a civet.

A civet cat eats red coffee cherries at a farm in Bondowoso, Indonesia. Civets are actually more closely related to meerkats and mongooses than to cats.

An Indonesian civet eating coffee berries. Civet coffee, or "Kopi Luwak," is made from coffee berry seeds that were eaten, digested and defecated by the cat-like animal whose digestive tract ...

Justice moved swiftly in Karnataka when forest officials arrested two suspects for the illegal shooting death of a rare Malabar civet cat in May 2020. The arrests came after an investigation into ...

Civet Cat Rescued: In a rare operation, an Asian palm civet ventured inside a gym equipment store-cum-godown in Delhi’s Ghitorni area. The mammal was found trapped inside the washroom of the store.

Hong Kong animal activists condemned the slaughtering of civet cats. "We don't even know if the civet cat is the direct source of SARS," said Ng Cho-nam, president of the Conservancy Association.

A civet cat, commonly known as a fishing cat has been traced to the coronavirus which causes SARS. Southern Chinese have a particular penchant for eating wild game, including civet cats. HONG KONG ...