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From coffee made out of poop to the one exported from a remote island in the middle of Atlantic Ocean – these are the most expensive coffee in the world

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Kopi luwak is a coffee delicacy made from civet feces and is popular in Bali.</li><li>A PETA investigation found civets kept in cages where workers harvest their feces.</li></ul>In Bali, opting for beans made from the poop of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kopi-luwak-cat-poop-worlds-most-expensive-coffee-taste-test-2018-11">civets</a> is the most expensive way to take your coffee. Every year, tourists travel to the Indonesian island and drink civet coffee — locally known as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/civet-coffee-most-expensive-2012-10">kopi luwak</a> — at the more than a dozen <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=kopi+luwak+bali&amp;sca_esv=7f485625a55f820f&amp;biw=712&amp;bih=686&amp;tbm=lcl&amp;sxsrf=ACQVn09T3Kr9UPIAdkfyRsDT_RE4ASFCyw%3A1710492714321&amp;ei=Kgz0ZdeVE-6RseMPntq8kAg&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjX0oL18fWEAxXuSGwGHR4tD4IQ4dUDCAk&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=kopi+luwak+bali&amp;gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LWxvY2FsIg9rb3BpIGx1d2FrIGJhbGkyCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECMgsQABiABBiKBRiRAjILEAAYgAQYigUYkQIyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSMcUULIEWJoTcAJ4AJABAZgBswGgAaIJqgEEMTQuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCEaACwwjCAgQQIxgnwgIKEAAYgAQYigUYQ8ICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAg4QABiABBiKBRixAxiDAcICDRAAGIAEGIoFGEMYsQPCAg0QABiABBgUGIcCGLEDwgIEEAAYA5gDAIgGAZIHBDE2LjGgB6yDAQ&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-local#rlfi=hd:;si:;mv:[[-8.163386542671795,115.98412809662304],[-8.898112350860012,114.9280673056074]]">cafés and farms</a> listed on Google Maps.But the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/peta-cofounder-send-elon-musk-part-heart-when-she-dies-2023-6">People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals</a>, or PETA, said in an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1NZRAZM12Q">investigative video</a> posted on YouTube on March 5 that tourists should be wary of drinking kopi luwak, as the coffee beans are collected from civets kept in wire cages.The video comprised footage of several civets held in captivity. Jason Baker, the senior vice president of PETA, told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/08/what-is-civet-coffee-peta-issues-a-new-warning-to-bali-tourists.html#:~:text=CNBC%20Travel-,A%20new%20warning%20to%20Bali%20tourists%3A%20'Stay%20away,from%20civet%20coffee%2C'%20says%20PETA&amp;text=If%20the%20idea%20of%20drinking,reason%20to%20rethink%20the%20drink.">CNBC</a> that the footage was taken at a farm in Catur, a small town 30 miles north of Ubud that's popular for trekking in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bali-digital-nomad-cost-jobs-career-guide-lifestyle-2023-3">Bali</a>.In the video, one person could be heard saying the coffee beans are collected from the civet droppings found in the "wild jungle" — but PETA wrote in the video that this isn't true."Deliberately misleading claims about how civet coffee is obtained are rampant in Bali," the video's in-text caption read.One person, whom PETA identified as a kopi luwak peddler, said that tourists don't know that the civets are held captive."That's because we forcibly [confine] them," the person said in response to the investigator asking if kopi luwak is better than regular coffee.The video ends with the in-text caption: "Don't be fooled. There is no ethically made civet coffee."Baker told CNBC that it's not possible to produce kopi luwak in mass quantities without caging civets. He said civets were also found to have been fed rotten coffee berries, covered in feces, and had open wounds. The Bali Tourism Board did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider regarding its regulations on producing and selling kopi luwak on the island."But the confinement, suffering, and sadness endured by civet cats for kopi luwak aren't among them. Tourists be warned: stay away from civet coffee," he said. PETA and Baker did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.Kopi luwak is made by cleaning and roasting partially digested coffee beans excreted by civets. Kopi luwak is also known for its high price point, costing between $45 and $600 per pound, Baker told CNBC. It's big business — according to data from the Ohio-based research company <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sphericalinsights.com/press-release/kopi-luwak-coffee-market">Spherical Insights,</a> the market size of the kopi luwak industry was worth $7.16 billion, which is projected to grow to $11 billion by 2032.It's not the first time PETA has called for tourists to boycott kopi luwak. In 2022, PETA said tourists should avoid the kopi luwak after civets were found to be <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X14aKf7_2Vk">distressed</a> when their feces were collected.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Don MacKinnon/Getty ImagesUrban Fare store manager Leanne Ring displays a package of Kopi Luwak coffee on September 12, 2002 in Vancouver, Canada.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Before visiting <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/bali" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bali, Indonesia</a>, many people had told me that I had to try Kopi Luwak, a traditional Balinese <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/coffee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coffee</a> considered to be the most <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/expensive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expensive</a> coffee in the world.</li><li>Kopi Luwak is coffee made from beans that have been digested by a civet cat (i.e. "cat poop coffee"). Balinese farmers have touted for generations that this method produces the best-tasting coffee.</li><li>But lots of kopi luwak is produced by civets held in disturbing, inhumane conditions. And even when I tried it at one of the few coffee shops that keeps its civets in humane conditions, the coffee tasted bitter and overly earthy.</li></ul> I'm the kind of person that likes to try everything. Live octopus in Korea? Check. Braised chicken feet at the dim sum hall in Hong Kong? Check. Chili-dusted, roasted grasshoppers in Mexico? Check.Before I travel, I usually research which unique foods are revered by the culture I'm visiting. When I began researching for a trip to Bali, a gorgeous Indonesian island in Southeast Asia, I found that the most talked about local specialty was kopi luwak.Kopi luwak is coffee made from coffee cherries that have been eaten, digested, and defecated by the Asian palm civet, a small mammal that looks like a cross between a cat and a raccoon. The beans are then cleaned and processed. In the West, kopi luwak has become known as "cat poop coffee."With prices ranging <a href="http://www.most-expensive.coffee/">between $35 and $100 a cup</a>, or about $100 to $600 a pound, kopi luwak is widely considered to be the most expensive coffee in the world.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Ulet Ifansasti/Getty ImagesCivet dung is prepared during the production of Civet coffee, the world's most expensive coffee at Bondowoso on August 11, 2009 in East Java, near Surabaya, Indonesia.</div></div></div>Indonesian coffee producers have claimed for generations that the kopi luwak method produces the best tasting coffee in the world. There are a few reasons for that.One, the civet is apparently a highly picky eater and will only eat the best, most ripe coffee cherries. Two, the animals' digestive enzymes "change the structure of proteins in the coffee beans, which removes some of the acidity to make a smoother cup of coffee," <a href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160429-kopi-luwak-captive-civet-coffee-Indonesia/">according to National Geographic</a>. And three, digestion removes all the fruit pulp that sometimes gets left on the bean during processing.But there are a few very big catches.<h2>Increased demand for kopi luwak has changed the industry - for the worse</h2>When, in decades past, kopi luwak was simply an Indonesian specialty, it was almost exclusively produced by wild civets. The animals would graze in the wilderness, picking the choicest cherries at their leisure, and coffee producers would hunt for the dung. But ever since coffee expert Tony Wild introduced kopi luwak to the West in the early 1990s as the coffee director of <a href="http://www.taylorsofharrogate.co.uk/home.asp?storyid=%7B7C71F1DA-3342-4609-8B5D-CFF83E35E7F2%7D">Taylors of Harrogate</a>, all that's changed. There's now a huge demand for the specialty coffee. It's stocked at luxury retailers all over the world, production has expanded to China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines, and, in Indonesia, it's one of the biggest delicacies marketed to tourists.As you can imagine, it's not wild civets producing the kopi luwak anymore. While there are still some wild civet operations, the vast majority of kopi luwak is made from civets that have been captured and put in cages on giant plantations. "Similar to foie gras geese, they're basically force-fed coffee berries," Suwanna Gauntlett, founder of Wildlife Alliance, a conservation group, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/21/civet-poop-coffee-southeast-asia-globalpost/82066314/">told Globalpost</a> in 2016. Read More: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/most-disappointing-places-in-the-world-photos-list-2018-10">I've been traveling the world for 6 months, and I've found real life doesn't always live up to the hype. These are the most disappointing places I've been</a><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Nicky Loh/Getty Images for World Animal ProtectionA 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.</div></div></div>As Wild wrote in a 2013 column<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/sep/13/civet-coffee-cut-the-crap"> calling for an end to kopi luwak</a>, civets "suffer greatly" from being caged. Naturally solitary, the civets suffer stress when living in close proximity to each other, have numerous health problems due to the coffee-cherry diet, chew on their own legs, and often die.Even if you don't care about animal welfare, there's the reality that the coffee just doesn't taste that good. Many say that kopi luwak was discovered <a href="http://nordiccoffeeculture.com/what-kopi-luwak-is-and-why-you-should-avoid-it/">during Dutch colonial rule,</a> when Indonesian farmers were barred from harvesting coffee cherries for their own use. They had to scrounge around to get beans. The dung of the wild civet supposedly provided a shortcut to high-quality, cleaned coffee cherries free from the mold or decay that would've been common at the time.But any premium coffee <a href="http://nordiccoffeeculture.com/what-kopi-luwak-is-and-why-you-should-avoid-it/">you get at your local coffee shop comes from cherries</a> processed via far more advanced methods than kopi luwak and from uniformly ripe, high-quality cherries, according to Nordic Coffee Culture.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Harrison Jacobs/Business InsiderKopi luwak at Satu Satu cafe.</div></div></div><h2>I tried kopi luwak sourced from a family farm - and it was nothing special</h2>When I got to Bali, I visited the Satu Satu Café in Canggu, a small coastal town. Satu Satu <a href="https://munchies.vice.com/en_uk/article/wnbdwn/balis-best-coffee-is-made-with-wild-cat-poo">sources its kopi luwak from owner Eddie Sudana's six-acre family farm</a>. It's reputed to be one of the few places that still sources its beans from cage-free, wild civets.I figured if I had to try kopi luwak, at least I could do it at a place that makes it ethically. It wasn't even that expensive. If I remember correctly, it was only about 30-40% more than the regular coffee at Satu Satu.I love coffee. Espresso, French press, Aeropress, cold-brew, pour-over - I drink it all. The kopi luwak was nothing special. It tasted slightly smoother than your average diner cup of joe, but not better than ones I've had at any coffee shop worth its salt. And there was a gritty, overly earthy flavor.To be honest, I've made better cups of coffee in my Aeropress. At this point in time, drinking kopi luwak is more about being able to tell your friends you drank the most expensive coffee in the world than some amazing delicacy. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/places-on-google-maps-you-cant-see-2016-11">7 places you can't find on Google Maps</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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