@JourneymanGeek Shadow learned about kopi luak from that scene in the movie "The Bucket List" and finds the idea extremely funny, so mentioning it in any way will only make them happy and laugh. If you want to change their view about it the only hope is to make them see a video about how it is made. And I don't mean the "digested" thing, I mean the animals kept in small cages they can't even move in for their life.
@JourneymanGeek to be fair, for once it was a ChatGPT bot that pointed out that Kopi production often hides animal abuse. Most documentaries just show you people searching in the wild as if the animals were left free to wander.
@SPArcheon well the movie didn't mention the process in much details (except saying something like "it's cat poo"), but later I did read about it a bit, and remember something about people following the cats around, and collecting the coffee beans when they're... being ejected from the cats.
So perhaps in some places it's different, maybe time to dig bit more into it...
@ShadowWizardLoveZelda That is your average storytelling yes. But apparently most of the product comes from the Asian palm civets (they aren't cats even if they are often called civet cats) kept in cages all their lives.
Not that most farm animals have a much different life mind you
It is just that I had always assumed part of the price came from the difficulty of tracking the animals in the wild, while apparently it is just artificial since they just keep them trapped
@ShadowWizardLoveZelda did you just respond to a 14 year old chat message? That was really confusing, I saw all these familiar faces and was glad they were back and then noticed the year! :P
I have a feature request idea regarding Suggested Edits audits: Would it be a better idea to post a new question, or to post it as an answer to this decade old request? meta.stackexchange.com/q/159544/1377755
