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When it comes to coffee culture, I have to say that the luxury of coffee is cat coffee. When you think of cat coffee, do you immediately think of that rare and proud musk cat?
According to Canadian researchers, the digestive juices of musk cats can break down the proteins in coffee beans into very small particles, which increases the aroma of coffee during grinding. In addition, the intestines of musk cats are able to filter out some specific proteins, thereby reducing the bitter taste of coffee. There is also an enzyme in its digestive system, which can break down many amino acids, and this amino acid can be excreted coffee beans with a unique flavor.
The historical origins of cat coffee can be traced back to the beginning of the Indonesian coffee industry, which began in the 18th century, in the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, which we know as the Dutch East Indies, Dutch colonists established coffee bean plantations. Their coffee and fruit plantations include small fruit coffee imported from Yemen. During the colonial era of 1830 and 1870, Europeans saw that these countries were less developed than they were, so they wanted to seize the natural resources of these countries.
The coffee plantations established by the Dutch received a lot of goods, but they forbade local indigenous farmers to use the coffee cherries for their own use. But these laborers, confronted with the coffee cherries they had grown and collected, naturally developed a curiosity to try this world-famous drink that had never been tried.
Thus began the history of cat-poop coffee: these farmers found that the local musk cats also ate coffee cherries, but in the feces they excreted, they could still see the complete coffee beans, so they took the undigested coffee beans back to wash, roast, grind, and drink. So produced their own coffee drinks.
However, the coffee obtained by this method seems to taste far beyond their imagination - it smells rich and fragrant, and this special aroma makes musk cat coffee widely spread among local residents and Dutch colonists, and soon became their favorite. So even in that colonial era, cat coffee was sold at a high price. This is the history of cat coffee. Until now, it is still highly priced, and it is likely to only rise and not decrease.
Before cat coffee was discovered, musk cats were hunted by humans for eating coffee cherries. Later cat coffee was touted after the high price. Humans also deliberately hunt musk cats, imprison them in cages, and let them mass-produce cat coffee. Musk cats, which can only eat coffee cherries, are extremely malnourished. Fur shedding. Nerve damage. It cannot be ruthlessly discarded after mass production of cat. But due to their long lives in captivity, they cannot survive in the wild. One more mention. The original cat coffee was delicious because musk cats were picky about coffee cherries, and they picked and cooked them to eat. The captive musk cats eat both raw and cooked, and have no choice. They are actually extremely freedom-loving beings, imprisoned and raised, and they will once go on a hunger strike to protest, but the merchants will not hesitate to abuse the cat to ask for in order to get high-priced musk cat coffee.
Don't think that if you feed musk mustard in captivity, you can collect a lot of cat coffee. They refuse because they are a group of beings who love freedom so much! Once they lose their freedom, they go on hunger strike without a word, feel their bodies hollowed out, and even tear each other to death. Unexpectedly, you are a musk mustela that "everything can be thrown" for freedom! Now, it's hard to see the real raw cat coffee. Today's cat coffee mostly comes from wild coconut cats in cages, and they are generally kept in harsh conditions. A Japanese scientist recently said he invented a way to distinguish between real and fake cat coffee, and it would be better if he could invent a way to distinguish whether the coffee beans came from wild coconut cats or captive coconut cats.
Many coffee companies around the world are still using the original story about the digestive habits of wild animals as a gimmick to peddle cat coffee, and many companies claim to collect only 500 kilograms of cat coffee per year, and use this scarcity to justify its expensive price (cat coffee usually sells for $200-400 per kilogram, sometimes more expensive). In fact, although it is impossible to get accurate figures, I estimate that the global annual production of cat coffee is at least 50 tons, and much more than that is possible. Now farmers in India, Vietnam, China and the Philippines are also joining the ranks of producing cat coffee.
Today's Indonesian cat coffee is basically the product of industrial production, and the original ecology is almost impossible. Sounds a little disgusting, right? Indeed it is. These timid creatures have to squeeze into a cage with their peers, which makes them under great pressure, and the abnormal diet of too much emphasis on coffee cherries also makes them suffer from other health problems. The coconut cats in cages began to fight with each other, even biting their own legs, the feces began to bleed, and death was a common thing.
In Indonesia, the trapping of wild coconut cats is supposed to be tightly controlled, but they are caught in cages by poachers and forced to be fed coffee cherries to excrete more feces with coffee beans, all for profiteering and satisfying some people's hypocritical pleasures.
The cat coffee business has been a huge success, especially by consumers who spend a lot of money. If you're struggling with what birthday presents to prepare for your local friends, how about spending £6,500 on cat coffee wrapped in 24K gold foil at Harrods, the UK's most famous and exclusive department store? In fact, what you buy is no longer cat coffee, just like thai coffee and Brazilian bird coffee, which are popular all over the world today, are only used to satisfy people's insatiable desire for this weird, superficial vanity.
But now it has been overpriced and over-industrialized. People use it to put a veil of hypocrisy on themselves, whitewashing their deformed tastes and senseless vanity. I want everyone to think that satisfying their own tastes can't come at the expense of wildlife, that this cancer can't continue any longer, and that it's time to stop it. The fame of musk ferret and cat coffee depends on each other's support and mutual achievement.
So, do you still want to drink cat coffee? Is there any reason why we should not love and treat the cute musk cats? Again, if there is no sale, there is no killing.