Civic cats are suffering from Kopi Luwak coffee – call companies to act now!

After learning from PETA that Asian palm civets suffer when taken from their homes in nature, stuffed into cramped cages and forced to eat an unnatural amount of coffee berries so that their excrement can be sold as kopi-luwak coffee, many businesses have done so. made the compassionate decision to remove it from their shelves. Others decided to continue to profit from animal suffering in favor of a novelty that no one wanted.

PETA Asia researchers visited civet feline farms and found alarming brutality in all. Night civets, naturally fearful of humans, were trapped in small wire cages in the sun with no dark place to sleep and subjected to a constant barrage of unwanted human contact. Their cells were covered in feces, rotting berries and other impurities, and they were constantly suffocating from the heat. Numerous civets showed signs of extreme psychological distress, including pacing and biting themselves. The researchers saw several animals with open bloody wounds, but the cats did not appear to have received any veterinary treatment. At least one was blind.

Civet cats were fed an unnatural and unhealthy diet of excessive amounts of coffee berries to maximize farm profits. Many of them lost their fur due to malnutrition.

Kopi luwak vendors usually claim their coffee is “from wild sources,” but farmers told PETA Asia investigators that collecting enough civet excrement to make coffee is next to impossible. One grower admitted that they can collect small amounts of beans from freed civets, mix them with the beans from their cells, and mistakenly call coffee “wild.” Another told an investigator, who was posing as a customer, that he could have simply labeled civet-caged coffee as “wild.”

Take action
Civet cats are nocturnal mammals that prefer to stay in the dark, secluded canopy of trees during the day – and like all other animals, they feel love, fear and joy. They just want to be left alone so they can roam freely.

PETA sent out evidence to retailers that wild civet coffee is essentially a lie, but some have ignored our pleas to stop selling it. Please persuade these businesses to stop funding civet abuse by stopping the sale of kopi-luwak today.