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ct. 19, p2

Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has organized a boycott of the country'€™s popular commodity, kopi luwak, or civet coffee, saying that animal abuse was part and parcel of the production of the coffee beans.

PETA said in a press conference that most of the civets producing the famous coffee were confined to cages and subjected to cruel, unnatural treatment.

Your comments:

Wake up PETA! You should also ask foreign supermarkets to cease selling those products from their stores. Typical double standards!

Bianco

You know, PETA is just about stirring up sensation. I don'€™t think they have any other role.

Mounte Cristo

Ban luwak coffee! Civet cats should live free in the forest; not in cages.

Sudarshana

Gandhi once said: '€œThe civilization of a country can be measured by the way its people treat animals.'€

Sad but true: Many Indonesians do not respect animals and the country'€™s wildlife.

Azwar Bareta

The conditions in which captive civets are held are appalling. One can wonder whether the quality of the beans is as good when civets are stressed as when they are free in plantations.

The main point is that these animals suffer and this should not be tolerated. For my part, I have
decided to stop drinking kopi luwak and I will invite my friends to do the same. Knowing that civets suffer suddenly gives Kopi Luwak a very bitter taste.

S. Paijo

As far as I am concerned PETA can go jump in a lake. They won'€™t be happy until all animals run free and humans are caged.

As for this coffee, the guy'€™s caged civets poop 15 kilograms of coffee beans per month?

A large breed dog doesn'€™t poop that much in a month and the civet is a lot smaller so I think it is safe to say these animals are being fed way more than normal. Maybe even force fed.

As for caged-civet coffee being higher quality then wild, that is a statement someone who caged these animals would make

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