Who would want to pay $1000/kg or perhaps $50/cup for coffee beans (kopi luwak) that have been through the digestive tract of a cat-like mongoose aka
Luwak?
Kopi luwak is a unique gourmet coffee that is processed in the stomach of a wild animal, after which it is hand collected from the floor of the Sumatran jungle. Annual global supply is estimated to be in the vicinity of six to seven hundred pounds.
This product was featured in a top-rating TV show this week, as an example of products which fall foul of Customs (due mainly to fecal matter included in a paperweight of coffee bean 'product', mounted in a display, straight from the animal's digestive tract).