Replying to you and @emrebeyler together - Kopi Luwak otherwise known as Civit coffee after the feral cat’s that consume the coffee cherries and then excrete the beans has always been a high priced coffee. It is claimed the fermentation process the coffee beans go through in the civit’s digestive track adds a unique flavour profile to the excreted coffee beans. Indeed fermentation is now top on all coffee farmers processing lists to increase the quality score of their beans - although they use large tanks to store the beans and a special yeast extract to develop the fermentation.
Returning to Kopi Luwak - the high price people would pay for these feral cat beans was quickly picked up on by farmers - and sadly as too often on life greed overtook common sense - and many started battery farming the poor cats keeping them in cages and force feeding them the coffee cherries to speed up production of the high value beans. This lead to a large worldwide backlash on the Kopi Luwak, and with no certification of authenticity it is impossible to tell if you are getting the natural product or battery farmed alternative.
Taking all this into account I have never dealt with Kopi Luwak - my business ethics are to support farmers and build bonds with them - but I can not justify suffering of any animal, and part of the reason this all started was the demand for the coffee and the high price it commanded. The backlash dropped demand and price, so I hope it is now back to being the wild cat variety it started with - I will look up some reference posts shortly.
Thanks for the info. I’ve read that before tried to seach a property producing ethical luwak coffee. However there is none exists since its not commercially viable.
Civet cat coffee's animal cruelty secrets http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24034029
https://www.peta.org/features/civets-suffering-cruel-coffee/
Sadly this is a November 2019 post so the problem is still rife.