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Jean B.[_1_]

wrote:
> On 27 Oct 2006 20:01:23 -0700, wrote:
>
>> Rod Out Back wrote:
>>> On 27 Oct 2006 16:21:33 -0700, wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jke wrote:
>>>>>>> I did some googling in Dutch - several sites say the nuts are
> "passed"
>>>>>>> through a living goat before being pressed. If only to remove
> the shell,
>>>>>>> they can't digest the actual nut, apparently. But these days,
> pulling the harvest off the trees.
>> It was hilarious.
>>
>> It looked realistic, but I knew it was make-believe. (After all:
>> everyone knows that spaghetti is made from flour, eggs, and water,
> and
>> comes in rectangular boxes for about $.88 per pound).
>>
>> Coffee pooped out of a cat for $300 per pound?
>> There's a sucker born every minute.
>
> I have dismissed this theory for many years in alt.coffee but the idea
> persists. Maybe like the people who still claim the earth is flat.
> Logic and science do not matter. I do think kopi luwak is a scam. I
> have asked an Animal behaviorist Professor at the university of Hawaii
> and he said "no", cats or civets would not be convinced to eat fresh
> coffee while kept in the a cage.
>
> I have cats and live on a coffee farm and my cats would never even
> entertain the idea of eating a fresh coffee bean. The dog, which is
> an animal whose scientific <family> is far removed from a cat's
> <family>, does like the sweet outside of coffee but to get even a
> pound of "Mollie the Collie" Luwak would take more than a week. Gross.
>
> Just my $.02
>
> aloha,
> beans
> --smithfarms.com
> farmers of pure kona
> roast beans to kona to email

I think you're wrong. There was an article about kopi luwak
in a science magazine two or so years ago. I wish I had it
here--or my local libraries kept the magazines that long.
Maybe someone can find it though.

--
Jean B.