The Dark Reality Behind Bali’s “World-Famous” Cat-Poo Coffee

If you’ve never heard of civet coffee, you’re not alone. Most people haven’t. It occasionally surfaces as a novelty fact, “there’s a coffee made from beans an animal poos out”, and then disappears back into the trivia drawer. It’s the kind of thing people mention at dinner parties without ever questioning where it comes from or who pays the real price for it. But civet coffee isn’t a quirky tradition or a harmless cultural oddity. It’s an industry built on capturing wild animals, locking them in cages, and calling it tourism.