15 thoughts on “Facts about poop”

  1. That civet coffee is a load. The animal is called a Kopi, they live in Indonesia. The coffee is sold as: Kopi Luwak. I’ve never seen the coffee sold anywhere, but I have seen 2 news segments and read an article that claim the Kopi Luwak sells for $600.00/lb. First all, these animals are very territorial. They need about an acre per animal to live, or they’ll fight. It is a weasel sized animal. How many coffee cherries do you think a weasel sized animal is going to eat? Not much, so when the coffee farmer sees he can get $600.00 a pound, he might just come along and say: “Hey ! those Kopis ate my entire crop, so that whole truck load I’m selling you is $600.00/lb”. Whose going to know the difference. Do you honestly think that people harvest the poop of a rodent to make coffee? Never happen.

  2. I can get 400 gram packets of Kopi Luwak for $4.50 au. I’ve found when visitors turn up and want a cup of coffee, once I’ve explain that some people in the world pay $600 a lb for it, curiosity sets in, they drink it and like it. Everyone that’s tried it, liked it. It’s great coffee.

  3. It was accomplished right here in Michigan, under the supervision of nutritionists from the University of Michigan… go blue!

    Grog, I doubt that you could do it all at once, but if you saved the results I am sure that you could put together a rainbow collection 😀

  4. Yeah there’s another factual problem there. The brown color doesn’t come from bilirubin, but rather stercobilin, a product of bilirubin after it undergoes conjugation and conversion into urobilinogen.

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