Coffee Made from Cat Poo

ROCKFORD, MI -- Move over Starbucks. You?re getting some competition from an unusual source: namely, cat feces.

Herman?s Boy, a coffee shop in Rockford, Michigan, serves up the unusual brew. The owner, Floyd Havemeier, says the coffee beans are safe, even though they?ve passed through a cat?s rear end. ?It will be very sanitary, probably more sanitary than some other things we consume.?

Havemeier bought three pounds of the rare Kopi Luwak beans from missionaries from Indonesia. The beans go through an unusual and unappetizing path to the coffee cup. The luwak civet, a kind of cat, eats the coffee beans. Then, you know.

The beans are collected quickly after they hit the ground and sold to willing connoisseurs the world over who swear by the coffee.

Herman?s Boy is offering the Kopi Luwak up for charity, at five to ten dollars a cup.