Poopy Coffee??Urine Tomatoes??

     What's the fascination now with feces and urine?  There used to be a time when scientists and researchers believed that consuming either of the two would lead to death.  Some genius has now figured out a way to get great tasting coffee from feces.  If that came as a surprise, the price, $80 per cup in the US is stifling! I love coffee but NO! I will not go there.  Kopi Luwak is made in Indonesia and Sub Saharan Africa.  A cat, the Civet, eats coffee cherries. These coffee beans can not be digested so while in the stomach, enzymes change the structure of the proteins in the beans.  This lessens the acidity and allows for a milder cup of coffee.
Uuuumm... Who is sitting there plucking these beans out of that poop?!
How much are they getting paid?
Next, scientists are growing tomatoes in a lab derived from urine.  Why? So it can be grown  successfully on the Moon or Mars .  Liquid waste from washing, sweat and the toilet is being recycled.  Some of the urine used is both artificial and real from volunteers.  I love science and beautiful minds but sometimes, "Alice, BANG ZOOM TO THE MOON" in my Ralph Kramden voice.  
Surprisingly, as grotesque as this sounds, if I were a contestant on, "Fear Factor" and a huge money bag was up for grasps, I'd digest it for now, I digress!
What abut you? Would you eat/drink any of these items? Would you pick poop?

Reference 

Rachael Bale.National Geographic.The Disturbing Secret Behind the world's Most expensive coffee.  Apr. 29 2016.
news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160429-kopi-luwak-captive- civet-coffee-Indonesia/
Hollingham, Richard. Why a German lab is growing tomatoes in urine. March 8, 2017
bbc.com/future/story/20170308-why-a-german-lab-is-growing-tomatoes-in-urine

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