What’s in a Poop?
"That which we call a Poop
By any other name would smell as Awful!"
Aye, it will.
It will stink, it will rot and its stench will attract even more obnoxious creatures such as flies and microbes. The fact that flies get lured by the gooey mass composed of animal waste may be sufficient to establish them as mindless investors or simply loathsome creatures but what if our assumption is wrong? What if the flies possess a shrewd business acumen? What if trash is truly gold?
Is poop really worth calling shit?
Certainly not and you have the connoisseurs’ word for it!
Civet coffee, a drink of the elite, is consumed widely in the Gulf nations and Europe and is reportedly priced around Rs 20,000-25,000/kg. It is the world’s most expensive coffee. The Civet coffee, also called Luwark coffee, is produced from the coffee beans digested by the civet cat. The feces of this cat are collected, processed and sold. Moreover, the coffee is expensive because of the uncommon method employed to produce it. It is highly priced because it is claimed to be more nutritious and a fortune is involved in sourcing the animal dropping, accounting for wastage during processing and certifying the quality of the end product.
In 2013, the Japanese brewery Sankt Gallen introduced Un, Kono Kuro, a beer brewed from coffee beans, called Black Ivory, that have passed through an elephant. Reportedly, Sankt Gallen sold out of the brew on the first day of its sale!
So watch out before loathing at that puke-worthy piece of animal shit lying on the road. You may unknowingly be dying to have it (albeit in a different form) pass through your gut!
Now let’s peek into a testimonial given by the guardians of the environment.
The Elephant POO POO Paper Park, an eco-tourism center in Chiang Mai, Thailand, attracts thousands of visitors every year who turn up to enjoy the vivid display of each process that turns elephant dung into aesthetic things of utility such as stationery and bouquets of paper roses. So the next time your sweetheart cringes at the sight of animal shit in the park, remind her gently of the bouquet of elephant poop (albeit in a different form) you plan to gift her!
Now that you know what’s in a poop, I urge you to become like the earthworm. An earthworm eats into the soil and produces excreta which acts as manure for the plants. The idea is to make yourself so valuable that even your poop becomes indispensable!
