Asian palm civet digestive juices enter into the beans and modify the micro-structural properties of these beans. Proteolytic enzymes cause substantial breakdown of storage proteins. Kopi Luwak is traditionally made from the faeces of wild civets, however, due to it becoming a trendy drink, civets are being increasingly captured from the wild and fed coffee beans to mass-produce this blend. Many of these civets are housed in battery cage systems which have been criticised on animal welfare grounds. The impact of the demand for this fashionable coffee on wild palm civet populations is yet unknown but may constitute a significant threat. In Indonesia,
Kopi Sotiropulos the station's weekly evening news weatherperson. Kopi is now the co-host and weatherperson of the KMPH-TV "Great Day" morning news show. Kopi Sotiropulos Kopi Sotiropulos (born Prokopios Sotiropoulos; ; September 12, 1948) is a Greek-born American character actor. He is a Fresno area television news personality and longtime weatherman who served as the weekly evening news weatherperson for KMPH-TV (then based in Visalia, California). He reports the weather and co-anchors, along with Kim Stephens, the station's "Great Day" weekday morning talk/news program. A graduate of Fresno High School, Sotiropulos attended Fresno City College before transferring to Fresno State University during