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Posted on 10/29/2020 9:42:18 AM PDT by Daveinyork
The alleged use of forced monkey labor has led Costco to stop selling Thai-made coconut products. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been tracking such animal abuse since 2019, while urging retailers to pull merchandise made from the bad actors to discourage the practice, USA Today reported. “No kind shopper wants monkeys to be chained up and treated like coconut-picking machines,” PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement, according to the outlet. “Costco made the right call to reject animal exploitation, and PETA is calling on holdouts like Kroger to follow suit.” PETA’s investigation found chained-up monkeys can pick around 400 coconuts a day and are then stuffed in cages until their next shift, the outlet reported. “Just because something is legal or accepted it doesn’t mean it’s OK,” said Kent Stein, PETA’s corporate responsibility officer. Stein pointed to the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s active promotion of the “Monkey Center,” where tourists can watch the primates learn how to collect coconuts for 300 baht, or about $10. Kids can catch the show for just 150 baht, or about $5. “The Monkey Center is established and has turned into a new tourist attraction which becomes popular among local people and foreigners. In the center, the monkeys will be trained to collect the coconuts. Each training session takes about 4 months and requires a trainer and a student,” the tourism authority’s website reads. “Moreover, you can enjoy other monkey shows in the center,” it continues. One of the brands removed from Costco is Chaokoh, made by Theppadungporn Coconut Co. Ltd, which denies using monkey labor, the outlet said.
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Monkey Lives Matter! (only a Leftist would consider that racist)
Human force labor would have been better
Had to make sure this wasn’t Babylon Bee
I hear they are easy to train. You know: Monkey see, Monkey do!
COSTCO sends Thousand of Innocent Monkee’s to their certain Death
But forced labor from Chinese human beings okey-dokey.
Just pay them a livable banana wage.
I thought the monkeys all worked at Twitter?
and weekends off, health benefits and a 401k plan.
It was a story on the local noon time news. I just had to find it on the internet to post it. I’d have posted it on facebook, but I’m avoiding facebook at least until after the election.
They need to form their own union.
They took away some of the happiness that monkeys derive from doing this “Tricky Task”. It’s what monkeys like to do.
Did anyone ask the monkeys if they felt they were being treated as slaves, or if they were getting fair pay for their work?
Oh wow, where am I going to get my Samsonite luggage now?
So if they pay the monkeys we’re all good then right?
Now that right there is spot on.
Dontcha love it!
forced monkey labor now? when do the riots for free bananas start?
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