Posted on 06/22/2022 8:03:05 AM PDT by dennisw
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Walmart announced it has removed Chaokoh coconut milk from its shelves following two undercover investigations by animal rights organization PETA.
PETA accused the coconut milk brand of using chained and caged monkeys in its production, leading to 86,000 e-mails to Walmart from PETA supporters requesting the product be pulled from its stores.
"After hearing from PETA and tens of thousands of concerned shoppers, Walmart has ended its sales of Chaokoh brand coconut milk, for which monkeys are chained, caged, and forced into a lifetime of labor picking coconuts," PETA wrote in a statement. "The company joins over 45,000 stores that have rejected coconut products linked to monkey labor in Thailand."
A 2020 audit by a Thailand-based firm said the coconut company didn’t use monkeys in picking coconuts, but PETA said the claim was inaccurate.
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"The coconut trade uses social monkeys as chained-up coconut-picking machines, depriving them of any opportunity to eat, play, or spend time with their families," said PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "With one PETA exposé after another confirming cruelty on coconut farms, retailers are dropping Chaokoh left and right. Kudos to Walmart for its kind decision."
In 2019, PETA Asia’s first investigation found "cruelty to monkeys on every farm, at every monkey-training facility and in every coconut-picking contest that used monkey labor."
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"When not being forced to pick coconuts or perform in circus-style shows for tourists, the animals were kept tethered, chained to old tires, or confined to cages barely larger than their bodies," PETA continued.
According to the animal advocacy organization, the group’s second investigation in 2020 found that monkeys were still being used at many farms, monkey schools were still in operation and coconut-picking competitions that used monkeys were still taking place.
Kroger’s, Costco, Target, Wegmans’ and Walgreens have also stopped selling the product.
No need for investigations. People would believe your story.
He looks so sad……..nothin’ some good old fashion Reparations can’t fix!
Monkeys would probably cause less damage doing Windows updates.
That is the reason the monkeys unleashed the monkeypox on humans.
Darn! Where will we get our monkey pox now?.....................
😆🤣😂 I had a gut feeling the Monkeys plotted it!
Which is true........................
I think it’s kinda cool that you could buy coconut milk at Walmart harvested by live monkeys!
I would have bought some of that stuff if I knew!!
These darn do-gooders ruin everything. My tuna hasn’t tasted nearly as good as it did before the “dolphin free” variety came out!
The gays wouldn’t keep their hands off the monkey’s coconuts. I am not surprised!
My monkeys choose to work 14 hours a day ..for a bunch over reduced priced over ripe bananas.
My monkeys choose to work 14 hours a day ..for a bunch OF reduced priced over ripe bananas.
But Lib EV buyers are ok with child labor used to mine Cobalt which is an important raw material used in manufacturing Lithium Ion batteries. To meet the ever-increasing demand for cobalt, children from low-income economies are sent into mines rather than schools to meet the demand.
Looks like unionized monkeys to me. They are just sitting around like lazy ass union employees.
[I don’t like Bill Gates. And I don’t like Microsoft. So I’m going to tell PETA that Bill Gates forces monkeys to do all the Windows updates.]
They were after the milk.
OMG, now with all these lay about monkeys lolling about , expect to see a rise in spousal abuse, an increase in drug use and with such a blow to the monkeys self esteem, expect a rise in monkey suicides.
Monkeys picking coconuts is almost as hilarious as posters who don’t remove ads from their posts...
The Thailand cuisine is gonna get a bit more broad.
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