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.
Fwiw, I have never been to Thailand, I do not know if they eat monkeys.
Thailand has been raising and training pigtailed macaques to pick coconuts for around 400 years. Coconut farmers in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India and other countries in the region sometimes rely on monkeys, too.
Turns out a male monkey can collect an average of 1,600 coconuts per day and a female can get 600, while a humans can only collect around 80 per day. It’s also safer for a scampering, height-savvy monkey to pluck and drop the fruit from the trees — up to 80 feet tall — than a human, according to the National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
We need to stop applying our standards into foreign countries. All it does it piss people off and stat wars for us we have no need to be in. I suppose this is PETA’s way of attacking capitalism. Maybe they should have started long ago when the aphids and other bugs got into the US gardens. PETA should have complained about the introduction of Lady Bug Beatles when they started selling them in the open market. Wasn’t it cruel to do that also?
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And neither will the customers know it’s fresh farm raised monkey. 😆
The Monkeys should have hired Marty Walsh to represent them
Another way to deplete another food staple.
Thailand has been raising and training pigtailed macaques to pick coconuts for around 400 years. Coconut farmers in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India and other countries in the region sometimes rely on monkeys, too.
Turns out a male monkey can collect an average of 1,600 coconuts per day and a female can get 600, while a humans can only collect around 80 per day. It’s also safer for a scampering, height-savvy monkey to pluck and drop the fruit from the trees — up to 80 feet tall — than a human, according to the National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Unionize the monkeys!!
You wouldn’t be lying!
Which is why PETA prefers to euthanize pets
They should unionize.
The Congo produces 60% of the world's cobalt. This must be where they are using child labor. But through out the world's poor nations, child labor is used. In fields, to grow food, and so on. A young hungry mouth has to earn his/her keep.
I didn’t know monkeys had such crummy lives, being sex slaves for gays and now coconut picking slaves.
Spanking monkeys in public is generally frowned upon.
The atheists like to say that with an infinite amount of time a monkey on a keyboard will eventually type Shakespeare. LOL
Spanking monkeys in public is generally frowned upon.
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How about they just ‘shock the monkey’.... is that ok?
Those are not monkeys; they are apes of the Chimpanzee variety.
Dogs, mules, donkeys, horses, bulls are all like, “WTF?”
Do the Monkeys have a say? Maybe they could organize a union.
I have 14 raccoons and 6 skunks that guard the house at night. In exchange they receive cat food, water and blueberry breakfast bars.They never complain. They even work a 12 hour shift non stop even when it is raining. If I give the racoons dollar bills they just bring the $$ back and leave the money at the door.
That would explain a lot, actually
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