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.
Bill Gates forces monkeys to do all the Windows updates.
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That would be funny, but it is true.
I speak as a Windows user from version 1.0 (useless) and up.
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Bots, not concerned shoppers.
You’d probably get better results if they did use monkeys.
Gland there ain’t no chickens involved in the mix.
Glad.
Send them out to starve and replace them with low paid humans
So was the monkey that got shot last week a union organizer or something?
Monkey pox?
Walmart is ok with the slave labor used by the Chinese communists.
...and now all those monkeys will have to turn to crime to support their families. Which leads to increased drug use which leads to more crime.
If they can be trained to pick the ripe cocoanuts,
They would make better congressmen than Democrats...
Don’t worry, Biden will allow the monkeys to immigrate. They will receive taxpayer funded transportation to America’s largest cities, cash and medical assistance plus food stamps. The monkeys will fit right in.
If they had no opportunity to eat they would be dead in less then a week.
So People Eating Tasty Animals is lying through their veneers.
Do they get a smoke break?
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