Supermarkets snub coconut goods picked by monkeys

BBC ^ | 3 July 2020

[DUMBGRUNT]

The monkeys are snatched from the wild and trained to pick up to 1,000 coconuts a day, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said

The animal rights group said pigtailed macaques in Thailand were treated like "coconut-picking machines".

In a statement, Waitrose said: "As part of our animal welfare policy, we have committed to never knowingly sell any products sourced from monkey labour.

Male monkeys are able to pick up to 1,000 coconuts a day, Peta says. It's thought that a human can pick about 80.

It said it also discovered "monkey schools", where the animals were trained to pick fruit, as well as ride bikes or play basketball for the entertainment of tourists.

[Salamander]

[mabarker1]

?Bone in or Boneless?

[dinodino]

Haha, so true!

[Salamander]

Since we’re speaking of coconuts, were they brought there by an African or European swallow?”?

[a fool in paradise]

>>Like the monkeys have anything else better to do.

Typing the complete works of William Shakespeare by random chance. Duh.

[metmom]

So they protest monkeys picking coconuts cause it’s abuse of the animals, but it’s OK for people to do it.

[elcid1970]

Learned this in grade school. Monkeys don’t pick coconuts, they twirl them until the stem breaks and it falls to the ground.

They are paid with ice cold soda pop. Bet they eat better than in the wild, too.

They were also trained by the RAF in 1940. Their motto:

“You can teach...MONKEYS to fly better than that!!”

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#14. BIG SARC coming here. Re Obama having “all coconuts removed from the areas of Mumbia he was visiting in 2010...”

You ask: “Were monkeys used for this task?”

Well, if he used his White House staff, yes. Jarrett, Rhodes, Axelrod, his shysters, Hillary, etc.

[Still Thinking]

That’s their side job working for Miller.

[Still Thinking]

Call me in the morning.

[Vigilanteman]

When I was a pup, it was olives.

[Mister Da]

The Budweiser Clydesdales are next.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Yvette Mimieux is 78!!!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Like the monkeys have anything else better to do.

There's always monkey biker gangs to join...

[mabarker1]

?How does One even get their mouth open far enough to get a Coconut in the Mouth and then swallow it?...

[Vigilanteman]

I was a preteen boy back when that film came out and thought she was hot then.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So thanks to people who don't realize the value in some forms of animal labor, we will now have fewer, more expensive coconuts???

DANG!

[johniegrad]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=416o9b_pjQk

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Monkeys are one thing, but using avian labor is BEYOND THE PALE!!!

[dfwgator]

Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?