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.
Monkeys are pests. Here they are being put to work, are being fed well. And PETA puts an end to this. Crazy!
There is no reason to keep the monkeys alive.
Aren’t horses kept tied and forced to do work?
Aren’t pets kept pinned and forced to be with people who “own” them?
In other news ‘Boycotted Monkeys Killed in Thailand as Coconut Groves Go Out of Business’.
This is sick. Putting hard working, patriotic monkeys out of work.
LOL. So the monkeys can honestly say "I am quitting to spend time with my family," unlike lying American politicians who quit and say that.
They really don’t need to chain the monkey up, just spank him if he doesn’t do his job.
We can’t have 15 year old girls upset.
86,000 emails? That’s 860 emails per person that G.A.S. about monkees clomb9mg trees and dropping coconuts to the ground. .
But if the product was made in a warehouse in the most rough and poor part of China where laborers work 12+ hours in deplorable conditions for mere pennies a day ... Walmart wouldn’t care.
Monkeys are smart. Arrange a system so they are treated like employees and compensated for their work and they will probably come up with ideas to increase production...unlike most humans.;-)
Not to mention the disfigurement of coconut nipples as the result of prolonged milking......
Wait, I’m confused, I thought we couldn’t use the word monkey any more. I mean monkeypox was somehow stigmatizing to certain segments of the population that Leftists projected their biases onto and now, Lawdamercy, monkeys picking crops. That should cause their tiny heads to explode.
PETA put a monkey wrench in Chaokoh coconut milk’s operation.
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