re: Walmart pulls coconut milk brand because of forced monkey labor

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Chaokoh coconut milk

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It's the best coconut milk product in grocery stores. Better than savoy, Goya, you name it.

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I never said it is. Did you read my post?

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This is why I hate message boards sometimes. You can't hear the tone of my voice or body language. Just to let you know when I asked that question I was not being accusatory at all.

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This is why I hate message boards sometimes. You can't hear the tone of my voice or body language. Just to let you know when I asked that question I was not being accusatory at all.

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Completely fair, and my bad for being a little jumpy

I’m on my phone, but in the process of c/p the allegations from PETA’s website, just so they get fewer clicks than my linking it

ETA: c/p from PETA’s website, because they don’t deserve the clicks. But just to convey the actual accusations, whether true or not:

“Many kind people choose coconut milk instead of cow’s milk because they don’t want to support cruelty to animals. But a disturbing PETA Asia investigation reveals that terrified young monkeys in Thailand are kept chained, abusively trained, and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts that are used to make coconut milk, meat, flour, oil, and other products.

In 2019, PETA Asia investigators visited eight farms where monkeys are forced to pick coconuts—including those for one of Thailand’s major coconut milk producers, Chaokoh—as well as several monkey-training facilities and a coconut-picking competition. At each one, they documented that these sensitive animals were abused and exploited. Since being alerted to this situation nearly a year ago, Chaokoh and the Thai government have failed to take meaningful action to end the use of forced monkey labor. They are relying on a misleading and inadequate audit system instead of going directly to inspect the farms themselves. This allows them to remain willfully ignorant of the extent of forced monkey labor in their coconut supply chain.
In 2020, a new PETA Asia investigation found that monkeys are still being used at many farms and that monkey schools are still in operation and coconut-picking competitions using monkeys are still taking place. Even though many retailers around the world have stopped purchasing Thai coconut products, the Thai coconut industry, including Chaokoh and the Thai Food Processors Association, and Thailand’s ambassador to the U.S. are all actively attempting to mislead global retailers and consumers about the continued use of monkey labor.

Reportedly, many monkeys are illegally abducted from their families when they’re just babies. They’re fitted with rigid metal collars and kept chained or tethered for extended periods.

Denied the freedom to move around, socialize with others, or do anything else that is important to them, these intelligent animals slowly lose their minds. Driven to desperation, they pace and circle endlessly on the barren, trash-strewn patches of dirt where they’re chained.

The terrified young monkeys are forced to perform frustrating and difficult tasks, such as twisting heavy coconuts until they fall off the trees from a great height. An investigator learned that if monkeys try to defend themselves, their canine teeth may be pulled.
To earn more money off these animals, some trainers also force them to participate in circus-style shows in which they entertain paying visitors by riding bicycles, shooting basketballs, and performing other confusing and demeaning tricks.

An investigator saw monkeys being transported in cramped cages that were barely large enough for them to turn around in and others left in locked cages in the back of a pickup truck, with no shelter from the driving rain. One monkey was seen frantically shaking the cage bars in a vain attempt to escape.

Tethered by the neck with a metal collar, the monkeys are forced to climb up and down trees and collect coconuts.”

150 years ago those PETA frickers would have starved to death because they refused to use horses and mules to work the land and harvest the crops.

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Tethered by the neck with a metal collar, the monkeys are forced to climb up and down trees and collect coconuts.”

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It's a monkey. What else are they supposed to be doing?

They're animals. They don't know they're working.

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Elephants work for peanuts. Monkeys work for bananas.

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not anymore your evil capitalist. The monkeys want to work remote and get better pay.

What about service dogs?

And does this mean that plowing with oxen, using a mule cart or riding a horse is somehow wrong?