UK supermarkets may ban Thai coconut products over use of monkeys

[rooster59]

UK supermarkets may ban Thai coconut products over use of monkeys

 

 

The Thai Animals Protection Association has urged the Commerce and Agriculture ministries to issue a clarification to British retailers quickly about the use of pigtailed macaques in the harvesting of coconuts in Thailand.

 

Mr. Roger Lohanan, secretary-general of the association, made the call after four British retailers pledged to stop offering coconut products that use monkey labour in their production.

 

According to a BBC report on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s conservationist fiancée, Carrie Symonds, called on all other supermarkets to stop selling the products, which include certain brands of coconut water and coconut milk.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/uk-supermarkets-may-ban-thai-coconut-products-over-use-of-monkeys/

 

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[Brianbighead]

They should ban all the seafood too. 

A lot of slaves used in the fishing industry.

People with their hands in freezing water all day peeling prawns for pennies

[kevinsan]

Ban the buffalo rice and all muled cocaine.

[bert bloggs]

Just get men to climb the trees and collect them ,oh but make sure they are white men ,or someone will be offended ????

[worgeordie]

What's the World coming to,ban everything,ban working horses,donkey's

dogs,ferrets,Falcon's and monkey's, Oh and those cormorants that the

Chinese fishers use.

Then have a think and come up with other things someone does not

like and ban it.

regards worgeordie

[Speedo1968]

They do it in India too...
And cows go shopping !

Used to visit India regularly on farming business.
Sorry couldn't paste image properly.

[ChipButty]

The monkeys do a better job 

[tonray]

Yeah...but the beefsteak section is OK...nothing like taking care of your cattle with a bolt stunner to the head. Poor monkeys don't know how bad they have it...ha ha ha

[twocatsmac]

Monkey Lives Matter.

[ftpjtm]

What effect will this have on the monkey unemployment rate?

 

I hear it's already sky high in Lopburi.

[ezzra]

Is there no end to what the bleeding hearts twerps of this world paddling their twaddle garbage platforms on the rest of the world? have they gon all nuts now with nothing better to do caring for monkeys welfare when billions of people are in much worse situations and in dire straits just to survive?...

[sanuk711]

I remember when I lived in Pattaya late 90s-- use to sit at one of the beach bars, watch the man come alone with his helper (monkey) go up pull whatever Coconuts were loose, those days the whole beach front was just Palm (Coconut) trees, Had some high winds when a few free-lancers were injured , so they decided to remove the trees.....

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, bert bloggs said:

Just get men to climb the trees and collect them ,oh but make sure they are white men ,or someone will be offended ????

But the monkeys know which ones are ripe! 

[colinneil]

Carrie Simmonds wants to shut up, just trying to get her name in the spotlight.

If she is so concerned about animal welfare, she should put her energies into elephant welfare, they get seriously mistreated, unlike the monkeys.

[Matzzon]

Now the UK and the brits are trying to look good and use common sense as well as pushing for higher moral standards. The thing is that they lack the ability to see the same pattern in their own society. What about Greyhound Racing? Is that right for the dogs? Are they sure the dogs really like that and they are not pressing them too hard?

[Speedo1968]

1 hour ago, bert bloggs said:

Just get men to climb the trees and collect them ,oh but make sure they are white men ,or someone will be offended ????

You have to make sure that the tree is planted to slope 45 degrees when the fruit appears.

[Advocate]

Thailand's exports of coconut products to the UK are so miniscule it wouldn't make any difference to the coconut industry in Thailand if they ceased. The goods displaced can replace Thai imports of coconut products.

[Pedrogaz]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

What's the World coming to,ban everything,ban working horses,donkey's

dogs,ferrets,Falcon's and monkey's, Oh and those cormorants that the

Chinese fishers use.

Then have a think and come up with other things someone does not

like and ban it.

regards worgeordie

My thoughts exactly. World gone crazy.

[Pedrogaz]

What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US.

[BritManToo]

Just now, Pedrogaz said:

What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US.

The supermarkets are probably scared of the hordes of looney lefties that will destroy their shops if they don't.

[dbrenn]

2 hours ago, Brianbighead said:

They should ban all the seafood too. 

A lot of slaves used in the fishing industry.

People with their hands in freezing water all day peeling prawns for pennies

Freezing waters? In Thailand?

[dbrenn]

4 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US.

Well said. I get sick of all this moralising from places that really should clean up their own act.

[sungod]

Stop the exploitation of the donkeys at Weymouth beach too!

[Misterwhisper]

I have only yesterday resolved to forthwith ban myself from taking advantage of the earthworms fertilizing, loosening and aerating the soil in my garden. I can no longer have it on my conscience to engage in such animal cruelty just so I can harvest fresh vegetables, the selfish individual that I am.   

[tifino]

just because the poor little boogers don't wash their hands...

   - showing a human trait really... 

 

 

[Brianbighead]

15 minutes ago, dbrenn said:

Freezing waters? In Thailand?

Yeh the prawns are kept in ice cold water as they peel them, sitting on a 10 baht plastic seat all day

[Brianbighead]

21 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US.

They are not meddling

Up to them where they purchase from

Thailand has got away with a LOT for years now

Slavery and slave labour is alive and kicking in Thailand to this day

[dbrenn]

6 minutes ago, Brianbighead said:

Yeh the prawns are kept in ice cold water as they peel them, sitting on a 10 baht plastic seat all day

Reminds me of when I was young. Holiday job shovelling coal from a heap into a wheelbarrow, then into a boiler house store, in the middle of a UK winter. 

 

Cold hands peeling prawns? At least they get a 10 Baht stool to sit on.

 

Diddums. People are so delicate these days. 

[CGW]

29 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US.

Is it not "divide & rule" create as much dissent as possible, fund and encourage any and all diversity, no matter how ridiculous, then the "Governments" can continue to rule with impunity, keep the masses occupied, is that not the real reason folks like Soros fund all these splinter groups, surely they don't actually care do they?

[Grumpy John]

Not sure how you can have a go at the greatest leader the free world has ever had in a thread about banning monkeys picking coconuts in Thailand???  I guess still butt hurt after 3.6 years! ????

 

As for the monkeys, the ones I have seen working around here are well feed, willing to work and could if peeved chew off the hand of the handler....unlike some human monkeys around here who you are hard pressed to get a days work out of.