PETA accused of cultural racism and double-standards

[webfact]

PETA accused of cultural racism and double-standards

 

 

US-based animal rights protection group PETA has been accused of double standards and cultural racism after it claimed that the use of monkeys in harvesting coconuts in Thailand is cruel, and its call to ban Thai coconut products.

 

In his Facebook post today, Mr. Atthawich Suwanpakdee, secretary-general of the Kla Party, asked about the difference between the use of monkeys to pick coconuts in Thailand and the use of pigs in the search for truffles in Europe.

 

He said that the use of monkeys and pigs are two different cultures and both are respectable, adding that, in Thailand, monkeys and men work together to pick coconuts, with the animals being properly trained at special schools.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/peta-accused-of-cultural-racism-and-double-standards/

 

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[RandolphGB]

It’s not necessarily the act of monkeys picking coconuts, it’s the conditions they’re kept in and the training methods they endure to be animal slaves in that industry. 

[4MyEgo]

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

cultural racism

Oh please............. typical response by a bunch of Xenophobes caught in the act, like spoilt uneducated children, man up you got busted, how lucky were you lot that no photos were taken by the farangs pointing the finger/s at you ????

  

[Pravda]

He is absolutely right. 

 

Clean your smelly <deleted> at home first before jumping on that high horse.

[sprq]

Pigs enjoy looking for truffles, and they're not abused into doing it. The opposite is true for monkeys collecting coconuts. Wake up, Attawich.

[Snackbar]

Monkey Special school, says a lot.

[rupert the bear]

its the slaves on the trawlers and the in the factories which is a big concern and that needs sanctions.monkeys enjoy climbing trees but the training methods are what must be looked into,we see young elephants battered with iron hooks in the elephant shows and performances ,some are treated well others poorly hence a need for legislation and enforcement

[Cali farong]

MLM. Monkey lives matter 

[Yinn]

Schroevers runs the Monkey Training School in Surat Thani, Thailand, a Buddhist-inspired school founded 50 years ago to teach monkeys how to pick coconuts without the use of force or violence. He says Animal Place has it all wrong when it comes to how most monkeys that work on coconut farms are treated.

 

link.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/19/448960760/monkeys-pick-coconuts-in-thailand-are-they-abused-or-working-animals

[NCC1701A]

Here we come
Walkin' down the street
We get the funniest looks from
Everyone we meet

Hey, hey, we're the Monkees
And people say we monkey around
But we're too busy singing
To put anybody down

[MobileContent]

18 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

It’s not necessarily the act of monkeys picking coconuts, it’s the conditions they’re kept in and the training methods they endure to be animal slaves in that industry. 

You are spot on. I have seen in the South how the monkeys are trained from a small age onward's and it doesn't looks very good and sure is cruel but they are now mainly used for tourist attractions.

 

 

[seajae]

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

Schroevers runs the Monkey Training School in Surat Thani, Thailand, a Buddhist-inspired school founded 50 years ago to teach monkeys how to pick coconuts without the use of force or violence. He says Animal Place has it all wrong when it comes to how most monkeys that work on coconut farms are treated.

 

link.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/19/448960760/monkeys-pick-coconuts-in-thailand-are-they-abused-or-working-animals

this is the best monkey school around, somjai is brilliant and the monkees are very well taken care of, she trains then the same way her father did, no force and rewards, anyone that goes there can see just how well they are treated, I spent a lot of time there over a couple of years so saw first hand just how well they were treated and taken care of. Peta is full of sh#t and anyone that believes anything they say are idiots, they are just as bad as blm and antifa, they will stoop to any lengths to push their garbage as can be seen from what they have done in the past. At one time they were stealing peoples pets and killing them till they were caught out, they are scum

[Darkside Gray]

19 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

It’s not necessarily the act of monkeys picking coconuts, it’s the conditions they’re kept in and the training methods they endure to be animal slaves in that industry. 

Sorry just cannot go with this!

[Sujo]

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Schroevers runs the Monkey Training School in Surat Thani, Thailand, a Buddhist-inspired school founded 50 years ago to teach monkeys how to pick coconuts without the use of force or violence. He says Animal Place has it all wrong when it comes to how most monkeys that work on coconut farms are treated.

 

link.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/19/448960760/monkeys-pick-coconuts-in-thailand-are-they-abused-or-working-animals

Your english has become better than native english speakers, all of a sudden.

[Logosone]

PETA is holding Waitrose croissants hostage in the UK.

 

Due to this monkey business Waitrose croissants have disappeared from Tops.

 

Are people aware that PETA has backed litigation trying to give a monkey the right to a selfie?

 

That they tried to litigate that whales were being kept as "slaves".

 

These dangerous lunatics like PETA, ANTIFA and all the other organized disturbed have-nots have to be fought at all cost. I will be buying Thai coconut milk in protest.

[Lemonltr]

The cruel French are depriving pigs from being kept in a small pen and eaten. 

Pigs are not wild animals they are human food. Even in Thailand. 

[khunjeff]

Have I been following the pronouncements in this matter accurately?

 

1) "Monkeys don't actually pick coconuts commercially, they only do it for tourist shows"

 

2) "Well, monkeys do pick coconuts on some commercial plantations, but they're well treated so it isn't an issue"

 

3) "Yes, we use monkey labor, but what about your damned farang pig slaves?!?"

[n00dle]

32 minutes ago, seajae said:

this is the best monkey school around, somjai is brilliant and the monkees are very well taken care of, she trains then the same way her father did, no force and rewards, anyone that goes there can see just how well they are treated, I spent a lot of time there over a couple of years so saw first hand just how well they were treated and taken care of. Peta is full of sh#t and anyone that believes anything they say are idiots, they are just as bad as blm and antifa, they will stoop to any lengths to push their garbage as can be seen from what they have done in the past. At one time they were stealing peoples pets and killing them till they were caught out, they are scum

all fine and good - if only this were the sole place training the animals and there were a guarantee that all owners were kind folk.

[Paiman]

Over the top. Soon........Horses forced to race........blah blah blah

[Jane Dough]

19 hours ago, sprq said:

Pigs enjoy looking for truffles, and they're not abused into doing it. The opposite is true for monkeys collecting coconuts. Wake up, Attawich.

Have you confirmed that by speaking to the monkeys?

 

I think if I was one I'd quite enjoy going up trees for a living.

 

Rooster

[brianthainess]

I had a badly trained monkey on my roof, now it leaks, oh sorry that was the builder.

[n00dle]

2 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

I had a badly trained monkey on my roof, now it leaks, oh sorry that was the builder.

i see what you did there, because thais are monkeys.

what hoot you are!

[Dionigi]

20 hours ago, sprq said:

Pigs enjoy looking for truffles, and they're not abused into doing it. The opposite is true for monkeys collecting coconuts. Wake up, Attawich.

The truffles are also taken away, with the pig probably only given one from all the ones it finds. Now that's abuse.

[khunPer]

21 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

It’s not necessarily the act of monkeys picking coconuts, it’s the conditions they’re kept in and the training methods they endure to be animal slaves in that industry. 

Wonder what conditions Western industrial animals are kept in; like pigs, chickens and calves...????

[Gillyflower]

20 minutes ago, Dionigi said:

The truffles are also taken away, with the pig probably only given one from all the ones it finds. Now that's abuse.

With the price of truffles, I very much doubt that the pig gets one.  They are enormously expensive.

[Meat Pie 47]

1 hour ago, Paiman said:

Over the top. Soon........Horses forced to race........blah blah blah

And Greyhounds

[Venom]

5 hours ago, rupert the bear said:

its the slaves on the trawlers and the in the factories which is a big concern and that needs sanctions.monkeys enjoy climbing trees but the training methods are what must be looked into,we see young elephants battered with iron hooks in the elephant shows and performances ,some are treated well others poorly hence a need for legislation and enforcement

Some would argue that 320 baht a day is slave wages. 

[CorpusChristie]

The UK complaining that Monkeys climbing trees , whilst the UK allows Men to ride horses , using dogs to hunt and kill foxes .

[Orton Rd]

cultural racism, passive racism, systemic racism, historic racism, I'm sick of hearing the word stuck on everything and everyone the loonies disagree with

[Orton Rd]

22 minutes ago, Venom said:

Some would argue that 320 baht a day is slave wages. 

They have been getting 136 bht an hour that in UK Leicester sweat shops, nothing done about paying a third of the minimum wage because the factory owners are from a certain religion, and half the exploited workers are illegal immigrants, can't be accused of racism so they have left it, until now.