HelloFresh Drops Thai Coconut Milk After Peta’s Monkey Labour Drive

[webfact]

A chained monkey forced to pick coconuts for hours. The Thai headline says, “Don’t torture monkeys.” Photo: Sanook.com

 

By The Guardian, Daily Mail and Sanook.com

 

MEAL kit provider HelloFresh, which is based in Berlin, Germany, said it will no longer sell coconut milk sourced from Thailand as it does not support any form of animal cruelty across its supply chain, the company announced on Monday (Mar. 6).

 

The move is in line with many brands in the West that have stopped selling some Thai coconut products over recent years after campaigning by Peta, which said that it had investigated Thai coconut farms and found chained monkeys that were forced to spend long hours climbing trees and picking coconut. Abuse of primates was “rampant”, the group has said.

 

It also called on Thai government officials to investigate the abuse of the monkeys at these coconut plantations.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/03/08/hellofresh-drops-thai-coconut-milk-after-petas-monkey-labour-drive/

 

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[grain]

"were forced to spend long hours climbing trees and picking coconut." That's what monkeys do...they climb trees and pick things. 

Edited March 8, 2023 by grain

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

It also called on Thai government officials to investigate the abuse of the monkeys at these coconut plantations.

Wasn't this whitewashed by the Thai coconut plantation owners a couple of years ago?

[jacko45k]

53 minutes ago, grain said:

"were forced to spend long hours climbing trees and picking coconut." That's what monkeys do...they climb trees and pick things. 

In through hotel  windows and pick off your belongings in one place I stayed!

[mikebell]

Meanwhile Thailand is burning and Thais are killing each other on the roads.

[LennyW]

Let the more advanced "monkeys" climb the trees and you wouldn't be able to afford the coconut milk anyway!

[ignore it]

Monkeys go ape in boycott of HelloFresh products.

Big Boss Monkey states

"First they start shipping us to China to be dinner, now they stop us from working!

When will this monkeys business end?"