Target and Costco no longer sell coconut milk that is collected by monkeys

Following in the footsteps of Costco, supermarket chain Target has recalled a coconut milk related to itI do forced labor with monkeys.

According to him New York PostAnimal rights organization PETA has put pressure on major supermarket chains to stop selling coconut milk from Thai company Chaokoh after more than a year of investigation that linked it to the use of chained monkeys to harvest the coconuts. More than 26,000 stores have recalled the product, including those at Costco, Wegmans, Food Lion, Stop & Shop y Target.

“By leaving Chaokoh, Target is joining thousands of stores refusing to capitalize on the misery of chained monkeys,” said Tracy Reiman, PETA’s executive vice president in a statement. PETA exhibits have confirmed that Thai coconut growers are exploiting and lying about monkeys, so there is no excuse for a supermarket. keep Chaokoh on your shelves”.

In accordance with MAP, the Thai coconut industry (including Chaokoh), the Thai Food Processors Association and the Thai Ambassador to the United States are misleading brands and consumers about the use of monkeys for this forced labor. MAP Asia assures that the macaques are still operated on many farms and these are the “monkey schools” for harvesting coconuts continue to work.

A series of videos published by the association reveals that young monkeys they are chained, trained in a certain way offensive and forced to climb trees all day long To pick them up coconuts that later are used to make milk, meat, flour, oil and other products from the fruit:

Many monkeys, mostly pigtailed southern macaques, are illegally abducted from their families and homes when they are just babies.. They put stiff metal collars on them and leave them attached or tied for periods long lasting.

When they are forced to harvest coconuts, they are refused freedom of movement, social contact with others or whatever what has meaning for them. These intelligent primates go crazy slowly. Driven to despair, they walk from side to side and endlessly in circles in the bare spaces of the earth filled with garbage where they are chained..

Target explained it to the New York Post who concluded remove products from Chaokoh in November last year. “We believe in a humane treatment direction animals and we hope that those who do business with us do the same, ”writes a spokesperson for the chain from supermarkets it is a statement. “We take complaints seriously against Chaokoh, and because they could not refute sufficiently expressed the concerns, we have made the decision to remove their product from our range ”.