Following in the footsteps of Costco, Target supermarket chain recalled an associated coconut milkForced labor of monkeys.
According to him New York Post, the animal rights organization PETA has pressured large supermarket chains to stop selling coconut milk from Thai company Chaokoh after more than a year of investigation which linked it to the use of chained monkeys to harvest coconuts. More than 26,000 stores recalled the product, including Costco, Wegmans, Food Lion, Stop & Shop y Aim.
“Leaving Chaokoh, Target joins thousands of stores that refuse to take advantage of the misery of chained monkeys,” PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a statement. “PETA exhibitions have confirmed that Thai coconut growers are exploiting monkeys and lying about it, so there is no excuse for any grocery store keep Chaokoh on your shelves”.
In accordance with MAP, Thai coconut industry (included Chaokoh), Thai Food Processors Association and The Thai ambassador to the United States misled the marks and consumers about use of monkeys for this forced labor. MAP Asia ensure that macaques are still exploited on many farms and that “monkey schools” for harvesting coconuts keep going thing.
A series of videos published by the association reveals that young monkeys they are chained, trained in a way abusive and forced to climb trees all day To pick them up coconuts that later are used to produce milk, meat, flour, oil and other fruit products:
Many monkeys, usually southern-tailed macaques, are illegally abducted from their families and homes when they are just babies.. They put rigid metal collars on them and put them chained or tied for periods prolonged.
When they are forced to pick coconuts, they are denied freedom of movement, to socialize with others or to do anything anything is significant to them. These intelligent primates go crazy slowly. Driven to despair, they go from side to side and in endless circles in the barren spaces of the earth filled with garbage where they are chained..
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The target explained to the New York Post that decided remove products from Chaokoh in November last year. “We believe in human treatment of animals and we hope that those who do business with us will do the same, “wrote a spokesman for the chain of supermarkets is a statement. “We take the complaints seriously against Chaokoh and since they could not reject we raised enough concerns, we made the decision to eliminate their product from our assortment “.