Following a PETA campaign and two PETA Asia undercover investigations<\/strong><\/a> into the use of chained and caged monkeys in Thailand\u2019s coconut-picking industry, Boise-based Albertsons<\/strong> and its subsidiary Safeway<\/strong> have ended their sale of coconut milk from major producer Chaokoh.<\/p>\n PETA\u2019s campaign included video footage sent to the company, e-mails from tens of thousands of the group\u2019s members and supporters, a delivery of humanely<\/em> picked coconuts to the company\u2019s president and four executives, and \u201cmonkey\u201d mascots who dumped hundreds <\/em>of such coconuts outside the company\u2019s headquarters. Photos are <\/strong>available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA life as a chained-up coconut-picking machine is no life at all for a monkey, who needs to play, eat, and explore with family members,\u201d says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. \u201cSince PETA expos\u00e9s have confirmed cover-ups of cruelty on coconut farms, no grocery store with a conscience can keep Chaokoh on its shelves, and Albertsons should be commended for taking action.\u201d<\/p>\n PETA Asia\u2019s first investigation found cruelty to monkeys on every farm, at every monkey-training facility, and in every coconut-picking contest that used monkey labor. When not being forced to pick coconuts or perform in circus-style shows for tourists, the animals were kept tethered, chained to old tires, or confined to cages barely larger than their bodies. After a global outcry, the coconut industry claimed to have changed this practice\u2014but PETA Asia\u2019s second investigation found producers still using monkey labor and industry insiders discussing how farms conceal this practice by simply hiding monkeys until auditors leave or by hiring contractors to bring in monkeys only during harvest time.<\/p>\n Albertsons is now among more than 30,000 stores\u2014including chains Wegmans, Costco, Target, Food Lion, and Stop & Shop\u2014that have cut ties with coconut milk brands that use coconuts picked by monkeys. PETA is now <\/strong>turning its attention<\/strong><\/a> to other retailers that still do business with Chaokoh, including Kroger, Walmart, and Publix.<\/strong><\/p>\n Photos from the most recent investigation are available here<\/a>, and broadcast-quality footage is available upon request. PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to abuse in any way\u201d\u2014opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org<\/strong><\/a> or follow the group on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, or Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Albertsons Drops Coconut Milk Tied to Monkey Labor After PETA Push<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This post was originally published on Blog \u2013 PETA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following a PETA campaign and two PETA Asia undercover investigations into the use of chained and caged monkeys in Thailand\u2019s coconut-picking industry, Boise-based Albertsons and its subsidiary Safeway have ended their sale of coconut milk from major producer Chaokoh. PETA\u2019s campaign included video footage sent to the company, e-mails from tens of thousands of the… Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n The post Albertsons Drops Coconut Milk Tied to Monkey Labor After PETA Push<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3407],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119475,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119474\/revisions\/119475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}