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Jersey Town, N.J. – Entire Meals Northeast Area President Nicole Wescoe gets an extraordinary present this week: PETA is sending the manager an armload of human-picked coconuts at the side of a letter urging her to prohibit Thai coconut milk from the corporate’s retail outlets and provide chain.
Thailand’s coconut-picking trade is fueled by way of the exertions of endangered pig-tailed macaques—lots of whom had been illegally snatched from their wooded area houses as small children. Handlers are compatible them with inflexible steel collars, use chains and leashes to choke and regulate them, and would possibly pull out their dog enamel in order that they may be able to’t shield themselves. Since the trade and the Thai govt lie about their systemic reliance on pressured monkey exertions, it’s not possible to ensure that any coconut milk from Thailand is freed from it.
“Entire Meals’ choice to proceed promoting Thai coconut milk, together with via its personal 365 by way of Entire Meals Marketplace logo, reveals a willful fail to remember for monkeys being abducted and used as coconut-picking machines,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is asking on Entire Meals to forestall supporting Thailand’s abusive coconut trade and get Thai coconut milk off its cabinets in an instant.”
One in all Entire Meals’ coconut milk providers was once implicated in PETA Asia’s newest investigation into the industry, however the corporate didn’t act after PETA offered it with this data. PETA is sending a letter and coconuts to every of Entire Meals’ 9 regional presidents.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to abuse in anyway”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please seek advice from PETA.org, pay attention to The PETA Podcast, or observe the crowd on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.