Thai coconut-milk producer Chaokoh say there is no monkey business going on in the production of their products, in response to a PETA investigation.
The US-based animal rights non-profit organisation conducted an investigation in 2019 singling out Chaokoh for the abuse of young monkeys in Thailand. PETA’s report alleged monkeys are “chained, abused, and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts that are used to make coconut milk, meat, flour, oil, and other products.”
As a consequence of PETA’s findings, the US is considering a ban on all Chaokoh products. PETA’s latest campaign to get retailers to pull Chaokoh products from their shelves has now accumulated more than 95,000 supporters.
US-based superstore franchise, Walmart, is now the latest major retailer to drop the coconut milk brand after allegations of forced monkey labor surfaced.
But PETA Executive Vice President…
