HelloFresh logo, left, and a chained monkey in Thailand, right, in a composite image.Getty Images, PETA Asia
HelloFresh will stop buying coconut milk sourced in Thailand, Axios reported.
This followed a PETA investigation that documented forced monkey labor in Thailand.
It revealed that monkeys on HelloFresh suppliers’ coconut farms were being kept in poor conditions.
The largest meal-kit provider in the United States said it will no longer buy coconut milk from Thailand after animal rights group PETA alleged that its coconut milk was being sourced from farms that used forced monkey labor.
Axios reported that HelloFresh said it would “cease purchasing and seek new suppliers” out of an “abundance of caution” following a successful campaign by the animal-rights charity.
“We do not tolerate any form of animal abuse in our supply chain,” HelloFresh said in a statement to…
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