For Immediate Release:
June 12, 2023
Contact:
Sara Groves 202-483-7382
Washington – Because Whole Foods is selling coconut milk from Thailand—including through its own 365 by Whole Foods Market brand—even though PETA Asia investigations have revealed that monkeys in that country are caged, kept in isolation, chained for life, and trained through fear of punishment to pick coconuts, PETA “monkeys” will dump wheelbarrows full of humanely picked coconuts outside Whole Foods’ P Street store as part of a new international campaign against the company. The action follows PETA’s successful campaign against HelloFresh, which will no longer obtain coconut milk from Thailand.
When: Wednesday, June 14, 12 noon
Where: Outside Whole Foods, 1440 P St. N.W., Washington
Many monkeys used in Thailand’s coconut-picking industry are abducted from their forest homes as babies….
