The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called for an end to what it says as Thailand's use of monkey labor in its coconut industry, following an expose on the use of the animal, fitted with tight metal collars and chained for life, to harvest coconut. Thailand’s coconut-picking monkeys, long a popular tourist attraction, have become a sensitive trade issue as British activists claim the animals … Footage and pictures of chained up monkeys being forced to work to get coconuts from trees for milk and other products. Mid coconuts hanging off tree3. Monkeys pick 99 percent of the Thai coconuts sold for their oil and flesh, he says.” “Schroevers runs the Monkey Training School in Surat Thani, Thailand, a Buddhist-inspired school founded 50 years ago to teach monkeys how to pick coconuts without the use of force or violence.” July 9, 2020 PETA investigators visited eight farms where they discovered monkeys are forced to pick up to 1,000 coconuts a day for Thailand’s major coconut milk producers—Aroy-D and Chaokoh, according to the Daily Mail. BANGKOK (Reuters) - A monkey trainer in southern Thailand said on Saturday that few monkeys are involved in harvesting coconuts for export, disputing an … Wide of coconut farms 2. 15,000 Stores Ban Coconut Products Made Through Forced Monkey Labor After an investigation exposed the cruel practices of coconut farms in Thailand, Walgreens, Duane Reade, Stop & Shop, and many more retailers will no longer carry products made with coconuts picked by chained monkeys. (14 Sep 2010) SHOTLISTSurat Thani Province, Thailand - 25 July, 20101. A total of 13 plantations were identified for using monkey slave labor in Southern Thailand. Training monkeys to pick coconuts is a 400-year-old practise in Thailand; there's even a Buddhist school for that very purpose, which promotes training without force or violence. Major retailers across the US are choosing to stock Thai-made coconut products even after an investigation alleged they were made with forced monkey labor.. Chaokoh is … The practise is common in places such as India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka too. by Anna Starostinetskaya. The drink's Thailand-based manufacturer Theppadungporn Coconut Co. was accused of using monkeys in Thailand to pick coconuts and keeping them in cruel conditions. July 7, 2020 Peta Asia has confirmed that macaque monkeys … ... enslaved monkeys by shunning coconut products from Thailand. Waitrose has banned selling coconut products from Thailand following the discovery of monkey slavery being a part of the manufacturing process.