SAMUT SONGKRAM (Thailand), July 23 — Thai coconut milk producer, Theppadungporn Coconut, suffered a sharp drop in sales after an animal rights groups accused the industry of using monkey labour, an executive said, adding it was auditing plantations to show animals were not used. Several British...
Thursday, 23 Jul 2020 07:21 PM MYT
Several British retailers pulled Thai coconut products from their shelves earlier this month after a report by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals alleged that coconuts in Thailand are picked by abused monkeys. Peta has rejected the Thai government’s claim that use of monkeys was almost “non-existent”. Its report said the majority of Thai coconuts were harvested by monkeys caught from the wild.
Coconuts are overwhelmingly collected by humans using poles, Aphisak and the Thai authorities have said.
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