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Costco stops selling Thailand coconut milk because of monkey labor – Insider – INSIDER
The PETA investigation says that the monkeys are forced to pick up 1,000 coconuts a day.
Costco is pulling coconut milk from a Thai supplier off its shelves after PETA published an undercover investigation accusing it of relying on monkey labor to harvest its coconuts.
In a press release on Thursday, the animal rights organization said that Costco is removing the product after an undercover investigation found that the Thailand-based producer Chaika is using “chained monkeys as coconut-picking machines.”
In its statement, the organization cites an investigation by PETA Asia published…
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