By far the strangest headline of this young year.
PETA is celebrating after Target announced that they will no longer sell coconut milk made by the Thai-based company Chaokoh over allegations they use “forced monkey labor”.
Fox Business reports that PETA:
“…conducted two undercover investigations that found primates are forced to pick coconuts all day with chains around their necks. The group’s probe found “cruelty to monkeys on every farm, at every monkey-training facility, and in every coconut-picking contest that used monkey labor.
When not being forced to pick coconuts or perform in circus-style shows for tourists, the animals were kept tethered, chained to old tires, or confined to cages barely larger than their bodies,” PETA wrote in a news release.”
Of course, Target used the PETA investigation to grandstand and virtue signal in a press release saying “we believe in the humane treatment of animals and expect those who do business with us to do the same.”
We’ve got questions: how do you distinguish between “monkey labor” and “forced monkey labor”?
Are the bomb sniffing dogs you see at airports considered “K-9 labor” or “forced K-9 labor”?