Meal kit giant, HelloFresh, accused of using monkey labor to source coconut milk(futurism.com)
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Meal kit giant, HelloFresh, accused of using monkey labor to source coconut milk
https://futurism.com/the-byte/meal-kit-hellofresh-monkey-labor
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"the claim is that the trendy delivery company was using monkey labor in Thailand in which the animals were 'chained, whipped, beaten, and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts.'"
Aside from a barely comprehensible lack of empathy and ethics... what is the legal situation here? Animal abuse sure... but having them work under good conditions? Would that be legal?
Don't get me wrong, monkeys should be monkeys and do monkey things. I'm just curious.
Don't get me wrong, monkeys should be monkeys and do monkey things. I'm just curious.
It looks like it at least violates this law: https://dld.go.th/th/images/stories/law/english/en_cruelty_p....
Dogs, water buffalo, horses are all working animals too. I think it boils down to how they are treated.
I don't have any problem with giving monkeys a job, but it does appear they were abused in this case
This is the most r/NoahGetTheBoat thing I've read this week.
> PETA claims its investigators visited a whopping 57 operations in Thailand where coconut milk companies that work with HelloFresh forced the animals to work in incredibly dangerous and unsanitary conditions.
> "HelloFresh strictly condemns any use of monkey labor in its supply chain and we take a hard position of not procuring from suppliers or selling coconut products which have been found to use monkey labor," a spokesperson said. "We have written confirmation from all of our suppliers globally that they do not engage in these practices."
Whether or not HelloFresh uses suppliers that engage in this practice isn't what I care about.
And I understand that economic conditions in Thailand aren't like they are in wealthier countries.
But what I find mind-boggling is that the people doing this can clearly deduce that monkeys are intelligent enough to be _workers_, and yet they still decide to chain and beat them instead of reaching some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement we see often in nature between two species, and also with other animal/human relationships.
> PETA claims its investigators visited a whopping 57 operations in Thailand where coconut milk companies that work with HelloFresh forced the animals to work in incredibly dangerous and unsanitary conditions.
> "HelloFresh strictly condemns any use of monkey labor in its supply chain and we take a hard position of not procuring from suppliers or selling coconut products which have been found to use monkey labor," a spokesperson said. "We have written confirmation from all of our suppliers globally that they do not engage in these practices."
Whether or not HelloFresh uses suppliers that engage in this practice isn't what I care about.
And I understand that economic conditions in Thailand aren't like they are in wealthier countries.
But what I find mind-boggling is that the people doing this can clearly deduce that monkeys are intelligent enough to be _workers_, and yet they still decide to chain and beat them instead of reaching some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement we see often in nature between two species, and also with other animal/human relationships.
I mean to be fair, plenty of people would also chain and beat other humans if given the chance, as history has shown.
@dang can we change to original source: https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/hellofresh-under-fi...
Trying to unwrap this headline, and still struggling.
Have you considered reading the article, you know, for more information and context?
Oh I read the article and know what the article says, but the headline is still a mess. I’m imagining monkeys in cubicles at hello fresh corporate frantically dialing coconut milk vendors