Forced Monkey Labor

Option_Attack · Oct 28, 2020

Apparently, monkeys are being forced to pick coconuts for some coconut milk suppliers. Then I guess they are locked up. Not sure how to take this news...as long as they aren't beaten and mistreated...I don't know... Maybe give them a salary, retirement benefits? Beats getting injected with diseases and dissected I suppose. And I have heard that some horses are forced to pull wagons and carry people, then they are locked in barns.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/costco-latest-retailer-drop-chaokoh-040126547.html

Gaslight Capital · Oct 28, 2020

Option_Attack said:
Apparently, monkeys are being forced to pick coconuts for some coconut milk suppliers. Then I guess they are locked up. Not sure how to take this news...as long as they aren't beaten and mistreated...I don't know... Maybe give them a salary, retirement benefits? Beats getting injected with diseases and dissected I suppose. And I have heard that some horses are forced to pull wagons and carry people, then they are locked in barns.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/costco-latest-retailer-drop-chaokoh-040126547.html

I admit I sort of smiled and shook my head when I read the headline and even the story this morning. But when I watched the video, and you realize how social these creatures are, it really is a disturbing treatment of animals, imo.

newwurldmn · Oct 28, 2020

Gaslight Capital said:
I admit I sort of smiled and shook my head when I read the headline and even the story this morning. But when I watched the video, and you realize how social these creatures are, it really is a disturbing treatment of animals, imo.

better than being a cow

stochastix · Oct 28, 2020

yep. farmers are scumbags the way they treat cows

Gaslight Capital · Oct 28, 2020

newwurldmn said:
better than being a cow

I'm not sure you could say one or the other has it worse. In either case creatures meant to have a degree of freedom and sociability are denied.

I am no vegan and have no problem grilling the ribeyes. But I do find factory farming abhorrent.

They · Oct 28, 2020

Gaslight Capital said:
I'm not sure you could say one or the other has it worse. In either case creatures meant to have a degree of freedom and sociability are denied.

I am no vegan and have no problem grilling the ribeyes. But I do find factory farming abhorrent.

Cognitive dissonance

Overnight · Oct 28, 2020

PETA is the last org that should be opening their yap about "Thai monkeys picking coconuts."

Shameful!

https://petakillsanimals.com/proof-peta-kills/#why-peta-kills

Option_Attack · Oct 28, 2020

Maybe they do get paid! Here they are checking out a new car they bought:

Overnight · Oct 28, 2020

stochastix said:
yep. farmers are scumbags the way they treat cows

Those Jap cows get the best life a living creature can have before they get the bullet to the head.

stochastix · Oct 28, 2020

stochastix said:
yep. farmers are scumbags the way they treat cows

cows are very social creatures. one time my mom witnessed a group of cows that had gathered around one who had died, and one cow was mooing. she said it was quite surreal and resembled a funeral. of course that could be said to be anthropomorphization but humans do share a lot of genetic overlap with them. of course, that doesn't prevent humans from killing each other either. factory farming of meat is also hugely energy inefficient, https://civileats.com/2019/02/25/ho...y-in-california-is-disrupting-the-status-quo/