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Posted: 1/26/2021 10:10:58 PM EDT

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In 2018, the Global Slavery Index estimated that there are approximately 3.8 million people enslaved in China.

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:20:36 PM EDT

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Threaten their dental plan?

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:26:42 PM EDT

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As a reward for their work the monkeys were given candy - Rhesus pieces.

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:39:54 PM EDT

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I'd actually be willing to pay a small premium for certified forced monkey labor coconut milk. Like if we could get an FDA stamp or something. I don't want any of that knockoff stuff.

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:43:49 PM EDT

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Came here to post this. Wow, picked by a real monkey!!!

The mascot could be a discerning monkey butler in a suit

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:45:04 PM EDT

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jebus.....our idiot state(where costco came from) tried to ban dwarf tossing.....guess what? turns out the dwarfs didn't want it banned!

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:45:07 PM EDT

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Target is the latest company to drop Chaokoh coconut milk over allegations of forced monkey labor.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, said the retailer will no longer sell the product because of its alleged ties to monkey labor.

Chaokoh's Thai supplier is accused of forcing monkeys to pick coconuts from the trees, CNN reported.

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https://abc7chicago.com/target-chaokoh-coconut-milk-forced-monkey-labor-costco/10030001/

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Lol, that's going to lead to all those monkeys being turned into bushmeat.

Idiots.

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:45:09 PM EDT

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Offer babnanas in exchange for coconuts

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:45:47 PM EDT

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Target is the latest company to drop Chaokoh coconut milk over allegations of forced monkey labor.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, said the retailer will no longer sell the product because of its alleged ties to monkey labor.

Chaokoh's Thai supplier is accused of forcing monkeys to pick coconuts from the trees, CNN reported.

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WOW, seriously? WOW...

I guess the LIBS should be skin stretched for having cats...

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:46:49 PM EDT

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When are Nike and Apple getting canceled for using HUMAN slave labor?

Posted: 1/26/2021 10:47:54 PM EDT

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Ooofffff!

Posted: 1/26/2021 11:39:26 PM EDT

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@Aimless

Do they need some "chocolate milk?"

Posted: 1/26/2021 11:46:01 PM EDT

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What do you call a monkey when he is laid off of his coconut collecting job?

Bush meat

That is not a joke, just reality

Posted: 1/26/2021 11:50:29 PM EDT

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I bet the coalition for the liberation of itinerant tree-dwellers is pissed.

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Posted: 1/26/2021 11:56:29 PM EDT

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Between mandatory masks & monkey slave sensitivity, Costco is woke as fuck, anymore.

Slavery is wrong because people aren't animals. Animal slaves are called...working animals.

Posted: 1/26/2021 11:59:09 PM EDT

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LOL, "look for the union label"

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:01:44 AM EDT

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You beat it. Monkeys that pick the cocinuts, get babnanna monkeys that dont, get the stick.

it works, Or it spends the night in the box. It picks coconuts.. , Or it spends the night in the box. It makes quota, , Or it spends the night in the box etc..

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:05:07 AM EDT

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Funny how the western colonizer bullshit mentality becomes perfectly fine and justifiable whenever the "people of color" start doing anything the left disapproves of. I have no authority, nor any right, to tell people in another country how to run their shit. If Thailand wants to introduce monkies into the labor pool? Good for them. In some cases I vehemently disagree with other cultures, like stoning a woman for getting raped or eating dogs, but in their own sovereign land, it's their own sovereign choice.

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This right here.

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:06:00 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/27/2021 12:08:23 AM EDT

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I don’t like coconut milk. But, if Costco straps a monkey to the side of a four pack for $16.99, it would make for a tempting purchase.

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:09:54 AM EDT

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It is nut juice and not milk. Stop calling it what it is not.

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:15:01 AM EDT

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Been going on since the 60s, apparently.

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:25:20 AM EDT

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Should any company that uses animals be similarly shunned?

Using dogs for herding or security?
Using pigs to hunt truffles?
Using horses for transportation?

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What about locking ‘em up and charging people to come look at feed them? Or forcing them to guide our blind people around? They’re animals...though those monkies are probably happy to help because they’re probably fed. As long as they’re not abused wio cares what animal is a working animal?

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:28:29 AM EDT

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That is THE best coconut milk. I tried a bunch of brands before discovering it.
I’ll be pissed if I can’t find it anymore. Like when they started selling dolphin free tuna.

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:30:55 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/27/2021 12:35:51 AM EDT

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First Post smashed it, again.

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:36:27 AM EDT

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Been going on since the 60s, apparently.

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You win the thread.

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:38:57 AM EDT

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You beat it. Monkeys that pick the cocinuts, get babnanna monkeys that dont, get the stick.

it works, Or it spends the night in the box. It picks coconuts.. , Or it spends the night in the box. It makes quota, , Or it spends the night in the box etc..

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How do you force a monkey to work?

You beat it. Monkeys that pick the cocinuts, get babnanna monkeys that dont, get the stick.

it works, Or it spends the night in the box. It picks coconuts.. , Or it spends the night in the box. It makes quota, , Or it spends the night in the box etc..

Do you want your face ripped off? because that is how you get your face ripped off

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:45:35 AM EDT

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Nothing beats a tall glass of monkey
labor coconut milk to rinse down
that clubbed baby seal sandwich.

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:56:22 AM EDT

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now I am thirsty and Hungry

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:56:40 AM EDT

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How do you force a monkey to work?

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Offer babnanas in exchange for coconuts

But if you offer payment, are you really "forcing" it?

Posted: 1/27/2021 12:58:03 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/27/2021 1:02:42 AM EDT

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Honestly anyone that can train monkeys to do this deserves my business.

Posted: 1/27/2021 1:25:00 AM EDT

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You beat it. Monkeys that pick the cocinuts, get babnanna monkeys that dont, get the stick.

it works, Or it spends the night in the box. It picks coconuts.. , Or it spends the night in the box. It makes quota, , Or it spends the night in the box etc..

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How do you force a monkey to work?

You beat it. Monkeys that pick the cocinuts, get babnanna monkeys that dont, get the stick.

it works, Or it spends the night in the box. It picks coconuts.. , Or it spends the night in the box. It makes quota, , Or it spends the night in the box etc..

There is one thing you must be sure of. I can't take any more. Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey!

Posted: 1/27/2021 6:45:05 AM EDT

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Using horses for transportation?

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I'm pretty sure one of Costco's coffee offerings make a big deal about using donkeys on the slopes...

Kharn

Posted: 1/27/2021 6:48:39 AM EDT

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Indeed. And imprisoned work labor forces as well. Don’t question how minced garlic got into those jars. Pretty disgusting if what I’ve read is true.

Posted: 1/27/2021 6:59:11 AM EDT

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Wasnt this the beginning of that one Planet of the Apes?

There was a Chinese dude whod sit on busy street corners after the bars closed when I was in Shanghai that had a capuchin monkey he'd let tourist take pictures with. I ventured over to it one night and dude had a hard metal ring collar on it. Collar was too small and the monkey spent the whole time he wasnt being plied with bananas tugging on it with his fingers to get it loose. You could see the desperation in the little guy's eyes. I felt terrible and never went to that corner again.

Posted: 1/27/2021 7:00:36 AM EDT

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Get em addicted to meth, reward them with a small bump for every 20 coconuts.

I could raze fern gully to dust with a couple monkeys and a few ounces of ice.

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How do you force a monkey to work?

I'd like to know this too.

Get em addicted to meth, reward them with a small bump for every 20 coconuts.

I could raze fern gully to dust with a couple monkeys and a few ounces of ice.

You son of a bitch, Im in.

Posted: 1/27/2021 7:07:21 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/27/2021 7:08:51 AM EDT

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But they’re OK with slave labor for much of the chinese shit they sell.

Posted: 1/27/2021 7:12:58 AM EDT

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It's going to be really ironic when the coconut plantations have to put down a bunch of out of work monkeys because of this.

Much like how African parks had to put down a bunch of lions after the safari hunting ban.

Unintended consequences, how do they work?

Posted: 1/27/2021 7:15:11 AM EDT

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Using horses for transportation?

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According to PETA, just having a pet is cruel.

Posted: 1/27/2021 7:16:43 AM EDT

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Or how do you get a monkey to work without forcing it?

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Put a banana in the back seat?

Posted: 1/27/2021 7:18:48 AM EDT

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Bah-Dum-Tissh!

Posted: 1/27/2021 7:27:15 AM EDT

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Monkeys gonna have to learn to code now too. That will really be something.

Posted: 1/27/2021 10:59:09 AM EDT

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Too late, that explains a lot about software quality these days.

Posted: 1/27/2021 11:06:16 AM EDT

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I always wondered if coconuts picked themselves, I guess they don't.

Animals of all types are used for work all over the planet. Soon these stores will piss enough people off about enough things and they will go under.

Posted: 1/27/2021 11:10:02 AM EDT

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Nah, they'll just be out of work, here's their backup plan

https://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-monkeys-the-concept-of-money-not-long-after-the-first-prostitute-monkey-appeared/

"It took several months of training for the capuchins to learn that they could exchange such a token for fruit. After they understood this, each monkey was given 12 tokens to decide on how to spend it on food valued at different prices.

Researchers observed that the monkeys could even budget. Researchers then changed the market and put Jell-O at a lower price, to see if monkeys would buy fewer grapes and more Jell-O. They acted exactly like the current laws of economics dictate for humans as well."

"Something else happened then too. Grasping the notion of currency simply means you understand that you can exchange money for goods and services. Well, one of the researchers, during the chaotic episode mentioned earlier, observed how one of the monkeys exchanged money with another for sex. After the act was over, the monkey which was paid immediately used it to buy a grape…"

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They are us, we are them. lol Thats so funny.