BBC reported that several British companies, panicked by PETA, have "vowed to stop selling" "any products sourced from monkey labour."
Male monkeys are able to pick up to 1,000 coconuts a day, Peta says. It's thought that a human can pick about 80.
It said it also discovered "monkey schools", where the animals were trained to pick fruit, as well as ride bikes or play basketball for the entertainment of tourists.
As usual, PETA describes the worst case as normative. That's when they don't outright lie: I read what they wrote of treatment of cows in Wisconsin--did they think we who live here don't have eyes?
I gather that the companies are perfectly happy to have humans do this harvesting instead--which is much more difficult and dangerous for a human than for a monkey. Priorities, you understand...
Wasn't there once an advertising slogan "Untouched by human hands?"
Considering that PETA kills a lot of animals themselves, it's hypocritical of them to comment on use of monkeys to pick coconuts.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be cool to watch.
ReplyDeleteIt would indeed. When someone, or something, is really good at a hard job, it's fascinating.
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