Popular Post rooster59 Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 UK supermarkets may ban Thai coconut products over use of monkeys The Thai Animals Protection Association has urged the Commerce and Agriculture ministries to issue a clarification to British retailers quickly about the use of pigtailed macaques in the harvesting of coconuts in Thailand. Mr. Roger Lohanan, secretary-general of the association, made the call after four British retailers pledged to stop offering coconut products that use monkey labour in their production. According to a BBC report on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s conservationist fiancée, Carrie Symonds, called on all other supermarkets to stop selling the products, which include certain brands of coconut water and coconut milk. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/uk-supermarkets-may-ban-thai-coconut-products-over-use-of-monkeys/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2020-07-05 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brianbighead Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 They should ban all the seafood too. A lot of slaves used in the fishing industry. People with their hands in freezing water all day peeling prawns for pennies 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kevinsan Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 Ban the buffalo rice and all muled cocaine. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bert bloggs Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 Just get men to climb the trees and collect them ,oh but make sure they are white men ,or someone will be offended ???? 4 1 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post worgeordie Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 What's the World coming to,ban everything,ban working horses,donkey's dogs,ferrets,Falcon's and monkey's, Oh and those cormorants that the Chinese fishers use. Then have a think and come up with other things someone does not like and ban it. regards worgeordie 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo1968 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 They do it in India too... And cows go shopping ! Used to visit India regularly on farming business. Sorry couldn't paste image properly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChipButty Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 The monkeys do a better job 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonray Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Yeah...but the beefsteak section is OK...nothing like taking care of your cattle with a bolt stunner to the head. Poor monkeys don't know how bad they have it...ha ha ha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post twocatsmac Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 Monkey Lives Matter. 9 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ftpjtm Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 What effect will this have on the monkey unemployment rate? I hear it's already sky high in Lopburi. 6 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ezzra Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 Is there no end to what the bleeding hearts twerps of this world paddling their twaddle garbage platforms on the rest of the world? have they gon all nuts now with nothing better to do caring for monkeys welfare when billions of people are in much worse situations and in dire straits just to survive?... 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanuk711 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 I remember when I lived in Pattaya late 90s-- use to sit at one of the beach bars, watch the man come alone with his helper (monkey) go up pull whatever Coconuts were loose, those days the whole beach front was just Palm (Coconut) trees, Had some high winds when a few free-lancers were injured , so they decided to remove the trees..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PatOngo Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 1 hour ago, bert bloggs said: Just get men to climb the trees and collect them ,oh but make sure they are white men ,or someone will be offended ???? But the monkeys know which ones are ripe! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post colinneil Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 Carrie Simmonds wants to shut up, just trying to get her name in the spotlight. If she is so concerned about animal welfare, she should put her energies into elephant welfare, they get seriously mistreated, unlike the monkeys. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matzzon Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Now the UK and the brits are trying to look good and use common sense as well as pushing for higher moral standards. The thing is that they lack the ability to see the same pattern in their own society. What about Greyhound Racing? Is that right for the dogs? Are they sure the dogs really like that and they are not pressing them too hard? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo1968 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 1 hour ago, bert bloggs said: Just get men to climb the trees and collect them ,oh but make sure they are white men ,or someone will be offended ???? You have to make sure that the tree is planted to slope 45 degrees when the fruit appears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advocate Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Thailand's exports of coconut products to the UK are so miniscule it wouldn't make any difference to the coconut industry in Thailand if they ceased. The goods displaced can replace Thai imports of coconut products. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrogaz Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 1 hour ago, worgeordie said: What's the World coming to,ban everything,ban working horses,donkey's dogs,ferrets,Falcon's and monkey's, Oh and those cormorants that the Chinese fishers use. Then have a think and come up with other things someone does not like and ban it. regards worgeordie My thoughts exactly. World gone crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrogaz Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BritManToo Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 Just now, Pedrogaz said: What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US. The supermarkets are probably scared of the hordes of looney lefties that will destroy their shops if they don't. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrenn Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 2 hours ago, Brianbighead said: They should ban all the seafood too. A lot of slaves used in the fishing industry. People with their hands in freezing water all day peeling prawns for pennies Freezing waters? In Thailand? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dbrenn Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 4 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said: What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US. Well said. I get sick of all this moralising from places that really should clean up their own act. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sungod Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Stop the exploitation of the donkeys at Weymouth beach too! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterwhisper Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 I have only yesterday resolved to forthwith ban myself from taking advantage of the earthworms fertilizing, loosening and aerating the soil in my garden. I can no longer have it on my conscience to engage in such animal cruelty just so I can harvest fresh vegetables, the selfish individual that I am. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 just because the poor little boogers don't wash their hands... - showing a human trait really... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brianbighead Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 15 minutes ago, dbrenn said: Freezing waters? In Thailand? Yeh the prawns are kept in ice cold water as they peel them, sitting on a 10 baht plastic seat all day 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brianbighead Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 21 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said: What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US. They are not meddling Up to them where they purchase from Thailand has got away with a LOT for years now Slavery and slave labour is alive and kicking in Thailand to this day 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbrenn Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, Brianbighead said: Yeh the prawns are kept in ice cold water as they peel them, sitting on a 10 baht plastic seat all day Reminds me of when I was young. Holiday job shovelling coal from a heap into a wheelbarrow, then into a boiler house store, in the middle of a UK winter. Cold hands peeling prawns? At least they get a 10 Baht stool to sit on. Diddums. People are so delicate these days. 1 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGW Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 29 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said: What is this obsession that Westerners feel to meddle in everyone else's affairs as though their warmongering gives them moral superiority? The UK is a but a short step behind the US. Is it not "divide & rule" create as much dissent as possible, fund and encourage any and all diversity, no matter how ridiculous, then the "Governments" can continue to rule with impunity, keep the masses occupied, is that not the real reason folks like Soros fund all these splinter groups, surely they don't actually care do they? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Grumpy John Posted July 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2020 Not sure how you can have a go at the greatest leader the free world has ever had in a thread about banning monkeys picking coconuts in Thailand??? I guess still butt hurt after 3.6 years! ???? As for the monkeys, the ones I have seen working around here are well feed, willing to work and could if peeved chew off the hand of the handler....unlike some human monkeys around here who you are hard pressed to get a days work out of. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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