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Ashlie D. Stevens

PETA links HelloFresh to monkey labor

Peta HelloFresh Target Thailand
Monkey holding a fresh coconut, Koh Samui, Thailand. Monkeys are taught and used to climb coconut trees and twist off the coconuts until they fall. This one is holding a coconut that has been freshly harvested. (Getty Images/enviromantic)

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has called for a boycott of HelloFresh, alleging that the meal delivery service uses coconut milk obtained from monkey labor in Thailand.

The call for HelloFresh subscribers to cancel their memberships came as allegations of animal abuse were leveled against 57 operations in nine provinces in Thailand in a new investigation by PETA Asia. The newly released findings claim that monkeys are chained, whipped, beaten and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts for their milk.

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