Monkey Labor–Free Canned Coconut Milk Retailers and Brands
If you buy canned coconut milk sourced from Thailand, you may be supporting an industry that hurts monkeys.
PETA entities have repeatedly exposed Thailand’s coconut milk industry, documenting workers kidnapping young monkeys, chaining them, and forcing them to climb trees to pick coconuts.
PETA Asia found that workers illegally tear monkeys from their families and homes when they’re babies. Workers put metal collars around their necks and keep them chained or tethered. Some monkeys who try to defend themselves allegedly have their teeth pulled out.
Veterinarian Dr. Heather Rally also joined PETA Asia to expose Thailand’s cruel “monkey schools,” where the coconut industry tears baby monkeys from their mothers, chains or tethers them, and forces them through training so workers can use them to pick coconuts.
The Thai government and companies that sell coconut products claim that monkeys are no longer used to make goods for export, but PETA Asia confirmed that rampant abuse of these individuals is still going unchecked. Insiders in the Thai coconut milk industry are deliberately hiding forced monkey labor in their supply chain.
Help monkeys with one simple step: Don’t buy canned coconut milk sourced from Thailand.
To make shopping easier, we’ve compiled a list of brands* that have confirmed that they don’t source their canned coconut milk products from Thailand.
Canned Coconut Milk Brands That Don’t Source From Thailand
- Cha’s Organics (ORGANIC)
- CocoGoods Co. (ORGANIC)
- Coco Lopez
- Delta Coco
- Essential
- Good & Gather (ORGANIC)
- Goya
- Jans
- Jiva Organics (ORGANIC)
- Lidl
- Maggi
- Natural Value (ORGANIC)
- Raley’s
- Roland
- Simple Coconut Cream (ORGANIC)
- Sun Harvest
- Trader Joe’s
- Vita Coco
- Wild Harvest (ORGANIC)
*This list is not comprehensive and may be updated at any time in accordance with the findings of PETA Asia’s investigations or new information received by PETA entities.
Take Action for Monkeys Imprisoned by the Thai Coconut Industry
Monkeys feel fear, stress, loneliness, and pain. They form close relationships, solve problems, and value their freedom. Thailand’s coconut industry steals all of that when it chains them, isolates them, and forces them to work. Monkeys do not exist to harvest coconuts.
Monkeys deserve freedom—not forced labor. Tell the Thai coconut industry to stop hurting monkeys.
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