This plant-based food actually can involve animal exploitation. Some suppliers train monkeys to travel up trees to collect the coconuts. So even if something is plant-based, it might not be suitable…
Thanks i noticed it’s often not included in the information on the packaging, which might be a red flag. Wish I had a bit more income to just always buy the ecologically friendly alternative, but in this specific case I don’t know whether that means they didn’t harm monkeys. I guess I’d be fine with a farmer using a monkey if they would treat it well, but I guess no monkey would go ‘work’ for a farmer without being tortured into it.
It’s the coconut products from Thailand that you want to avoid as they were regularly caught using monkey slaves.
Thanks i noticed it’s often not included in the information on the packaging, which might be a red flag. Wish I had a bit more income to just always buy the ecologically friendly alternative, but in this specific case I don’t know whether that means they didn’t harm monkeys. I guess I’d be fine with a farmer using a monkey if they would treat it well, but I guess no monkey would go ‘work’ for a farmer without being tortured into it.