The Task: To demand coconut brands to be more transparent about whether or not their coconut oil products use enslaved monkeys as part of their production process.
The Issue: With the explosive popularity of coconut oil and other coconut products, the industry has experienced a heightened demand. Sadly, to meet that demand, many producers are employing the use of enslaved and abused monkeys (predominately macaques) to pick their coconuts. Macaques are captured, sent to intense training schools, chained up at the neck and are forced to pick anywhere from 300 to 1000 coconuts each and every day.
The thing is, there are companies and brands that use ethical methods to produce high-quality organic coconut oil products, but most companies refuse to employ the ethical production of coconuts to help keep their costs low.
The Solution: By putting intense pressure on coconut oil companies to verify whether or not they use or support enslaved macaques (or other monkeys) to produce their coconut products, such as coconut milk, oil, skin care products, and oil.
Join us and let’s end the use of chained up and abused monkeys for the production of coconut products!
We at Earthy Living support ethically produced coconut-based products and believe that all companies should reveal their production sources.
