HelloFresh will soon drop Thai coconut milk. Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images
Under pressure from animal rights activists, HelloFresh will stop selling coconut milk sourced from Thailand in its meal kits in the coming months over monkey labor allegations, the company confirmed to Axios.
Driving the news: Major retailers, including Walmart, Costco, Target and Kroger, have already stopped carrying coconut milk from certain Thai suppliers accused of using monkeys for forced labor, but HelloFresh is taking it a step further by saying it won’t source any coconut milk from Thailand .
Officials with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals…
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After a PETA exposé revealed the gruesome conditions behind coconut milk mills in Thailand, the HelloFresh meal subscription is putting the kibosh on sourcing from that country.
US Axios reports, HelloFresh is now following suit behind Walmart, Target, and other major retailers in halting its Thai coconut milk sourcing after the animal rights group alleged that most, if not all, of the coconut milk operations in the Southeast Asian country use monkey labor.
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