Adios Piña Coladas

In sad news, the semi-official drink of Puerto Rico and pirates is going to get scarce.

Walmart is joining numerous other retailers and dropping the sale of coconut milk based on allegations that producers in Thailand are using monkey slave labor to harvest coconuts.  "The coconut trade uses social monkeys as chained-up coconut-picking machines, depriving them of any opportunity to eat, play, or spend time with their families," www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/walmart-drops-chaokoh-coconut-milk-peta-monkey-labor-allegations

I don't approve of cruelty to animals, but I'm going to miss those Pina Coladas.   Sing it again.

   If you like Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain
   If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain
   If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape
   I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape

   Yes, I like Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain
   I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne
   I've got to meet you tomorrow and cut through this red tape
   At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape

I'm curious... will the monkeys get unemployment benefits?? 

• "… There's no more work. We're destitute. I'm afraid I have no choice but to sell you all for scientific experiments."

        –Monty Python - The Meaning of Life


It should be noted that none of these major retailers have dropped Nike products for using human slave labor in China.  humanize.today/2021/06/nike-chooses-china-profits-over-uyghur-slaves/

In other news, there are allegations that farmers around the world are using enslaved chickens to lay eggs and enslaved cows to produce milk.