Retailers pull products over allegations of forced monkey labour

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 5:10 a.m.

Some retailers have pulled products from their shelves after animal rights activists alleged that monkeys were being tied up and forced to harvest coconuts in Thailand. We discuss the allegations and moral implications with Kendra Coulter, associate professor and department chair of labour studies at Brock University, and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.