i'm all for using animal labor but ONLY IF its done with some reasonable accommodations for the animals. Two square meals a day and a decent place to sleep at a minimum.

Police Dogs are treated like uniformed officers. Very good.

Dolphins working with the Navy Seals to find mines and enemy combatants. Kick ass.

Working a mule to death in less than a year in a coal mine. Not so much.

As far as the monkeys go, they are perfectly suited for this type of work and seem to like it. The chains around the necks, needs improvement IMO.

Thanks to PETA, Sarah McLachlan can now revive her career with an angel monkey song.

Yeah, very smart use of animals. Not sure how this is any different from horses pulling wagons or oxen pulling plows.

Monkeys need to form a labor union and maybe get a dental plan or something.

Bigfoot Is Real said:

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Knowing PETA they probably chained the monkeys up themselves to get the footage.

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And then sent them to the monkey extermination site because no one wanted to pony up the money to feed them

Well I'll be a monkey's Uncle!

bmc13 said:

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2 coconuts per minute for 8 hours and 20 minutes

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No union breaks for smokes? Nothing better than watching a monkey enjoy a fine Marlboro red.

Are those Thais getting paid to spank their monkeys?

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Gigem314 said:

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Can we borrow these monkey trainers to teach Biden how to properly read a teleprompter?

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Why not get a few of the trained monkeys to read Biden's teleprompter for him? It usually sounds like monkeys wrote his drivel anyway.

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Ag81Golf said:

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Thanks to PETA, Sarah McLachlan can now revive her career with an angel monkey song.

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Chetos said:

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Coming after seeing eye dogs next

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Working Dogs
Relationships of mutual respect and benefit are truly wonderful between dogs and humans; however, working dogs are instead often used as a substitute for innovative non-animal programs that intelligently address human needs. Sometimes working dogs are used in situations that are considered too dangerous for human beingsand therefore too dangerous for animals. They may be treated cruelly in preparation for and during their lives of servitude. Some people love their working dogs, but others don't, which means that working dogs cannot count on having a home where they will be treated well. Also, some working-dog training programs contribute to overpopulation by breeding their dogs (with the notable exception of programs for the deaf, which rescue dogs from shelters).

When working dogs become too old to work, they may be separated from their human companions and either "retired" to another family, returned to the training center, or even killed. Optimally, humans should be relied upon for support of the disabled rather than working dogs and other animalsit is too common for animals to be exploited and abused.

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bonfarr said:

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Monkeys need to form a labor union and maybe get a dental plan or something.

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"Teamster Monkeys" sounds a bit too apocalypse