Theresa Pine

NFTS @NFTS / Amazon Craft Academy. @LivEveryPlay emerging writers. @EquityUK founder member GRT committee.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

Really excited to have some of my writing involved in this. Thank you @HallforCornwall
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[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@donnyosmond So sorry for your loss. Crazy Horses, which Alan co wrote, had lyrics that were 50 years ahead of it's time. RIP Alan.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Thailand produces approximately 3 billion coconuts per year. The coconuts go into coconut milk, coconut cream, coconut oil. The coconut milk goes into the curry at your local Thai restaurant. Into the vegan dairy-free ice cream. Into the coconut yoghurt that costs three times as much as the regular kind and is photographed on the packaging next to a beach.

A portion of Thailand's coconut harvest is picked by monkeys.

Not metaphorically. Pig-tailed macaques, caught from the wild or bred in captivity, trained through a process that animal welfare investigators describe as involving prolonged chaining, isolation, and repetition until the animal learns to climb trees and twist coconuts until they fall. The training begins in infancy. It lasts months. The conditions at training facilities have been documented by investigators who found animals chained by the neck, unable to move more than a few feet, rotating on coconuts for hours a day.

A trained macaque can pick between 500 and 1,000 coconuts per day. A human picker averages 80.

When Waitrose, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, and the Co-op were presented with this information in 2020, they removed the implicated brands from their shelves. The implicated brands were not niche. They included Aroy-D and Chaokoh, two of the most widely distributed coconut brands in the world. Aroy-D coconut milk sits in restaurant supply chains across the UK, Europe, and North America.

The brands remain on shelves in most of the world.

The macaques remain in training.

The coconut milk is still plant-based.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@ccajcynthia @ThePosieParker @Glinner Thank you Cynthia, for what you did in setting up the refuge and for still speaking out.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@Feargal_Sharkey I have just watched all three episodes. I am angry beyond belief. As a SW Water customer I don't want them to have a single penny more of my money, but it is a monopoly.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@ZaphodBeeb34165 @afneil In 2010, when we left our guide sheepishly asked if we could leave anything. Gave him a bag of t-shirts, toiletries, pens (he loved them) some paperbacks - Andy McNab kind of holiday reads. A guide book of Cuba. It still upsets me how greatful he was for those things.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@ClonesCyclone Thank you Barry.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@DPJHodges @lukey_stanger It was the borough of Lewisham but Blackheath - the dead posh bit. Your wonderful mum did some stuff with the local youth theatre and asked some of us for tea. It was a big lovely house, technically Lewisham - but I think you are trying to talk it down a bit - it was Blackheath.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@FutureTD @Han81 @rickygervais Are you aware how long it takes to arrange gigs, sell tickets etc? Lead time is often over a year, rather presumptuous to leave a gap in his schedule in case he was nominated. He is far to busy raising money for animals and making people laugh to give a toss.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

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All Eyes On Iran.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@BBCr4today Will Cate discuss the sustainability of the massive concrete bunker like second home she's built overlooking the beach in Cornwall - it has been a building site with lorries coming and going for ages. She was not to keen to listen to the local "activists" - who didn't want it !

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@Glinner @ChayasClan Big Train was brilliant - there is nothing like it on TV anymore. The "Ralph McTell - Streets of London" sketch is perfection.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@SClively @Glinner @ChayasClan Me to, love it.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@DreyfusJames @MadnessNews I would love to go back to then - I miss the 80's. I spent a lot of my mid teens madly in love with Chas Smash!

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@jo_bartosch Just ordered it in Cornwall Libraries.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@sharrond62 Congratulations, you deserve it after the bravery you have shown in speaking out - keep up the good work.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@RobbieRinder Well said. I stand with you all.

[Theresa Pine @tk_pine]

@VeteransFdn Happy Birthday Charles.

[GypsyTravEssex @GypsyTravEssex]

Happy international womens day x to all you beautiful powerful ladies especially from the Romany and Traveller communities. 💪💃🏼

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

This photo from 1930 shows Afghan women working as medical professionals at Kandahar Women’s Hospital. Nearly a century later, in today’s Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, women are banned from studying medicine, working, and attending university.