New technology has been developed in the harvest of coconuts in southern Thailand. They have now trained a total of 1,200 monkeys to complete the harvest of their crops. These are just not your ordinary specie of monkey, they are the pig-tailed macaques. Through their developed training standards, they have trained the monkeys to climb the trees, pick the coconuts and let them fall to the ground. I had always assumed that this was a natural instinct, however, these trained monkeys work ten times faster than man, a single monkey harvesting up to 300 coconuts per day. With the initial concept, the monkeys worked long hours for very little in return, however, you train a monkey and there is no limit to their ability to learn. They have now filed petitions to unionize under the control of the International Brotherhood of Coconut Pickers. Until now, the monkeys were quite content in picking coconuts all day and at the days completion, being tied to the truck for the long ride home. With the likelihood of the IBCW, a portion of the initial trained squad of 1,200 monkeys now want to join the Teamsters so they can drive their own trucks, thus elimination of the middle man, the human! Does anyone remember who was the first U.S. Astronaut that traveled into space?
Perhaps, we in the U.S. could also learn from this experience. As we all know, we have had problems with illegal immigration on our southern border. This illegal immigration initially started with those coming across the border to harvest crops in the U.S. Today, the majority of our major crops are still being harvested by illegals. If a monkey can be trained to climb a palm tree and harvest coconuts, picking strawberries, apples, cherries, oranges, lettuce and an assorted other crops should be very simply accomplished. The will work cheaper than the illegals and definitely lesson the tax burden on all of us. The only burden that I see being placed on us when we use the phone to call some company, we will likely have three options, Press (1) for English, Press (2) Espanola, Press (3) Monkey. The concept is boundless and provides many thoughts to ponder!