14 Replies to “You Bastards! [Dan Collins]”

1. B Moe says:

   January 18, 2009 at 1:17 pm

   The demand for palm oil is rising in the U.S. and Europe because it is touted as a “clean” alternative to fuel. Indonesia is the world’s top producer of palm oil, and prices have jumped by almost 70 percent in the last year.

   But palm oil plantations devastate the forest and create a monoculture on the land, in which orangutans cannot survive. Over the years, Galdikas has fought off loggers, poachers and miners, but nothing has posed as great a threat to her “babies” as palm oil.

   I can’t wait to start blaming Obama.

2. happyfeet says:

   January 18, 2009 at 1:19 pm

   I would bet it’s a lot more Europe than US but I’m too lazy to google.

3. happyfeet says:

   January 18, 2009 at 1:27 pm

   oh. These wacko people say a lot of the palm oil orangutan massacre problem is driven by the other wacko nannystate policies they lobbied for…

   Because of the impending trans-fat labeling regulation, many food manufacturers are seeking alternatives to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. (Center for Science in the Public Interest)*

   Science!

4. B Moe says:

   January 18, 2009 at 1:30 pm

   Crisco needs to start putting “Orangutan Safe” on their label.

5. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

   January 18, 2009 at 1:32 pm

   Those CSIPR lunatics have been around for about 30 years. I’ve never seen them cite their scientific credentials, oddly enough.

6. happyfeet says:

   January 18, 2009 at 1:32 pm

   oh. As of 2005 yes the EU dwarfed the US in palm oil imports. Check the third column here. But yeah the US biodiesel people are worried that the global warming nonsense that they so bad want to exploit might be exploited by palm oil more better than they can exploit it. Poor monkeys is all I have to say.

7. Bob Reed says:

   January 18, 2009 at 2:00 pm

   Let see…We’re going to rub out a previously un-endangered species. among the closest to our own on earth, all in the name of saving gaia…

   Sounds like the usual unintended consequence to me…

   B Moe, I can’t wait to blame O! for this one either!

   Wait, I gotta start practicing…

   Damn that Chimperor ObaMussoliniSoros!…

8. jon says:

   January 18, 2009 at 2:28 pm

   Coconut oil is damned expensive, but does wonders as popcorn fuel. Put enough of that stuff in my stovetop popper dealie, and I don’t even want to put butter on it. Just salt and really good fat. Mmmmm. Sorry orangutans, but sometimes

   But really, I think this partially-hydrogenated stuff is awful. Just make food in more places, don’t make it so the fat is extra unhealthy just so it can taste the same in 2013, and try real ingredients such as cane sugar, vegetable oil, butter, and such. And I don’t think all that added salt makes for a healthier product even if it lowers the sugar content. Call me an enviro-freak or whatever, but I’ve been a lot more healthy since I started eating mostly things I could make without a chemical plant in the kitchen.

   As for Indonesian forest policies being determined by New Yorker and Californian bans of hydrogenated oils, I’m glad someone is paying attention! Those Indonesians certainly haven’t been exploited for and been exploiting their natural resources until now. Dutch rubber plantations, bananas, hardwood flooring, exotic nuts, ukelele manufacturing, surfboards, birds of paradise, hunters foreign and domestic, fish, slave laborers for Japanese occupation, and extras for Hollywood epics were nothing compared to this scourge of trendy chefs and diet czars. I’m sure those Indonesians were just sitting around in their little huts on stilts waiting for the right time to start logging and introducing plantations into their forests.

   I don’t know what will convince those orangutans that they must finally start to kill us. I think education is the key, so I’ll be donating to the Dr. Zaius Foundation next paycheck. It’s the only way to stop the Governator and Bloomberg from killing those cool primates. And Ms. Gaia.

9. Sdferr says:

   January 18, 2009 at 2:33 pm

   Here’s one humans have saved from extinction (for the time being anyway). According to one source there were only 16 of these birds in 1942. “As of December 2004, 468 Whooping Cranes existed in the wild and in captivity.” So far, so good.

   Apropos of not much, I just saw a GE Jet Engine commercial this morning on TV, using film of a crane taking off, running to flight and soaring away. Seemed to me like an odd thing to use right on the heels of a universally famous incident of a large bird strike causing engine failure and the downing of an aircraft, even when there were no fatalities.

10. Merovign says:

    January 18, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    That’s one damned funny picture, that’s what I have to say.

11. Jeffersonian says:

    January 18, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    Bloomberg and Ah-nuld, men of system:

    The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder. – Adam Smith

12. happyfeet says:

    January 18, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    nice catch, Sdferr.

13. Mikey NTH says:

    January 19, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    I thought the last stand for the orangutan was in a bare-fisted bar fight alongside Philo Beddoes?

14. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    January 19, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    Left turn, Clyde.

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