 My wife and I watched a fascinating bird show outside our kitchen window one early spring morning. A couple of blackbirds with straw in their beaks entered a small vent in the house next door. A couple of weeks later, to our delight, we saw two baby birds stick their heads out of the vent. Mom and Dad took turns feeding their hungry babies.
Seeing the babies’ wide-open mouths reminded me of how sad it is that an entire cabal of “green” and “civil society” groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (FOE), the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the WWF and even zoos such as the Melbourne Zoo and Auckland Zoo appear unable to grasp the gross injustice that they are wreaking upon the livelihoods of smallholders who depend on palm oil for a living!
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 When it comes to conscience, you’re sometimes surprised by when and how it shows up. In York, Pa., an armed robber gave back what he had just stolen from a homeless man.
According to news reports, a man by the name of Sanderson was stopped by an armed thief. At the point of a gun, Sanderson gave the thief his wallet, cell phone, MP3 player and a pack of cigarettes. The thief wanted to know if that was all he had, to which Sanderson replied that he was a resident of the homeless shelter. Something must have touched the thief. He reportedly said, "I can respect that." He then gave the man back all he had stolen.
When we consider the actions of “green” and “civil society” groups like the oddly named Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (FOE), the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the WWF and even zoos such as the Melbourne Zoo and Auckland Zoo, we are compelled to wonder whether they have a conscience, considering the impact of their actions on innocent smallholders who plant palm oil for a living.
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 When I was a boy, I used to chase armadillos. If you have never seen an armadillo, they look like a possum with a turtle shell. Well, actually, they just look like an armadillo and nothing else. Aunt Eva would ask, “How can you ever hope to catch it and if you were to catch that filthy thing, what would you do with it?"
Dealing with the slew of misinformation on palm oil dispensed by a cabal of “green” and “civil society” groups such as the oddly named Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (FOE), the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the WWF and even zoos such as the Melbourne Zoo and Auckland Zoo can be a bit like chasing an armadillo. Catching them and exposing the real reason for their apparent reflexive hostility towards all things palm oil are not the most pleasant of tasks.
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 Free societies stand or fall on the way they handle truth. Politicians who lie to the people ultimately are discovered and lose their ability to lead. Trust is vital for the democratic process. Without absolute truth, political systems determine their own standards, and change them at will. One communist-era dissenter wrote that truth was whatever the state declared it to be at the moment.
The intriguing thing about the slew of palm oil campaigns launched over the past 2 decades by an entire cabal of “green” and “civil society” groups such as the oddly named Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (FOE), the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the WWF and even zoos such as the Melbourne Zoo and Auckland Zoo was the way the main stream media gave wide airing to their wild and unsubstantiated allegations against probably the most benign of edible oilseed crops, health and environmentally speaking. These “green” and “civil society” groups first assailed the innocent commodity with devious allegations of being bad for heart health and when that WAS DISPROVED BY TONS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES, they switched to the more difficult to disprove allegation - massive deforestation on a scale that allegedly threatens the existence of the orangutan.
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