Palm Oil Truth Foundation - Res Ipsa Loquitur: Palm Oil Critics Red Faced Over Discovery of 2,000 New Red Apes

Res Ipsa Loquitur: Palm Oil Critics Red Faced Over Discovery of 2,000 New Red Apes

Written by Frank Tate
Friday, 17 April 2009
It would appear that it would be difficult to miss 2,000 red apes swinging in the trees, but that is precisely what happened in Indonesian Borneo. The National Geographic News reports that conservationists have discovered 219 orang utan nests whilst combing through Indonesian Borneo’s East Kalimantan Province. The scientists surmised that the nests indicate that up to 2,000 new red apes could be living in 2 million hectares of rainforests in the rugged mountains of Indonesian Borneo. With roughly 50,000 orangutans thought to remain in the wild, the new find could add 5 percent to the world's known orangutan numbers, said Erik Meijaard, senior ecologist for the Nature Conservancy in Indonesia. The Indonesian government is considering making the newfound apes' home a protected area, he added. "It is good to hear that there are more orangutans out there and that these new populations are basically protected because of their remoteness," Melvin Gumal, director of the Malaysia program for the Wildlife Conservation Society, commented via email. Malaysia rules about a third of Borneo. Perhaps, the age old Latin maxim best describes the slow unraveling of the current semantic invocation of some “environmental” organizations against palm oil accusing it of “causing massive deforestation and threatening the extinction of the orang utans”. Put simply, the maxim means “the facts speak for itself”. This discovery is more egg on the faces of alarmist environmental organizations such as the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (with the embarrassing acronym “FOE”). RAN, at its usual alarmist and irresponsible best had recklessly claimed in its website that palm oil cultivation is causing such massive deforestation that the orang utan will be extinct by 2011! Orang Utan suited FOE delinquents have been dispatched to picket supermarkets like Tesco alleging that “the massive deforestation caused by palm oil cultivation is leading to the extinction of the orang utan!” Greenpeace showed an even greater propensity to resort to the dramatic, getting their gaggle of Greenpeace activists to dress up like orang utan and scale the walls of the Unilever factory in the UK to protest “the massive deforestation caused by palm oil cultivation leading to the extinction of the orang utan. In the view of the Palm Oil Truth Foundation, res ipsa loquitur! It is precisely the predilection of these “environmental” organizations such as RAN, Greenpeace and FOE to resort to increasingly irrational and rhetorical posturing of what can be labeled “fear, terror and disaster scenarios” that is not just utterly baffling, but certainly adds to the polarization of the political debate on global warming that incapacitates any sensible and reasonable dialog! And may we add…more red faces amongst the genuine environmental purists! THE END.

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I honestly can't wrap my head around the fiction that Greenpeace, FOE and RAN are environmental organizations.

They are really lobbies or they act as lobbies for any one who'd pay them to lobby. These attacks against palm oil is more proof that they are lobbies!

Posted by M Crenshaw, on April 20, 2009 at 2:23

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