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| === BOS: Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation === | === BOS: Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation === |
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| Willie Smits has set up this foundation that protects Orang utans and fights deforestation for palm seed oil which is used as a biofuel and as food. Any product with unspecified 'vegetable-oil' in it will with 90% probability have palm-seed oil in it and therefore contributes to the genocide of Orang utans. Genocide is a correct term here because these creatures are much closer to humans emotionally and intellectually than you probably think. Read the book, it's scary. [[http://www.ullmann-publishing.com/thinkers\Thinkers of the Forest]] | **Willie Smits** has set up this foundation that protects Orang utans and fights deforestation.\\ |
| | This happens primarily for tropical wood for **palm-seed oil**. The latter is used as a biofuel and as food. Any product with unspecified 'vegetable-oil' in it will with 90% probability have palm-seed oil in it and therefore contributes to the genocide of Orang utans.\\ |
| | Yes genocide is a correct term here, I don't use it frivolously, because these creatures are much closer to humans emotionally and intellectually than you probably think. Read the book [[http://www.ullmann-publishing.com/thinkers\Thinkers of the Forest]], it's scary. The classic border between animal- and human kingdoms becomes unnervingly indistinct. |
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