Please no palm oil

I read in the newspaper today an article about orangutans were disappearing from loss of habitat in SE Asia because forests where they live are being destroyed by palm oil farming. It projected Zero orangutans left by 2010 to 2012 if the present course is continued. Please read your food labels at the ingredients, required in America by law, for palm oil. Sure some may say they are just apes, but losing animals forever is never a good thing. They can't come back you know. Plus don't buy tropical hardwoods for furniture like Teak the newspaper said, another cause of deforestation.

If deforestation or loss of habitat is difficult to imagine actually impacting species survival skills, let me try to come up with an analogy to explain the animal point of view.

Now image, yes I am being serious, image you are at home with your family and neighbors dropping by to say hello. Next, someone enters your neighborhood and destroys your home and your neighbors' homes with a bulldozer followed by chopping down trees and uprooted sidewalks. Then your food supply perishes as someone plants a soybean field over the dirt of what was your home and neghborhood. How do you survive in a soybean field with the farmers shooting at you to protect their investment while you search for food? Naturally, you would move to greener pastures since their is no court, no city council, and no governor willing to take on your cause to gain your home back. The problem is greener pastures is already occupied. With an increase of competition for resources (food, shelter, females), how will you survive and prosper when everyone else is also trying to one up you? The pie can only be cut into so many pieces you know. Have I explained the orangutan's view well enough? You do not really expect them to live on a palm tree farm with only oil palm seeds to eat and protective farmers, do you? Post later. Bye!