One of my nephews brought a book of Magic Eye images to a family gathering. Magic Eye images look like ordinary two-dimensional patterns, but when viewed in a certain way, the flat surface appears three-dimensional.
We took turns trying to train our eyes to make the three-dimensional image pop out. One family member had trouble seeing the extra dimension.
That appears to be the trouble with the cabal of “green” and “civil society” groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (FOE), the WWF and even zoos like the Melbourne Zoo, the Auckland Zoo and the Philly Zoo.
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Scientists who study sharks tell us that they are most likely to attack when they sense blood in the water. The blood acts as a trigger to their feeding mechanism and they attack, often in a group, creating a deadly feeding frenzy. Blood in the water marks the vulnerability of the target.
Sadly, this is sometimes how people respond to those who are hurting. This happens in schools, the office and even in the neighborhood. Instead of being a community where people are loved, cared for, and nurtured, it can become a dangerous environment where predators are looking for the “blood in the water” of someone’s failings or faults. And then the feeding frenzy is on.
Instead of kicking people when they are down, we should be offering encouragement by helping to restore the fallen.
In many ways, this explains the behavior 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 who viciously assail the innocent third world commodity with a litany of trumped up charges ranging from the supposed deleterious health effects of palm oil to massive deforestation to threatening the extinction of exotic wildlife like the orangutan!
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Christmas is supposed to be a time of generosity and goodwill. However, the acts of generosity and goodwill that flourishes in December often fade quickly, causing many to say, “I wish we could keep the Christmas spirit all year long.” Why does it seem that kindness and compassion are chained to the calendar? Is there an ever-flowing fountain of compassion deeper than warm holiday feelings that pass with the season?
However, the entire cabal of “green” and “civil society” groups such as the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Greenpeace, the Friends of the earth (FOE), the WWF and even zoos like the Melbourne Zoo, the Auckland Zoo and the Philly Zoo, appear to be bereft of the redeeming human qualities of generosity, goodwill or compassion.
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My favorite flavor is cinnamon! I love cinnamon rolls, cinnamon graham crackers, cinnamon candies, cinnamon toast, cinnamon apples, and cinnamon pretzels. Cinnamon is one of those spices that make other things taste better. However, it never crossed my mind to think about where cinnamon comes from. Then, on a recent trip to Sri Lanka, I learned that 90 percent of all the cinnamon in the world comes from that island nation located in the Indian Ocean. For all of the cinnamon I’ve enjoyed over the years, I never stopped to consider its source.
Similarly, palm oil is a wonderful edible oil. Endowed with natural healthful qualities, palm oil is beneficial to the heart and current research shows that it may be useful in the treatment and prevention of certain cancers and diabetes (see: Palm oil for the Heart http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/health/palm-oil-for-the-heart-1.52617). This is due to the nutrients and poplyphenol packed nature of palm oil which is chockfull of betacarotenes, Co Enzyme Q10 and a super Vitamin E called tocotrienol.
Further, and perhaps more incredibly, palm oil is super productive! Just one hectare of palm oil plantation can yield 4-5 metric tons of edible oil. This yield is interestingly just the baseline and it is already ten times that of its competitors such as soy, canola and sunflower. Whilst its competitors have probably reached the upper limits of their yield potential, current R&D points to palm oil potential yield easily reaching a whopping 20 metric tons per hectare! What all this translates to is a highly competitively priced edible oil which worries its competitors no end, for such a cheap source of oil could also be a cheap source of feedstock in the production of bio-fuels and bio-diesel.
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