Palm Oil | Deforestation Watch

Written by Ross Spencer
Monday, 14 November 2011
The H1N1 pandemic focused the world’s attention on viruses. Viruses are living organisms that need a host to survive and wreak their havoc. In some cases, a virus can be present for many years before the host is even aware of it. During that time, the virus can inflict widespread and untold damage. Take it away from the host, and it remains dormant or dies! When I think of the mischief that “green” and “civil society” groups like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (FOE), Rainforest Action Network and recently, and even zoos like the Melbourne Zoo, the Philly Zoo and the Auckland Zoo the remarkable similarities between their actions and that of a typical virus jumps out at me!
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Written by Ross Spencer
Wednesday, 09 November 2011
“Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known & seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper & sufficient antagonist to error” Notes on Religion (October 1776), published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson : 1816-1826 (1899) edited by Paul Leicester Ford, v. 2, p. 102 When I contemplate on the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson as he penned those illuminating lines, I can’t help but see how the questionable anti-palm oil campaigns of suspect “civil society” outfits like the Auckland Zoo and the Philly Zoo will eventually and inevitably unravel when the truth outs the error of the zoo’s ways.
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Written by Editorial Republished from The Star
Friday, 04 November 2011
THE industry rivals of palm oil never quit. First they claimed that palm oil was bad for sustaining human health, and now they say it is bad for sustaining the environment. We have gone down this road before. Some decades ago, the US soybean oil sector scarred the reputation of palm oil in the edible oils market. A string of ills was attached to palm oil consumption, creating panic and worse. But eventually, commendable professionalism and good science won out. The negative campaign against palm oil came to be seen for the sham that it was.
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