Dr. Oz Declares war on Orangutans

Simone_King

He has a point. We must do something before those beautiful animals are gone forever.

Good Dr. Oz. You go and so something great with your fame.

Mokey41

I don't really care, Orangutans are ugly

Right, while no fan of Dr Oz, I care little if Orangutangs live or die.

They probably don't care much for you either.

Contrarian

I'm sorry to report that Nutella contains palm oil.

I have been to Borneo and have seen orangutans in their natural habitat. They are lovely, gentle creatures. We have to protect them, because they cannot protect themselves from habitat distruction.

sunsnstatheart

Son of a.....

biscuit

with gravy? strawberries and cream?

Strawberries and Cream. Gravy is just so ugly.

Sycoholic

He's such a quack and a rating's *kitten*. He's always touting the latest/greatest and not necessarily anything that's beneficial. One show he's talking about diet and another he's touting new plastic surgery procedures. Sure, lose an inch or two off your belly in 6 months by going weekly for injections into your gut and shelling out thousands of dollars. He's just a spokesman for the snake oil companies. I don't take him seriously.

Midnight_Sunshine

Son of a.....

biscuit

with gravy? strawberries and cream?

with sausage gravy!! :happy:

MiloBloom83

Indonesia and Malaysia were doing this long before Dr Oz even thought about a TV show....

But hey... if we've got to hang someone for it, I vote Dr Oz!

^^this

jenilla1

Indonesia and Malaysia were doing this long before Dr Oz even thought about a TV show....

But hey... if we've got to hang someone for it, I vote Dr Oz!

^^this

I think the point is that sure these things have been going on, but when you get a popular celebrity spokesperson to start pushing a huge new fad, it's going to really jack up the production of these things...and thereby contribute hugely to a problem that already exists.

TheFairyJester

this post is stupid.

glitteredgrave

aww </3

vanguardfitness

wow

OrangutanOutreach

Thanks for helping get the word out regarding the devastating effects of something seemingly so innocuous as a recommendation by a television 'health guru' like Dr Oz. This sort of thing normally drifts right under the radar, but it really needs to be heard.

The reckless greed of the oil palm industry is an environmental train wreck happening in slow motion. Its unflinching expansion is directly correlated to global warming and climate change. While a handful of corporations are making a fortune, the rest of us suffer-- even if we don't know the reasons why....

Orangutan Outreach (http://redapes.org) has joined forces with RAN (Rainforest Action Network) to help bring attention to this problem. Please sign our join petition and share with your friends: http://ran.org/act/dr-oz/

Thanks for your support..... OO

toddis

Meh, so much of our food supply is bad for something/someone/etc.

Feign outrage and go back to life as usual.

anybeary

You forgot the endangered Borneo sumatran rhino

and the endangered Borneo pygmy elephant

Holy crap! There are pygmy elephants?! It's just too much to take. Cute overload.

ironanimal

Someone just put a bullet in his brain already. Claim it was a Magic Bullet designed to cure stupidity.

fougamou

Why did he say palm oil was good?

My understanding when I lived in Africa was that palm oil was pretty low on the scale of good oil to consume.

Lift_This_

Someone just put a bullet in his brain already. Claim it was a Magic Bullet designed to cure stupidity.

LOL

neanderthin

Why did he say palm oil was good?

My understanding when I lived in Africa was that palm oil was pretty low on the scale of good oil to consume.

Biofuel mostly. Companies that buy this stuff need to be embarrassed politically and socially to help nudge these companies towards alternative fuels, probably wishfully thinking. Health wise there actually very good on the health meter, but the other downside is they are replacing hydrogenated polyunsaturated oils in baked goods etc because they are more saturated and mimic the viscosity better that are needed to make these types of processed foods without resorting to using the old method of animal fats.

NGMama

this post is stupid.

Really? Then go away. Why waste your energy to say something negative when clearly it's a topic that matters to other people, particularly those of us who have something called feelings. Ask your Yorkies, they probably know what they are.

Bentley2718

We need to declare war on chimps before they rip off another person's genitals/face when we try to raise them as humans and forget how strong they are.

Or maybe people need to stop being idiots and trying to keep wild animals as "pets," or trying to make them into facsimiles of humans. I love companion animals, I live with several myself, and help stray/homeless ones when I can, but they are animals that have been living with humans for countless generations (i.e. domestic felines, and at the moment, domestic canines) and are well adapted to that life. Wild animals, especially large and potentially dangerous ones, need to be treated with respect and care--and that does not include treating them like house pets.

I also find the destruction of forests in Borneo, along with all of its inhabitants very sad. I wish people like Dr. Oz would think a little more about the products they endorse, and whether they are good for the planet as well as people's health. At the very least, the show should have mentioned the environmental impacts so consumers would know what they are buying. But I think that is probably too much to hope for from a profit driven enterprise like Dr. Oz.

MaraDiaz

I'm more worried about the people of Indonesia than the wildlife. And the people are being horribly exploited by Western and Global corporations.

Check your labels, don't do business with companies that export anything at all from Indonesia. It isn't helping the workers there, it's just profiting people who have more than enough money in the first place.

Fun fact: the United States and Great Britain participated in the genocide of over a million Indonesians in the 1960s. The CIA even went so far as to give their new pet dictator, Suharto, a list of people to assassinate, which the dictator's cronies then dutifully checked off as they committed each murder.

People first. If we can't take care of our own, how can we be expected to care about other species?

LilacDreamer

i've been trying to get the word out. this breaks my heart. poor defenseless babies, they don't deserve this.

Cait_Sidhe

Orangutans > Dr. Oz.

I know this is thread necromancy, but I missed this somehow. **** Dr. Oz.