Dr. Oz Declares war on Orangutans

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  • Simone_King
    Simone_King Posts: 467 Member
    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
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    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
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    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
    sunsnstatheart Posts: 2,544 Member
    Son of a.....

    biscuit

    with gravy? strawberries and cream?

    Strawberries and Cream. Gravy is just so ugly.
  • Sycoholic
    Sycoholic Posts: 282 Member
    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
    Midnight_Sunshine Posts: 369 Member
    Son of a.....

    biscuit

    with gravy? strawberries and cream?

    with sausage gravy!! :happy:
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    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
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    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
    TheFairyJester Posts: 93
    this post is stupid.
  • glitteredgrave
    glitteredgrave Posts: 194 Member
    aww </3
  • vanguardfitness
    vanguardfitness Posts: 720 Member
    wow
  • OrangutanOutreach
    OrangutanOutreach Posts: 1
    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
    toddis Posts: 941 Member
    Meh, so much of our food supply is bad for something/someone/etc.

    Feign outrage and go back to life as usual.
  • anybeary
    anybeary Posts: 188 Member
    You forgot the endangered Borneo sumatran rhino
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    and the endangered Borneo pygmy elephant
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    Holy crap! There are pygmy elephants?! It's just too much to take. Cute overload.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Someone just put a bullet in his brain already. Claim it was a Magic Bullet designed to cure stupidity.
  • fougamou
    fougamou Posts: 200 Member
    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_
    Lift_This_ Posts: 2,756 Member
    Someone just put a bullet in his brain already. Claim it was a Magic Bullet designed to cure stupidity.

    LOL
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,221 Member
    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
    NGMama Posts: 384 Member
    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
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    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
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    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
    LilacDreamer Posts: 1,364 Member
    i've been trying to get the word out. this breaks my heart. poor defenseless babies, they don't deserve this.
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    Orangutans > Dr. Oz.
    I know this is thread necromancy, but I missed this somehow. **** Dr. Oz.

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