Orangutans and palm oil

[Catherine]

Quote:And why would people be happy to factory-farm animals....yet can't get their heads around factory-farming weeds??

So well put.

Those are good articles. They do explain why I can't use many of the products on the market. The whole body hygiene industry needs to sort itself out. We use way too many chemicals and way too many products.

The household cleaner issue is even worse. Most household cleaners are way too dangerous to use in an ordinary home. A product that warns that it is dangerous to skin and clothing is then sprayed into the air and fine droplets are inhaled. If it harms your clothes and skin, what does it do to your lungs?

We endanger ourselves and that is bad. Worse is the environmental damage we do to produce these products. I think Orangutans symbolize the mess we are making of the whole planet. Their plight should warn us that we are on the wrong track.

In the mean time Orangutans are doing the best they can to adapt.
https://student.societyforscience.org/ar...e-low-road
We don't give them a choice. We cut down the trees and leave a road so they have to use it to get around. Their willingness to adapt is admirable, but they shouldn't have to do this.

Just because we want to go down the wrong road doesn't mean we should force our gentle cousins to take that road too.