Today I saw a human orangutan. It was a Greenpeace person who stood at my bus stop handing out flyers. It turns out that some of our city-buses are running on Neste Oil’s palm-oil diesel. The agriculture of palm oil threatens to wipe out all orangutans and now Greenpeace wanted me to sign a petition to protest against the use of this horrible substance in our local traffic. (You can do it here: www.greenpeace.fi/bussit/ unfortunately they don’t have a Swedish version or even an English version of the site – BAD Greenpeace)
I have always been a bit suspicious of Greenpeace myself, mostly because I don’t see the problem in hunting and killing whales. Or maybe it’s mainly because I don’t think baby seals are so cuddly…
Anyway, I recently saw a documentary that described how the Brazilian rainforest is being cut down to give way to large fields of soy beans. So I’m just wondering – is Greenpeace also protesting against the consumption of tofu??
