Palm oil, is it related to palm wax????

[Guest]

Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans

By ROBIN MCDOWELL, Associated Press Writer Robin Mcdowell, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jan 18, 1:52 pm ET

A female orangutan named Beki eats bananas at Tanjung Puting National Park on AP – A female orangutan named Beki eats bananas at Tanjung Puting National Park on Borneo island, Indonesia, …

TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia – Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three young women to Africa and Asia to study our closest relatives: It was chimpanzees for Jane Goodall, mountain gorillas for Dian Fossey and the elusive, solitary orangutans for Birute Mary Galdikas.

Nearly four decades later, 62-year-old Galdikas, the least famous of his "angels," is the only one still at it. And the red apes she studies in Indonesia are on the verge of extinction because forests are being clear-cut and burned to make way for lucrative palm oil plantations.

Galdikas worries many questions may never be answered. How long do orangutans live in the wild? How far do the males roam? And how many mates do they have in their lifetime?

"I try not to get depressed, I try not to get burned out," says the Canadian scientist, pulling a wide-rimmed jungle hat over her shoulder-length gray hair in Tanjung Puting National Park. She gently leans over to pick up a tiny orangutan, orphaned when his mother was caught raiding crops.

"But when you get up in the air you start gasping in horror; there's nothing but palm oil in an area that used to be plush rain forest. Elsewhere, there's burned-out land, which now extends even within the borders of the park."

The demand for palm oil is rising in the U.S. and Europe because it is touted as a "clean" alternative to fuel. Indonesia is the world's top producer of palm oil, and prices have jumped by almost 70 percent in the last year.

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I remember once in university a philosophy prof wrote on a sugar packet with a picture of a butterfly, "Being is One."

 

[dagmar88]

Hi,
I'm so sorry, I don't really understand your post...
But I can answer your question, palm wax = made out of palm oil. From what I've seen it's 100% palm oil

Palm Waxes are made from a 100% Natural Palm Oil Based raw materials. The various blends of PALM WAXES are naturally made/formulated from the many fractions of palm oil and the many fractions of the palm oil based oleochemicals. Some fractions are soft and some are hardened.

http://www.lipidchem.com/about_palm.html
(i do not agree with them though, that palm oil products are environmental friendly. I do think soap & candle makers are not the problem :wink: big industries are.)
Dagmar

 

[Guest]

Ah, thanks.

I think the impact of what we do is often overlooked.

Big industry relies on little people as buyers. Which is why the financial meltdown is so large... the little people were deprived of a living wage for so long while the adulation and top dollars went to CEOs and brokers... But really, We the People made this country strong, not single leaders or even businessmen like Paul Revere alone.

 

[dagmar88]

Hi consider this,
No matter what we use in our soaps; ours are not mass produced and I think that's a step in the right direction? Now, I can't say anything about your country's politics I know Obama is going to be president and that's pretty much it