Nestle still sucks
Last night, in a rare lapse of channel surfing, I caught this ABC news story about Elephants in Indonesia.
Indonesia is really in trouble these days, as they chop down EVERYTHING -- highlands and lowlands -- to put in palm oil and coffee crops. In TWO YEARS one park has gone from 1600 elephants to 200; the other from 60 to FOUR.
When it became apparent that demand for alternative fuel would drive the palm oil industry (and the razing of jungles to plant palms) I stopped buying palm oil tapers. And this is why I'd suggest that if you are a coffee drinker (as I am) don't drink a cup of coffee when you don't know where it came from. As the ABC show demonstrates, NESTLE buys the majority of beans from these farms. And although much robusta bean coffee goes into instant coffee production, Nestle does sell them to a variety of companies including DUNKIN DONUTS.
I agree with the ABC narrative, that World Wildlife's Flying Squads are a technique that has some hope of success, although I think their effectiveness has more to do with their interaction with the local people-- and the media coverage that comes with this effort-- than it necessarily has to do with wild and domesticated elephant interaction. It all begs the question, however, what will happen to the wild elephants when there is NO habitat left for them at all?
It seems like Nestle is always going to be the poster criminal for why we need more regulation not less ....
Indonesia is really in trouble these days, as they chop down EVERYTHING -- highlands and lowlands -- to put in palm oil and coffee crops. In TWO YEARS one park has gone from 1600 elephants to 200; the other from 60 to FOUR.
When it became apparent that demand for alternative fuel would drive the palm oil industry (and the razing of jungles to plant palms) I stopped buying palm oil tapers. And this is why I'd suggest that if you are a coffee drinker (as I am) don't drink a cup of coffee when you don't know where it came from. As the ABC show demonstrates, NESTLE buys the majority of beans from these farms. And although much robusta bean coffee goes into instant coffee production, Nestle does sell them to a variety of companies including DUNKIN DONUTS.
I agree with the ABC narrative, that World Wildlife's Flying Squads are a technique that has some hope of success, although I think their effectiveness has more to do with their interaction with the local people-- and the media coverage that comes with this effort-- than it necessarily has to do with wild and domesticated elephant interaction. It all begs the question, however, what will happen to the wild elephants when there is NO habitat left for them at all?
It seems like Nestle is always going to be the poster criminal for why we need more regulation not less ....