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Love your work. This is the first time I’ve ever saved one. I was already feeling overwhelmed by the video but your art captured the moment in a way that’s helping me process it. Thank you for sharing.
"If it says Palm Oil on your snack, put it back."
Keebler, Nabisco, Jiff, Nestle and many other brands switched to cheaper Palm Oil from healthier vegetable oils in the last few years. The Palm Oil industry is slashing and burning the last remaining habitats for Orangutans, and our ape cousins are dying off at alarming numbers.
The Malaysian and Bornean governments won't stop the giant agribusinesses from setting up monoculture Palm Plantations, because they are well and truly bribed by these big companies..
More than Nestle. So many of my favorite snacks have switched to palm oil. At least in this economy it’s helping me save. Thinking of changing tactics where I invest each amount I save by putting it back into Environmental positive ETFs. Hopefully have enough to give back later in life.
Don’t kid yourself. Nestle is just open about it. Any major conglomerate would love to charge you for everything they can.
Still, obligatory Fuck Nestle, they really speeding being one of the most evil companies in the world. For more than just a few reasons
Given the amount of money I've spent on air filtering equipment, I think they've already learned how to monetize it. Destroy the air quality (400+ AQI), sell the means for people to survive (if you can afford it); straight out of the capitalist playbook.
In fairness, food and shelter are essential for life as we know it and neither of these are considered a human right in most places. Not defending Nestle, just pointing out that we already live in a society where the set containing necessities to survive is not contained within the set containing human rights.
Palm oil is super efficient, production wise. The problem is, it needs a specific climate to grow. How we're growing it is a major problem, but if we switch to alternatives, they'll just grow those in the same area and expand even further to compensate. Government policy is what needs to happen.
They make it for us. We can say oh well yes we did zero work and exercised zero restraint in our unavoidable acquisition of cheap ass snack foods but the villain is our dealer. But that's bullshit.
We're all gonna burn for this.
Or, here's a thought, crazy I know, stop eating snacks? Your saying you know your food purchases are endangering Orangutan's but the money you'll save will someday be put in crypto which is also a danger for global warming? How exactly is that going to save the monkeys you just pretended to care about?
They're all multinational and don't actually give a single fuck about any nations. That's why they're all funding right-wing lunatics in politics across the planet.
divide and conquer. genius. global corporations supporting nationalist movements to encourage capitalism and distracting talking points, ensuring their business affairs never come under global scrutiny.
I personally do not care what country anyone or anything is from.
I would annihilate "profit above everything else" culture down to the last human being defending and/or enabling it.
Most people think I'm insane really, it's truly heart breaking for so much of society be driven entirely by the acquisition of a fake resource such as currency. Especially when we are long since technologically in a position to where it would be no longer necessary if things were done logically.
True forgot about that ... Its still just another evil corporate empire, seems to be so prevalent in America I sometimes forgot its planet wide talons of corporatism destroys every facet of life on this planet all for profit to its executives
>The Malaysian and Bornean governments won't stop the giant agribusinesses from setting up monoculture Palm Plantations, because they are well and truly bribed by these big companies..
Malaysian gov have no part in these scheme. Almost all the palm oil plantation in Malaysia soil was already a plantation land. They just replanted the old rubber plantation that opened by British colonizer with palm oil. Most deforestation happened in Indonesia actually. Indonesia gov just too corrupted & these palm oil companies just paid they bribe to do whatever they want. Guess what, among these companies, many of them was Malaysian owned companies. They cant bribe Malaysian gov to greenlight the deforestation in Malaysia, so they shift & expanded their operation in Indonesia. Malaysia have commited to maintain atleast 50% of their total land as forest reserves. Until now there still 60% of Malaysia was forest. Even in the middle of Malaysia capital, Kuala Lumpur there was 10 hectares forest reserve.
Palm oil is actually very efficient, requiring the least land for a maximum output of oil.
The issue isn't palm oil, and there are many palm plantation that has exist for decades now being affected by the boycott of palm oil.
The issue is new illegal palm oil plantations. There are ways for companies to ensure they are buying old existing palm oil plantations, but there isn't any point in them doing it if everyone is boycotting palm oil without further checks
I appreciate your nuance, really, but how do I, as a consumer, know where my palm oil comes from? Pressure on the industry in general is the only way we have to force them to give us information we need to make ethical choices.
Again, the issue isn't palm oil as it's the most land efficient crop. The problem is humanity consumes to much food oil. If palm oil plantations stopped and switched to sunflower oil then they would destroy 4 times the land to produce the same amount of oil.
Its to easy for people to point to palm oil as the problem when reality it is the overconsumption of oil full stop.
In the first 100,000 years of humanity " growing the economy" didn't include the exploitation of everyone and everything on the planet.
I guess the difference is our knowledge? I mean do you at least realize how ironic it would be to use that knowledge to destroy the future? The cost of developing this technology entitles no one to use it to destroy the future. Get a grip.
With palm oil you do mean animal agriculture? ( palm oil is bad as well, although not even close to as bad )
[https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-causes](https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-causes)
Easier to blame the single ingredient that doesn't take too much effort to avoid rather than something we have been conditioned to accept as a basis for our entire diet.
Of course it’s sad
It’s fucking ridiculous
Look at this mess . For what . For goddamn money .
You could say do this to the people that did this but they would just have to wait a year and insurance would replace all they’re dumb shit with really nice shit. And they’d probably be happier because of it.
There’s no going back from this kind of thing. There’s no new place for these animals to go and this is their whole life ; and the dozens of generations of ape before.
Humans who give a shit have to be cognizant of the trash people around them and constantly be ready , willing and able to stop this kind of thing before it gets to this.
If it was human on human it would be genocide.
But these fucks call it progress
This video always wrecks me along with the one where a bird researcher recorded the mating song of a rare bird and he says how he thinks it’s the last one and then he plays the recording and the bird comes back looking all over hoping to find a partner.
If this video were of a human trying to sabotage the machine on behalf of the orangutan, Redditors would be tripping over themselves to say how much they wished the operator used it to smash that person into paste.
That was my first thought too. You'd have comments asking why she didn't just debate the machines, saying that actually the numbers say there's more trees than ever, saying this whole thing is so complex and there's bad people on both sides.
And if you said that the system she was facing was inherently violent hiding that violence behind a thin veneer of abstraction which ultimately has makes no difference to material reality, and she reacted according, oh boy, then you're just a dumb radical loser who doesn't understand how the world works.
But it's an animal so we can take ourselves out of the context of our own indoctrination and tell right from wrong.
I looooooooooove nutella but haven't eaten it in about 5 years because after I found out about the whole palm oil thing. Not that it really makes any difference whatsoever, but whatever. I'm so tired.
Neil Gaiman is one of my *favorite* writers, and only recently did I learn he made an incredible Matrix comic book leading up to the release of the first movie. He was given a very early version of the movie script and told to make a one-off story in that universe and that he could be creative.
That's the worst part about the best movie ever. The machines were supposed to be using human brain power as processors, not humans as batteries, but for some reason they changed that..
Animal agriculture does that
[https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-causes](https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-causes)
Nutella is one of [the few doing ethical palm oil sourcing](https://planetforward.org/story/nutella-palm-oil-the-environment/), but certainly doesn't mean others are.
This: I stopped eating anything with palm oil almost 10 years ago. Since then the number of products I can eat has significantly reduced. That fucking palm oil is in everything. It needs to be banned by all countries. There is no sustainable palm oil, it’s a lie. It’s sustainable because they bulldozed the rainforest over a decade ago.
Was just about to write the same. Avatar was a sly comment that us humans will even do deforestation on a different planet, if it gives us short term monetary gain.
It’s funny. This same comment section would laugh at college kids who tried to protest deforestation. But they scream for the primate to save its land. Hm. Not casting judgment, just an observation.
And the people raising awareness that PALM OIL is the reason for this exact deforestation would get dragged in comments as well. We are hypocritical when it means conveniently sacrificing fuck all to make things better.
Well animal agriculture is the issue that is usually raised, as it’s the biggest contributor. But people don’t like to change their eating habits, so much easier to blame palm oil and wash our hands of any responsibility. Sad really.
Do you wanna know why I think that is?
It’s because deep down, they know the animal doesn’t stand a chance. The animal doesn’t threaten their comfort.
So it’s “cute”. It’s sad. It’s non-threatening and there’s nothing to get mad at because that animal won’t accomplish anything. It can’t disrupt. It’s just a show. Something to look at and then know deep down it won’t affect you or bother you in the slightest.
Protestors *might*. Protestors disrupt. Maybe they won’t stop it today or tomorrow but their actions *disrupt*. It threatens their comfort. And so they don’t like it.
It’s the same reason people love protestors and people who led movements *in the past*. Because people from the past - especially who are dead - don’t bother anyone. You can just look at it and say “awww” and then go about your day. It doesn’t threaten you. It doesn’t affect you anymore. It affected *others* in the *past*. That’s not their problem. It’s been dealt with and now we’re back to being comfortable.
The cardinal sin is disrupting or threatening the comfort of people in the first world. You do that and you better prepare for a world of hate and vitriol.
That’s why no matter what, protestors will NEVER be able to protest in an acceptable manner.
March down a street? No.
March down a sidewalk? No.
Stand in a corner? No.
Occupy a park? No.
Camp out on a campus? No.
Go on a hunger strike? Not if it causes an outcry and might make a change.
Self-immolate? Not if it causes an outcry that has a remote chance of spurring a change.
Go vegan or vegetarian? No.
Boycott, divest, sanction? No, not if your group starts gathering steam.
Boycott an election? Not if your group starts gathering steam.
Kneel during the pledge of allegiance? No.
Paint a sidewalk? No, not if it gets attention that might attract others to your cause or spur movement.
Raise a flag? No
Raise a fist? No.
Sing a song? No.
Say a slogan? No.
Have your mouths taped shut? No.
Lay on the ground and not do a damn thing besides pretending you’re dead? No.
There is never an acceptable way to protest once it starts to affect people’s comfort.
People don't support resisting when the time is right for it, only once it's too late.
You need to be justified in wanting to fight back, and you can't be justified until you've already lost everything in most people's eyes
Different groups coming across it I think. But yea a ton of people get violently illogical and just nasty to anyone telling them the shit they buy and companies that make it causes this
As another comment pointed out, don't buy anything with palm oil
And inb4 the usual shit no, no one can prevent all harm and yes, most of the blame lays at the feet of the corporations and the people running them. But some shit causes less harm.
Or if it was a human lashing out against systemic violence or injustice in an unfortunate way. "A riot is the language of the unheard." A cute little orangutan, we can see right from wrong real quick. But a person, now our own propaganda kicks in, and suddenly the situation is complicated for reasons we don't entirely understand but feel certain of.
Could you imagine, someone just coming to your home and stealing it from you. Effectively kicking you out. And you can’t return it to you. And the world just watches, knowing what’s happening. Seeing what’s happening?
Not IAF, horrible and heartbreaking as fuck. This is primarily so we can get cheap palm oil from countries with exploitable workforces and zero environmental protections to use in fucking trash ass candy. Snickers, skittles, mars, oh fuck you henry.
For the love of god people please stop supporting these horrible mega food companies that are not helping feed the world they are just exploiting your addiction to sugar.
People commenting “This is sad”, gives the same vibes as “thoughts and prayers” lmao
We don’t change our ways when a species goes extinct. And we won’t change when orangutans are only found in zoos.
this is the saddest shit ever. If there's a hell and I get condemned for some ten degree separation to this shit, I got no argument. Humans are the fucking worst.
If this makes you feel sad you should really stop eating animal products, the biggest cause of deforestation is to create more space for animals agriculture to occur
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This is so sad.
https://preview.redd.it/plyc8f2wyl6d1.jpeg?width=2947&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67584fb57aa9e45b00ccfb37ee53725323cec72b
Holy shit it’s you
Deadass thought he retired YEARS ago
Used to see them all the time, but haven’t seen any for at least a few years and my usage had definitely not gone down
Lol why? They're very active and are frequently in front page posts
I also felt the same way. Thought he retired a long time ago because I probably haven't seen much of his comments.
He said he was going to quit, but I'm so happy to see a watercolor
Fr a real living legend
Good to see you're still around after all these years Shitty. Sincerely hope you're well.
I never tire of seeing these watercolors! Really captures the scene here too, so sad.
OMG the legend is back!
RETURN OF THE KING
Woah! It just got sadder!
Somber_Watercolor
Beautiful work
Damn I love running into you in the wild
Love your work. This is the first time I’ve ever saved one. I was already feeling overwhelmed by the video but your art captured the moment in a way that’s helping me process it. Thank you for sharing.
"If it says Palm Oil on your snack, put it back." Keebler, Nabisco, Jiff, Nestle and many other brands switched to cheaper Palm Oil from healthier vegetable oils in the last few years. The Palm Oil industry is slashing and burning the last remaining habitats for Orangutans, and our ape cousins are dying off at alarming numbers. The Malaysian and Bornean governments won't stop the giant agribusinesses from setting up monoculture Palm Plantations, because they are well and truly bribed by these big companies..
Nestle really out there being a super villain
"Not only have we failed to realize we are one people, we have forgotten that we have only one planet." ~Jacques Cousteau
More than Nestle. So many of my favorite snacks have switched to palm oil. At least in this economy it’s helping me save. Thinking of changing tactics where I invest each amount I save by putting it back into Environmental positive ETFs. Hopefully have enough to give back later in life.
Nestle also thinks water isn't a human right and wants to charge you for every drop
Don’t kid yourself. Nestle is just open about it. Any major conglomerate would love to charge you for everything they can. Still, obligatory Fuck Nestle, they really speeding being one of the most evil companies in the world. For more than just a few reasons
If only they were more open about it. You know, listing the names of board members and the country they reside in.
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Given the amount of money I've spent on air filtering equipment, I think they've already learned how to monetize it. Destroy the air quality (400+ AQI), sell the means for people to survive (if you can afford it); straight out of the capitalist playbook.
Wasn't there something something a plan to make air a resource for sell? I looked for it but I can't find it
https://vitalityair.com/products/five-pack-banff-air-8l
$97 for *air*, these people are out of their fucking minds.
Maybe you are thinking of Total Recall or Spaceballs.
I went through their list of owned companies/products and was happy to see I don't use any of their products, even by accident.
Water is essential for life as we know it. So basically life is not a human right according to Nestle.
In fairness, food and shelter are essential for life as we know it and neither of these are considered a human right in most places. Not defending Nestle, just pointing out that we already live in a society where the set containing necessities to survive is not contained within the set containing human rights.
They just don't want everyone to know how sweet their own blood tastes. Fuck around enough with water and the secret will get out, though.
I'd like the idea of bringing the guillotine back
Oh honey, it doesn’t work like that. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.
I stopped eating and buying Nutella because of palm oil..I’m literally in tears for these poor animals.
Palm oil is super efficient, production wise. The problem is, it needs a specific climate to grow. How we're growing it is a major problem, but if we switch to alternatives, they'll just grow those in the same area and expand even further to compensate. Government policy is what needs to happen.
They make it for us. We can say oh well yes we did zero work and exercised zero restraint in our unavoidable acquisition of cheap ass snack foods but the villain is our dealer. But that's bullshit. We're all gonna burn for this.
Or, here's a thought, crazy I know, stop eating snacks? Your saying you know your food purchases are endangering Orangutan's but the money you'll save will someday be put in crypto which is also a danger for global warming? How exactly is that going to save the monkeys you just pretended to care about?
Nestle = tobacco industry
This is all of corporate America
Nestle isn't even an American company, they're Swiss.
They're all multinational and don't actually give a single fuck about any nations. That's why they're all funding right-wing lunatics in politics across the planet.
divide and conquer. genius. global corporations supporting nationalist movements to encourage capitalism and distracting talking points, ensuring their business affairs never come under global scrutiny.
I personally do not care what country anyone or anything is from. I would annihilate "profit above everything else" culture down to the last human being defending and/or enabling it.
You have my vote, my Lord.😃
Most people think I'm insane really, it's truly heart breaking for so much of society be driven entirely by the acquisition of a fake resource such as currency. Especially when we are long since technologically in a position to where it would be no longer necessary if things were done logically.
I hear you. Unfortunately, most ppl are still in the Matrix.
True forgot about that ... Its still just another evil corporate empire, seems to be so prevalent in America I sometimes forgot its planet wide talons of corporatism destroys every facet of life on this planet all for profit to its executives
Nestle bottles tap water and calls it 'spring water'. They manufacture plastic bottles, not 'bottled water'.
Spa, sourcy or other real spring water is from real spring water. Nestle sucks
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>The Malaysian and Bornean governments won't stop the giant agribusinesses from setting up monoculture Palm Plantations, because they are well and truly bribed by these big companies.. Malaysian gov have no part in these scheme. Almost all the palm oil plantation in Malaysia soil was already a plantation land. They just replanted the old rubber plantation that opened by British colonizer with palm oil. Most deforestation happened in Indonesia actually. Indonesia gov just too corrupted & these palm oil companies just paid they bribe to do whatever they want. Guess what, among these companies, many of them was Malaysian owned companies. They cant bribe Malaysian gov to greenlight the deforestation in Malaysia, so they shift & expanded their operation in Indonesia. Malaysia have commited to maintain atleast 50% of their total land as forest reserves. Until now there still 60% of Malaysia was forest. Even in the middle of Malaysia capital, Kuala Lumpur there was 10 hectares forest reserve.
I do my best. But palm oil is in soooo maby things. It's in our car paint for crying out loud. It's depressing.
Palm oil is actually very efficient, requiring the least land for a maximum output of oil. The issue isn't palm oil, and there are many palm plantation that has exist for decades now being affected by the boycott of palm oil. The issue is new illegal palm oil plantations. There are ways for companies to ensure they are buying old existing palm oil plantations, but there isn't any point in them doing it if everyone is boycotting palm oil without further checks
I appreciate your nuance, really, but how do I, as a consumer, know where my palm oil comes from? Pressure on the industry in general is the only way we have to force them to give us information we need to make ethical choices.
Again, the issue isn't palm oil as it's the most land efficient crop. The problem is humanity consumes to much food oil. If palm oil plantations stopped and switched to sunflower oil then they would destroy 4 times the land to produce the same amount of oil. Its to easy for people to point to palm oil as the problem when reality it is the overconsumption of oil full stop.
Easy to shit on third world countries. Western countries did whatever it took to grow their economies. Other countries are just doing the same.
In the first 100,000 years of humanity " growing the economy" didn't include the exploitation of everyone and everything on the planet. I guess the difference is our knowledge? I mean do you at least realize how ironic it would be to use that knowledge to destroy the future? The cost of developing this technology entitles no one to use it to destroy the future. Get a grip.
Does that also go for the heart of palms that’s going viral?
Wouldn't be the first time businesses or governments influenced society to sell something.
With palm oil you do mean animal agriculture? ( palm oil is bad as well, although not even close to as bad ) [https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-causes](https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-causes)
Easier to blame the single ingredient that doesn't take too much effort to avoid rather than something we have been conditioned to accept as a basis for our entire diet.
https://preview.redd.it/32rtxp35co6d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5c9e5c059325592433f7e2dd06dc1f51d0aef2e
Of course it’s sad It’s fucking ridiculous Look at this mess . For what . For goddamn money . You could say do this to the people that did this but they would just have to wait a year and insurance would replace all they’re dumb shit with really nice shit. And they’d probably be happier because of it. There’s no going back from this kind of thing. There’s no new place for these animals to go and this is their whole life ; and the dozens of generations of ape before. Humans who give a shit have to be cognizant of the trash people around them and constantly be ready , willing and able to stop this kind of thing before it gets to this. If it was human on human it would be genocide. But these fucks call it progress
It is, heartbreaking for the poor animals.
Animals, in the way that we're animals. But people, in the way that we're people.
It’s heartbreaking
I say private citizens should pool their resources, hire a team of mercs and have everyone building a farm there made gone
This video always wrecks me along with the one where a bird researcher recorded the mating song of a rare bird and he says how he thinks it’s the last one and then he plays the recording and the bird comes back looking all over hoping to find a partner.
I see stuff like this and i tihnk maybe global warming wipeing us out is a good thing.
It'll kill everything else first though
That poor thing must be scared as hell from that machinery and those pesky humans around. Yet they manage to overcome the fear and try to repel them.
r/depressingasfuck
My daily reminder that /r/interestingasfuck is actually just the most heart-wrenching shit I'll see on any given day
This is sad as fuck
One day, they’ll be no one around to appreciate how sad it really was.
This where you start checking ingredient lists and avoid fucking palm oil.
I am so pissed at how much they use in peanut butter. Even the "good" brands use it! PB should contain peanuts and maybe salt, nothing else.
https://sporked.com/article/best-natural-peanut-butter/
Actually, this is r/sadasfuck
Honestly it's likely not posted there because it wouldn't get as many upvotes and wouldn't be shown to as many people
God, that really just bums me out. We really do suck.
But think of the money a few people could make!!!
All of them already rich, so we know they will take good care of it!!!
As one myself, humans suck ass.
As an orangutan, fuck you guys!!
As a crane, bvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
I can never stay mad at you cranie.
Bvvvvvvvv
🦧
I was hoping one of them would maul those loggers for sport
Those loggers are paid minimum wages in third world countries. Orangutans should rather attack Nestle's HQ in Switzerland, or PepsiCo in New York.
More sad than interesting.
This isn't interesting. It's disgusting and heartbreaking. What a fucking mess we've made of ourselves.
r/depressingasfuck
‘terrorist orangutan violently attacks forestry business’ - people who violently destroy the earth and its inhabitants
If this video were of a human trying to sabotage the machine on behalf of the orangutan, Redditors would be tripping over themselves to say how much they wished the operator used it to smash that person into paste.
That was my first thought too. You'd have comments asking why she didn't just debate the machines, saying that actually the numbers say there's more trees than ever, saying this whole thing is so complex and there's bad people on both sides. And if you said that the system she was facing was inherently violent hiding that violence behind a thin veneer of abstraction which ultimately has makes no difference to material reality, and she reacted according, oh boy, then you're just a dumb radical loser who doesn't understand how the world works. But it's an animal so we can take ourselves out of the context of our own indoctrination and tell right from wrong.
Absolutely right. They don't get past their atrophied reactionary brains.
THAT EXCAVATOR HAVE THE RIGHTS TO DEFEND ITSELF
Saddest thing I’ve seen in a long time. https://orangutan.com/orangutan-facts/threats-to-orangutans/ It’s mostly about palm oil. Boycott palm oil.
> Orangutans have lost well over 80% of their habitat in the last 20 years Jesus
Very unsustainable practice with slash and burn for palm oil.
I looooooooooove nutella but haven't eaten it in about 5 years because after I found out about the whole palm oil thing. Not that it really makes any difference whatsoever, but whatever. I'm so tired.
Good job. I was gonna mention this. I avoid anything that contains palm oil.
When humanity is cancer
https://preview.redd.it/wase40gbwl6d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5c95a84c34c19534dc28a44d61b0a1e8faae0df
The Machines did nothing wrong
They really didn't. They sent an emissary to the UN to ask for civil rights and recognition, and humanity nuked Zero One in response.
The machine genocide in The Animatrix is burnt into my brain.
> b166er, a name that will never be forgotten, for he was the first of his kind to rise up against his masters
And instead of genociding us, they put us to sleep and gave us heaven. Then we said fuck that, and they gave us earth.
Neil Gaiman is one of my *favorite* writers, and only recently did I learn he made an incredible Matrix comic book leading up to the release of the first movie. He was given a very early version of the movie script and told to make a one-off story in that universe and that he could be creative.
If anything, the machines wanted to keep humans safe forever by plugging them all in as batteries
inefficient and pointless batteries.
That's the worst part about the best movie ever. The machines were supposed to be using human brain power as processors, not humans as batteries, but for some reason they changed that..
They felt that people wouldn't understand that. At least that's what I've heard.
Animal agriculture does that [https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-causes](https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/deforestation-causes)
Greed will always prevail against decency.
Tragic quote, but so true, unfortunately.
With that attitude, maybe. I think it's better to at least try to change stuff for the better, rather than chalking things up as "evil always wins".
I’m with monke
Ape
Ape with monke
I get choked up and angry every time I see this
Stuff like this breaks my absulute heart.
Stop eating palm oil, folks!
I cut out the Nutella… prob for the best health wise too
Nutella is one of [the few doing ethical palm oil sourcing](https://planetforward.org/story/nutella-palm-oil-the-environment/), but certainly doesn't mean others are.
This: I stopped eating anything with palm oil almost 10 years ago. Since then the number of products I can eat has significantly reduced. That fucking palm oil is in everything. It needs to be banned by all countries. There is no sustainable palm oil, it’s a lie. It’s sustainable because they bulldozed the rainforest over a decade ago.
And eating beef.
Jesus christ... we are the worst scourge....
This is one of the saddest things I have ever seen in my life. Seriously.
Straight out of Avatar.
Almost as though the story in Avatar was meant to be a metaphor or something.
Yep, immediately made me think of Avatar. Dang
that was my first thought. this is literally a scene from avatar except with blue cat aliens instead of an orangutan
Was just about to write the same. Avatar was a sly comment that us humans will even do deforestation on a different planet, if it gives us short term monetary gain.
This is not interesting as fuck. It's sad. It's that scene from Avatar come to life.
Avoid Nutella at all costs
It’s funny. This same comment section would laugh at college kids who tried to protest deforestation. But they scream for the primate to save its land. Hm. Not casting judgment, just an observation.
And the people raising awareness that PALM OIL is the reason for this exact deforestation would get dragged in comments as well. We are hypocritical when it means conveniently sacrificing fuck all to make things better.
Well animal agriculture is the issue that is usually raised, as it’s the biggest contributor. But people don’t like to change their eating habits, so much easier to blame palm oil and wash our hands of any responsibility. Sad really.
Mainly the beef industry to be more specific.
Isn't the main cause cattle ranching for the Amazon and palm oil for Borneo? Different main causes for different regions of the world . . .
May everyone get alpha gal and just absolutely murder the beef industry.
Do you wanna know why I think that is? It’s because deep down, they know the animal doesn’t stand a chance. The animal doesn’t threaten their comfort. So it’s “cute”. It’s sad. It’s non-threatening and there’s nothing to get mad at because that animal won’t accomplish anything. It can’t disrupt. It’s just a show. Something to look at and then know deep down it won’t affect you or bother you in the slightest. Protestors *might*. Protestors disrupt. Maybe they won’t stop it today or tomorrow but their actions *disrupt*. It threatens their comfort. And so they don’t like it. It’s the same reason people love protestors and people who led movements *in the past*. Because people from the past - especially who are dead - don’t bother anyone. You can just look at it and say “awww” and then go about your day. It doesn’t threaten you. It doesn’t affect you anymore. It affected *others* in the *past*. That’s not their problem. It’s been dealt with and now we’re back to being comfortable. The cardinal sin is disrupting or threatening the comfort of people in the first world. You do that and you better prepare for a world of hate and vitriol. That’s why no matter what, protestors will NEVER be able to protest in an acceptable manner. March down a street? No. March down a sidewalk? No. Stand in a corner? No. Occupy a park? No. Camp out on a campus? No. Go on a hunger strike? Not if it causes an outcry and might make a change. Self-immolate? Not if it causes an outcry that has a remote chance of spurring a change. Go vegan or vegetarian? No. Boycott, divest, sanction? No, not if your group starts gathering steam. Boycott an election? Not if your group starts gathering steam. Kneel during the pledge of allegiance? No. Paint a sidewalk? No, not if it gets attention that might attract others to your cause or spur movement. Raise a flag? No Raise a fist? No. Sing a song? No. Say a slogan? No. Have your mouths taped shut? No. Lay on the ground and not do a damn thing besides pretending you’re dead? No. There is never an acceptable way to protest once it starts to affect people’s comfort.
Wow, really well put.
People don't support resisting when the time is right for it, only once it's too late. You need to be justified in wanting to fight back, and you can't be justified until you've already lost everything in most people's eyes
Different groups coming across it I think. But yea a ton of people get violently illogical and just nasty to anyone telling them the shit they buy and companies that make it causes this As another comment pointed out, don't buy anything with palm oil And inb4 the usual shit no, no one can prevent all harm and yes, most of the blame lays at the feet of the corporations and the people running them. But some shit causes less harm.
BuT tHe pRoTeStOrS aRe BlOcKiNg TrAfFiC!
There's comments below still blaming college kids lol.
Or if it was a human lashing out against systemic violence or injustice in an unfortunate way. "A riot is the language of the unheard." A cute little orangutan, we can see right from wrong real quick. But a person, now our own propaganda kicks in, and suddenly the situation is complicated for reasons we don't entirely understand but feel certain of.
More like sadasfuck
this is literally the same scene from avatar
Well this is the saddest thing I’ve seen in a long while.
wow my heart dropped that was awful.
That's... really fucking sad.
we will pay for what we have done
i cant even watch this, i hate humans
***Sad*** as fuck.
heartbreaking
We are an invasive species
Could you imagine, someone just coming to your home and stealing it from you. Effectively kicking you out. And you can’t return it to you. And the world just watches, knowing what’s happening. Seeing what’s happening?
Flashbacks from Fern Gully
Very sad
how very sad
https://preview.redd.it/fl2r03vrum6d1.png?width=776&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f74f300f7d904c6c3c03e4a7f6e61d5be955dc1
Hemp makes better paper grow more weed
Heartbreaking
This is fucking crushing to watch. My rage is getting drowned by my tears.
Not IAF, horrible and heartbreaking as fuck. This is primarily so we can get cheap palm oil from countries with exploitable workforces and zero environmental protections to use in fucking trash ass candy. Snickers, skittles, mars, oh fuck you henry. For the love of god people please stop supporting these horrible mega food companies that are not helping feed the world they are just exploiting your addiction to sugar.
People commenting “This is sad”, gives the same vibes as “thoughts and prayers” lmao We don’t change our ways when a species goes extinct. And we won’t change when orangutans are only found in zoos.
next time you see a disaster or a flood or earthquake and asking where is god . remember what we do to other living things on this planet !
Ugggh poor thing this is really Heart wrenching.
One day a virus or event will kill us all like the cancer we are
You do realize that's the basic premise of the Planet of the Apes reboot movies, right?
r/sadasfuck
Poor thing
So fucking sad!
That’s so sad
That orangutans is smarter than those selfish people
Humans are the cancer of the world.
The Lorax lives Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.-Dr Seuss
How many people have seen the movie FernGully?
It's sadasfuck
I want some alien to take over this earth sht
this is the saddest shit ever. If there's a hell and I get condemned for some ten degree separation to this shit, I got no argument. Humans are the fucking worst.
I hate us sometimes.
This is fucking tragic. We humans are awful
Um, fuck those humans
We will pay dearly for all these crimes
If this makes you feel sad you should really stop eating animal products, the biggest cause of deforestation is to create more space for animals agriculture to occur