Stop the Cheetos!

[Ben]

Basement dwellers everywhere are in a panic:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/30/news/companies/cheetos-deforestation/index.html

[brimic]

So it sounds like palm trees are out competing elephants, rhinos, orangtangs, etc, merely by tasting good.

If the gaia worshipers want to do some real good, they would develop some delicious food products made from elephants, rhinos, etc, and figure out a way to mass farm them.

The corralary to that is that Pandas must taste really bad.... if they tasted good, there would be billions of them.

[charby]

A few years ago there was a similar outrage with bio diesel made from palm oil and growth of plantations.

[BobR]

I for one will welcome the cessation of Cheetos production. No longer will ERs across the country be over run with hordes of screaming basement dwellers who seldom shower afraid their manhood is on the verge of falling off because it has an orange tint to it.











kidding, really, just kidding, it's a joke that would take too long to type out.


bob

[Boomhauer]

Who gives a flying *expletive deleted*ck about Cheetos? The mother *expletive deleted*ers are going after something far more important!!

SumOfUs has launched similar palm oil deforestation campaigns against Kellogg's (K), Krispy Kreme (KKD) and McDonald's (MCD).

They better keep their hands off of my goddamn Krispy Kreme or else

[BobR]

I once worked an ER where we were the go to place for workman's comp injuries to the Krispy Kreme workers, mainly burns. You always knew when one of them was in the ER, the place smelled like fresh donuts for a change rather than the normal smells. It was a pleasant change of odors.  :)


bob

[KD5NRH]

If the gaia worshipers want to do some real good, they would develop some delicious food products made from elephants, rhinos, etc, and figure out a way to mass farm them.

Dibs on the "Metrosexual Rhino Wranglers" reality show.

[Jocassee]

Only one solution to this.

BUY ALL THE DONUTS.

[MechAg94]

Palm oil has been a problematic ingredient, because it is often obtained by clearing rainforests, according to the World Wildlife Federation. That has threatened the habitats of many endangered species, including elephants, orangutans, rhinoceroses and tigers.

So why don't they just make all the palm oil by clear cutting rain forests in South America.  Then the elephants, orangutans, rhinoceroses, and tigers will be unaffected.   

[Perd Hapley]

Who gives a flying *expletive deleted*ck about Cheetos? The mother *expletive deleted*ers are going after something far more important!!

They better keep their hands off of my goddamn Krispy Kreme or else

Don't they have real donuts where you live? 

[BlueStarLizzard]

Somehow, when it comes down to the battle for the environment vs. junk food in this country, I think junk food will win, hands down, every time.

All hail the junk food! All Hail!

[Boomhauer]

Don't they have real donuts where you live? 

We don't suffer under imitation cake donuts like ya'll. We eat fried yeast donuts, as God intended.

[BlueStarLizzard]

We don't suffer under imitation cake donuts like ya'll. We eat fried yeast donuts, as God intended.

Hear! Hear!

[Perd Hapley]

We don't suffer under imitation cake donuts like ya'll. We eat fried yeast donuts, as God intended.

Uh, we got all kinds o' donuts here. Including the donuts and beignets my wife makes. 

[charby]

We don't suffer under imitation cake donuts like ya'll. We eat fried yeast donuts, as God intended.

I prefer mine made with potato flour like the God Damn Germans intended donuts to be.

[Perd Hapley]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nG9q5_uqI8

[brimic]

Don't they have real donuts where you live? 

+1
Krispy kremes are barely edible.

[MechAg94]

Somehow, when it comes down to the battle for the environment vs. junk food in this country, I think junk food will win, hands down, every time.

All hail the junk food! All Hail!

The secret is to invent a junk food that is made from whales, elephants, orangutans, rhinoceroses, and tigers.  We will then have a surplus of those animals as breeders and ranchers work to supply the market. 

[Scout26]

Didn't they switch to Palm oil because the other oils (IIRC, Lard, Vegetable Oil, etc.)  were determined to be "Bad for you", by other do-gooders?

[wmenorr67]

Didn't they switch to Palm oil because the other oils (IIRC, Lard, Vegetable Oil, etc.)  were determined to be "Bad for you", by other do-gooders?

Shhhhh!!!!!!

[Ben]

Didn't they switch to Palm oil because the other oils (IIRC, Lard, Vegetable Oil, etc.)  were determined to be "Bad for you", by other do-gooders?

Also as a "sustainable" biofuel.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/brinkley/article/Palm-oil-proving-unhealthy-for-people-environment-5063474.php

Funny, sustainable is only that if supply and demand agree to participate. I remember at the old job I was part of the design team for a new small boat (62 footer). I was only involved on the electronics side, but saw everything in the contract requirements. The gov insisted we used "sustainable" wood from South America for all the exposed interior woodwork. I can't remember the name of the wood, but I blew my top when I found it was nearly double the cost of "regular" wood. I wondered how sustainable it would be if everyone who needed wood chose to (or was forced to) go "sustainable".