[sustran] Biofooling-Mythanol / Five years to save the orang utan

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

Biofuel demand makes food expensive

excerpt:

"2007 should be a wonderful year," he says with an optimism 
uncharacteristic of the often hard-pressed farming community.

"At the coffee-shop people were talking about doctors quitting and 
taking up farming."


<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6481029.stm>

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Five years to save the orang utan

Excerpt:
Workers don't usually have guns: the orang utans that get shot are the 
lucky ones. We've seen them beaten to death with wood sticks or iron 
bars, doused in petrol and set on fire, trussed up in nets or tied up 
with wire which cuts through their flesh. Often a mother is killed and 
eaten while its baby is sold on or kept as a pet. In the local 
plantations where we're working, the managers have now agreed not to 
offer the bonus. But there's still a macho thing about bringing down an 
adult male.'

<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2042243,00.html>

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