The Return Of Paseo . . . Tigers Beware!

If Fiora paper products look familiar, then you know about Paseo, the paper towel and toilet paper brand that got its paper from the forests inhabited by endangered tigers in Indonesia.  Basically, the company, Oasis Brands, just replaced the word "PASEO" with the word "fiora" (perhaps the new all lowercase word represents their chastisement for endangering animals) on the same packaging design.  Let's hope Oasis has really changed the source of its paper and are no longer endangering tigers as well!  That's what the company is claiming anyway.  They're even trying to do some good for people in need now.

If the World Wildlife Fund or another independent source such as the Forest Stewardship Council verifies Oasis's claims, I could see buying its products again.

I just don't want to buy paper towels soaked in tiger blood.

Does This Look Familiar?

I was perusing the coupons in the direct mail advertising bundle when I came across this ad for a new toilet paper and paper towel brand.  Alas, I don't think it's actually new, just an old brand with a new name.  Do you recognize it?  If so, please comment.  Hint:  I've written about it before.

More tomorrow.

Paseo Is Passe! Tigers Roar In Celebration!

This summer, I accidentally bought some paper towels that were soaked with the blood of tigers.

OK, not literally soaked.  Just metaphorically.  You can read my previous posts about it here, but basically a company was chopping down the forest that tigers in Indonesia lived in just so people in the United States could mop up spills and wipe their asses (they also made toilet paper; don't worry, I don't use paper towels to clean my bottom after defecation).  Recently, the World Wildlife Fund (or WWF, as they like to be called now, though that name still makes me think of Hulk Hogan putting "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in a headlock) noted that the brand name of the company, Paseo, was discontinued.  Now, the company might just use another name for their products and pop up again on store shelves, but let's enjoy the company doing the right thing for the moment and hope that we and the tigers can coexist happily somehow from now on.

We can always recycle paper, but it's harder to recycle tigers.

For one thing, they keep chewing their way out of the paper bags.

All kidding aside, once the tigers are gone, they're not coming back.  And though we may never want to be neighbors with a tiger, I don't think we want to live in a world without tigers at all.

Deal$ Tigers Don't Like

A dollar store called Deal$ is advertising Paseo bath tissue this week in its newspaper circular.  Paseo is the brand that the World Wildlife Fund claims is sourced from rainforests in Indonesia, threatening tigers there, a fact I discovered after I bought some of their paper towels.

Perhaps this is a good sign and the dollar store got a "deal" itself on the bath tissue since so many stores don't want them (Paseo has been dropped by a number of retailers, including Kmart).  Similar to my experience, if the product is already made though, then why not use it?  Oasis Brands, the company that makes Paseo, might be dropping the brand name (they no longer list it among their brands), but they have to dispose of the remaining stock.

Whatever happens to Paseo, more significant is that the company claims to be finding a better source for its paper supply.

If so, the tigers thank them.

Orangutun Versus Chicken

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I bought some paper towels and felt guilty about killing tigers.  Now, the orangutans in Indonesia are upset about fried chicken.

Fortunately, I am blameless this time.

KFC, according to Greenpeace, is not.  Apparently, KFC has been getting the paper for their chicken buckets from the Indonesian rainforest, and that's been causing the habitat for orangutans to disappear, and orangutans have enough problems already.

So the orangutans don't understand why we have to eat chicken and hassle them some more.

The tigers in Indonesia are threatened as well.

They agree with us though that chicken is delicious.

They just don't understand why we have to chop down their forests to eat it.