MONDAY February 8, 2010

Who watched the SUPERBOWL yesterday???

Now is everyone getting ready for a heart shaped weekend???

Hey!  We have an idea!

Give your partner a gift from OFI!

What about a cute OFI mug, adorable stamps with our baby orphan Sindura, or his or her very own personalized address labels!

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OR soaps!!  These are palm oil free bath soaps!

We love these for gifts!!

Now we have a new kind!

KAFFIR LIME ROSEMARY!

Kaffir Lime Rosemary - Used in various Thai spa treatments, Kaffir Lime is refreshing, enriched with Vitamin C, and contains natural bleaching properties.  A staple in many Southeast Asian households, this lime is used in cooking, medicinal tonics, cleansers, shampoos, and natural household cleaners. Kaolin and Bentonite Clays are swirled in to create a smooth, creamy lather, and help draw out impurities.

Call me in the office for help with your orders!

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Have you heard?

A volunteer sent me this article.

The battle over what is know as  “Canned Hunting” in South Africa leads to a possible slaughter of thousands of lions bred to be prey.

Animal rights groups have formulated new rules regarding the industry of breeding lions for prey.

A spokesman for one of the lion sanctuaries has this to say:

“Canned hunting means hunting in a small space where an animal has no chance of escape. People are doing it and satisfying their ego to say they killed a lion. They don’t particularly care how they shot that animal. The animals are looked at as a completely commercial tool, but these are living beings.”

Authorities have decided that once the lions are bred they must be allowed to roam for 2 years before they can be targeted as game.

These rules enforced by authorities will eventually lead to the extinction of lion hunting in South Africa which is a highly lucrative business of breeding lions to be used as prey for hunters.

The breeders feel they will be driven out of business and are angered by these new regulations.

Right now the South African Predator Breeder’s Association own about 4,300 lions. It takes approximately 800 lbs per month to feed these animals.

If they have these new regulations put on their industry, they worry the animals will die or must be killed.

“If you have to make a decision whether you are going to have to feed those lions and you are not going to get any income from that you are going to have no alternative but to kill them, which is very sad. We don’t breed lions to kill them, we breed them to hunt them.”

So far court action brought by breeders has been denied.

http://www.allbusiness.com/environment-natural-resources/environmental/13661193-1.html