Greenpeace Activists Stage Elaborate Prank to Protest Barbie ‘Destroying Rainforests’
- Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:56am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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I know this is hard to hear, but Ken dumped Barbie.
That’s at least according to the radical environmental group Greenpeace. The organization recently launched an elaborate marketing campaign protesting the iconic doll’s maker, Mattel, and its alleged use of packaging that contributes to deforestation. The group’s anger lies with the Singapore company Asian Pulp & Paper (APP), which Greenpeace accuses of clearcutting rain forests and destroying endangered species’ habitats.
So to make its point, Greenpeace put together an animated video where Ken finds out that Barbie is really a saw-wielding, crazy woman who hates rainforests and cute, cuddly tigers. The fake interviewer even calls her a “serial killer:”
But that was just the beginning. The group also launched a Facebook campaign that allows people to use an “Angry Ken” profile picture, and includes posters such as “unlike Barbie:”
And then last week, activists repelled down the side of Mattel‘s headquarters to unfurl a banner heralding Ken and Barbie’s breakup. The stunt even included a Barbie impersonator showing up in a pink bulldozer:
Initially, Mattel responded how you might imagine. Consumerist explains they dismissed the campaign as “inflammatory:”
The announcement was a change of pace from Mattel’s initial response to the Greenpeace action, which was to call their actions “inflammatory,” disable comments on Barbie’s Facebook wall, and shut down on trademark grounds Greenpeace’s Facebook ad campaign about the breakup.
But that only lasted so long. The latest news is that Mattel has capitulated and caved, suspending its relations with APP:
“While Mattel does not contract directly with Sinar Mas/APP, we have directed our packaging suppliers to stop sourcing pulp from them as we investigate the allegations,” the company announced on their Facebook page, which is usually reserved for promoting things like World Wish Day and cross-promoting Cars 2. The company also announced a new “Sustainable Procurement Policy” for all of their products which “will require packaging suppliers to commit to sustainable forestry management practices.”
That’s problematic, since APP vehemently denies Greenpeace’s allegations, noting that its paper products contain 95 percent recycled material:
Greenpeace has issued a 45-page report that boldly claims that some packaging that uses our paper contains mixed tropical hardwoods. It goes on to attack the toymakers who use this packaging. It also resurrects long-discredited allegations about Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) and our products.
All materials in APP carton box packaging, as well as all other APP produced paper products, come from a pulpwood supply that is verified to follow the legal guidelines of the country of origin, including Indonesia and any other country that APP imports pulp supply from.
Despite Greenpeace’s unsubstantiated allegations, the facts are that our packaging materials contain more than 95% of recycled paper sourced from around the world. Less than two percent of the pulp in those carton boxes comes from legal and sustainable Indonesia pulpwood plantations. And the remainder is from PEFC certified forests. APP is one of the few companies in Southeast Asia, which has been working hard to promote the production of this type of recycled carton box packaging. We are happy to share the scientific analysis of our packaging materials with anyone who wants to review it.
Can we really be surprised that there’s so much drama surrounding a story about Barbie?
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Comments (124)
quarter horseman
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:30amI may be interested in buying one of those dolls now she sounds like fun.
Report Post »Mustangrider
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:27amBrazil, you’re a dumb as, lumber companies can’t survive if they destroy their supply of the product they sell, I have worked in the lumber industry and every clear cut was replanted with good healthy trees evenly spaced so they grow health and strong, that’s why we call it a renewable resource. The land is not left to farmers because that land is designated or owned by the lumber companies and they don’t just give it to goat herders to use. The land may sit for a year or two while it waits to be replanted so you might see animals grazing there but that isn’t the end result.You are a brainwashed treehuggin fool. That land is on a 50 year rotation of planting and regrowth so it’s a slow process you use to lie and capitalize on your liberal agenda.
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:22amIf they ever legalize cannibalism, the first person I‘m ’having to lunch’ is a Greenpeace freak. At least then they would be good for something. BTW, please pass the gravy…
Report Post »WriteMike
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:10amGreenpeace should forget portesting and go into theatre production.
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teddrunk
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:03amGreenpeace leftist worry about a tree, but have no problem with the ATF Fast and Furious program that sold gun in Mexico that are turning up at murder sites. Program a complete failure, agents told to stand down from arresting people, a huge scandal involving ATF, Treasury Dept., Justice & Homeland Security and no one is covering it. A scandal being hidden easily as big as Watergate or Iran Contra.
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:52amKen is going to kick those pink commies rears when he gets home.
The horror of the Democrat mind.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:51amGreenpeace, grow up.
Report Post »usmc1063
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:50amNow I’ve seen it all an emasculated Ken. Give me a break ! Seems he would be better suited to a Bruce or a Dirk as a partner than a Barbie.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:50amAs much as I hate these folks, I think it is time we do put pressure on these companies to stop wasting so much in resources for their products. I just bought something at the store the packaging was 80% of what I bought for something small. I think the protest groups go too far and should stop trying to shock everyone and just make a good and fair argument and people will more likely listen to make changes.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:45amHurrah for the tree-hugging, pinko, hippies that didn’t have enough talent to become rock stars and found a different stage to make themselves feel important.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:41am“Ken finds out that Barbie is really a saw-wielding, crazy woman”
Report Post »Welcome to reality Ken. Get used to it. They’re all like that!
rayblue
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:33amIs there a muslim Barbie yet ? Complete with a beard cleaning brush and burka ?
Report Post »No car since they aren’t allowed to drive, no shoes, facial hair, underarm hair, leg hair, nose hair,
ear hair, hair hair and no deodorant.
and a Ken with a turban, angry countenance, 3 foot long beard, goat herd, and porn magazines.
11:11
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:09pmthat’s toooo funnny ;}
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:27am“Greenpeace put together an animated video where Ken finds out that Barbie is really a saw-wielding, crazy woman who hates rainforests and cute, cuddly tigers.”
But Ken had nothing to say when Barbie murdered the baby in her womb.
Report Post »USAFRetired
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:53amYou must be thinking it was Wieners love child.
Report Post »Cause Ken was always anatomically neutered.
So its not his fault for being Gay.
John 3:16
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:24amThe world was not created by man. God created the world and all the Universe and if it’s to be destroyed, God will do it not Mattel. So stuff it Grease Peace.
Report Post »1989kwg
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:24amWhat’s the big story? I thought Barbie broke up with Ken years ago because he was gay.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:23amI think it’s a clever campaign. this is one thing the enviros are right about. Never liked Barbie, anyway…
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
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Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:14am@Biohazard23 Too much time on their hands? I agree. Liberal groups like Greenpeace simply don’t deal in reality.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:31amReality would make them cry since they are all lacking the meaningful coping skills that people who live in the real world just develop naturally. :)
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:14amAre you kidding me?
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:39am@ Mikehail Kennady You hit the nail on the head. Let’s investigate how all these, so called, green enviromentalists live. Hey green trolls, if you were so green why do you live like you do? Throw away your computer, it’s not green and we are tired of your comments of HYPOCRACY, loser.
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:34amMatthew 5-5:44-45,Luke 6:27,Luke 6:35—Apply this to your John 3:16 sometime–ok
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:05am…Also I agree with BRASIL2520–rain forests are not the same as regular forests,that is why key-they are called rain forests,saw an entire show on the subject on Modern Marvels or History channel or both,suppose they were lying too,they do not replant in the Amazon they are indigenous people that are exploited,they do not have the oversight we have in our Country,also,never said people should live in caves & eat worms,never said I don’t use some things not environmental,I am probably in the top 10% that are though,just being vegan try that on for size–no conscience consumer,pk
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:08amEdit: no conscience consumer,ok
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:12am……Also having a healthy discussion is different than picking a fight,if you pick a fight with me you are going to loose,ok
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:13am…….We need to be good stewards of the land +GOD+ tell us that,deforestation in the amazon is destroying our natural barrier to absorb the sun,maybe Mattel could become earth friendly,no synthetic dyes,harmful plastics,and sustainable packaging,certainly there is nothing wrong with that,to bad this group needs to do this to get attention.
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:20amEdit:…….We need to be good stewards of the land +GOD+ did tell us that,
Report Post »Mikhail Kennedy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:23amMaybe you should start the ball rolling by living in a cave and eating nothing but worms and grass. Your green religion makes me sick.
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:24am……Also looks like Greenpeace is using artificial dyes on their banners and posters,not consistent with their message,hypocritical HMM,
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:46am@MIKHAIL KENNEDY: Wrong I’m not involved in a GREEN RELIGION,but I am a vegan,also I know you’d be more sick if your waters and land were more polluted than they are now,I’m sure you would have something against the Garden of Eden also,get your mad cow now,I believe it is almost departure time,hope this post helped pull the anger right out of you,let common sense rule your day.
Report Post »rayblue
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:24amGreenpee is just another bunch of wild eyed spoiled children that have a unhealthy grudge against anything they term “big corporations”. It used to be “the establishment” in the 60′s. “Military Industrial Complex” in the 50′s. But they’re the same no matter what invisible, imaginary enemy is popular at the time. Whenever I hear “Environmental”, I’m reminded of the all encompassing term “Global (you know what)”. Which has just as many fanatics supporting it. Even the EPA admits that they don’t have enough inspectors to cover every blade of grass, so they have to make misleading statements regarding pollution to keep interest up and get funding. Greenpee is a malcontent “union”
Report Post »of Julia Butterfly Hill clones.
SREGN
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:11amI think I was married to her once.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:51amDid you know she was made out of wood?
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:25amThey change completely right after the ceremony.
Report Post »rayblue
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:32pmFrom a peach to a crabapple.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:09am.
Report Post »If it‘s a greenpeace don’t eat it, you should throw it in the trash. It’s gone bad…….
GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:08amgreenpeace and others like them do more harm than good. the sierra club is responsible for 25 deaths in a mid-air collision at the grand canyon c.1985
Report Post »USAFRetired
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:40amBetween those two organizations they have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to California residents. They have forced communities/landowners through the courts NOT to remove underbrush from their lands, this leads to the uncontrolled wildfires that hit every year.
Report Post »Mustangrider
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:36amYou’re right USA, hundreds of homes hundreds perhaps thousands have burned to the ground as a result of dumb environmentalist policies about maintaining yard brush, when the trees are cut down to rebuild those houses that have burned, it could be easily said that Greenpeace, Sierra club and others like them are directly responsible for more deforestation.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:08amSounds like Greenpeace has too much time and money on its hands if they can do an ‘elaborate’ prank. If they are receiving grant money it needs to stop and they need to go find real jobs – maybe a non-existent shovel ready job.
Report Post »Morning, SNOW, hope the tea was good this morning. Heat indes 101-106 with just a little rain in spots. Hope you have a good day!
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:52amMorning Grandmaof5:
As some of the other Blazers have mentioned, the Greenpeace group has become a patsy for the support of Soros and his allies; while at one time they represented honest protest, not anymore. It is a showing of being co-opted from the inside out, the top down and manipulate all others.
Going to be around 108 today here…if the weathermans forcast is right. Not looking forward to the monsoon hitting soon save to cool it down some.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:58amGreenpeace: Go away, go away, for you have done stayed to long today.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:06amBarbie just can’t catch a break, can she? First she‘s blamed for warping young girls’ self-image, then she was a ***** out to take Ken to the cleaners in divorce court, now she’s a demon out to destroy the rainforest.
I swear, Liberals just have waaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands. Get a job, you stupid Libs! Oh, wait…. About those jobs…… You may wish to speak to your Dear Leader about that and the current state of the economy……
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:12amthis will just usher in the biodegradeable organic barbie made from recycled Greenpeace banners only at twice the price
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:12amLeave it to a corporation and we won’t have one tree left
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:15amGreen Peace is not to be trusted at all. The Org. leaders are in it for the money themselves. They are sheep in wolves clothing. They are another branch of Communism and need to disappear as do all commies and liberals.
Report Post »Mikhail Kennedy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:18amGreenpeace needs to be fined millions when they sanction their minions to pull stunts like this and Mattel and other companies need to man up and tell these Eco-terrorists where to go.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:25am@Brazil..Trees are replanted so the companies dont run out of trees you enviromental mental midget. You are dumber than a bag of hammers…
Report Post »barak hussein osama arafat brotherhood
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:28amSOROS funded, to continue the slowing and reversal of American prosperity.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:31amGotta admit though, extreme bias and faulty facts on the part of Greenpeace aside, that’s a pretty freaking awesome prank.
Reminds me of that time MIT students re-assembled the frame of a police car on top of the Great Dome at their school. Pretty epic as well.
Report Post »Ashley
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:39amGreenpeace and all of the so-called “environmentalists” need to just go away. They are helping to destroy more than they are helping. It is a form of economic terriorism. Mattel’s initial response was correct, but they “caved-in“ and started using that nasty ”sustainable” word . . . sickening. Wonder how much Soros‘ money goes into Greenpeace’s activities . . .
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:46amI going out and chop down a tree
Report Post »butler180
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:49amThey are a terrorist group with no regard for people. They think trees and animals are more valuable than human beings. They are not going to go away until we the people get a grip and stop supporting them.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:55amTo DUSTYLUV
Good morning, for the last 40 years the rain forrest has gotten smaller, when the tree’s get cut, farmers use that land to grow coffee or just leave it for cattle/sheep to graze.
Scientist’s have called the rain forrest the “lungs of the world”
Report Post »Trees are not getting replanted my friend, look it up before attacking me.
Dustyluv
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:09amBrasil…you bought the lie. there sre more trees on the planet than EVER. The rainforest is smaller yes. So why not use it to grow food? Is a tree more important than people??? Yes, to idiot lying enviromerntalmidgets..You are still a blithering idiot if you believe their BS. Wake up fool!
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:14amI thought that Ken was gay and that he just used Barbie as a “front”……I’m sure that if indeed Ken is gay, Racheal Maddow will interview him and just present his point-of-view on her show…..the sad news is that Greempeace is apparently unaware of Ken’s ownership of a Japanese whaling ship, the “Flaming Geisha-san” (roughly translated, of course)…..
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:18amTo DUSTYLUV
As a Brasilian I have followed this topic over the years, the rain forrest is a wealth of biology.
I’ll tell you what, your right just cut it all down.
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:22amCome on Blaze
Hire a proof reader.
“And then last week, activists repelled down the side of Mattel‘s headquarters…”
Repelled???? No……. Rapelled
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:27amDo these people get paid for what they do? Don’t they have jobs?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:52am@Brasil2520 Exactly at least one person here actually gets it.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:57amHope the city bills greenpeace 5 million dollars. My office across park and I watched the whole thing. I did not even know the sheriff‘s department had a massive rescue helo that it flew in and 100’s of officers standing around all day until they came down.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:57amAccording to a January 2009 report in the New York Times-and what liberal could ignore the voice of Pravda?-”For every acre of rainforest cut down each year, more than 50 acres are growing.”
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:21amBRASIL is cutting down Brasil’s trees.
Report Post »Maybe we should send in the
G.I.Joes to take out the
Decepticons.
thelonious
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:05am@Dustyluv, You need to stop having an opinion on environmental matters. You obviously have a tenuous grasp of ecology. Answer me why we need to spend tons of our tree resource to wrap up plastic dolls and ill try to figure out what you meant by saying there are now more trees than EVER.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:10amTo JROOK
I appreciate your support, I knew being the only one stepping out of the herd, I was going to take a beat down, one of us has to fight for the earth.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:42amTo USAMEDIC
Brasil has been cutting/burning down the rain forrest more for American and European corporate greed, than for food, back in the 60′s Florida had a bad “freeze” and lost large orange crops, as a safe guard towards future lost crops, American companys paid Brasilians to replace rubber/coffee with orange trees, the problem is when Florida has a very good year, the Brasilian farmers eats a bullet.
About the rubber trees, rubber before plastic, was the cash crop of the 1950′s, just like cotten was in the 1800′s, that’s why France wanted to keep Vietnam the cash crop of the rubber trees, I’m sorry to say, that 60,000 American’s, plus the “Devil’s Guard” from France, ex-SS soldier’s from Germany, died to keep Vietnam, why ? CORPORATE GREED !
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:18pmTo THELONIOUS
DUSTY wrote, ‘there are more trees on the planet than EVER” then wrote, “the rain forrest is smaller, yes”
Report Post »Contradiction ?
If we have all this wood why are we paying $2.50 for a 2 by 4 ? Plywood $30.00 a sheet !
Yup more wood than EVER
PubliusPencilman
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:37pmLet’s be honest here: none of you really have any good reason for attacking citizens who want to voice their concerns over the environment. It just shows how unthinking you folks are when you simply attack anything The Blaze puts in front of you. It seems to me you Tea Partyers would have been on the side of the East India Company if the people of Boston even hinted at destroying the Tea as an act of environmental protest.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:56pmEast India Trading Co. ya thats a good one, another example of corporate greed.
Report Post »British soldiers died for the tea trade.
Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:09pmWhy do people give this JOKE of an “organization” the time of day. POOR excuses for humanity!
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:25pmI used to work in the paper industry. APP is widely know for cheap, crappy recyled pulp.
Greenpeace, however, is an environmental TERRORIST organization. I love it when the Japaneze whaler boat ran into them and sank them! They should have left their crew for whale bait!
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:39pmJRook
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:52am
“@Brasil2520 Exactly at least one person here actually gets it.”
From my point of view… at least two people here don’t get it…
Report Post »Czar Casm
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:47pmLet’s not forget the cutting/burning down the rain forrests for the cocain and maryhoochie fields. But will these activists from greenpeace to hollywood quit the blow? Nah, let’s just blame the corporations and feel better about it.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:31pmThat Barbie … damn her!
Report Post »Lost Shaker Assault
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 12:54amI had a Barbie Doll as a child, but it was a Klaus Barbie doll.
Report Post »Clausewitz
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 3:12amBrasil2520, maybe you should talk to your socialist/communist leaders you’ve elected to find out why they still are attempting to fix their poverty problems by giving free land in the Amazonian rainforest. The “farmers” clear the land, farm for a couple of years and then move on when the soil is played out. The only thing that is left is for the land to be used for cattle, again the policy of your government.
Class envy is an ugly thing. Things a little tough in the Favela?
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:54pmIsn’t it amazing how having no sex organs makes one so wise. Grow a pair, Ken!
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