Hmm probably got a bit ahead of myself with the first post. For those of you who don't know, I better explain myself! I can't put it as eloquently as some of the specialised websites, so I suggest you check out http://www.palmoilaction.org.au/ for the full scoop. But here's a brief rundown.
Palm Oil is fine. Nothing wrong with it in theory. A cheap vegetable oil used in many many supermarket products from Tim Tams and rice crackers to soap and shampoo.
Problem is how it's produced.
Indonesia is the biggest producer. Unfortunately Indonesia is also the last home of many endangered species such as Orangutans, Sumatran Tigers, Rhinos and Elephants etc. etc.
In South East Asia alone, 300 soccer fields worth of rainforest are destroyed every HOUR for Palm Oil Plantations.
Orangutans will be EXTINCT in approximately 10 years if nothing is done to slow this industry.
Orangutans are 97% the same DNA as us, our close cousins and we are inadvertantly playing a part in their extinction.
The only way to slow this is to slow demand. To put pressure on companies to insist on SUSTAINABLE population.
To push our government to make it compulsory to label Palm Oil so that we know we are consuming it (at the moment it can hide under about a dozen different names, the most innocuous being "Vegetable Oil".
It's a complex issue. Just know that it's important and we can make a change if we all stick together.
It's not too late but it will be if nothing changes soon!
Take your consumer power and USE it!!!
Palm Oil is fine. Nothing wrong with it in theory. A cheap vegetable oil used in many many supermarket products from Tim Tams and rice crackers to soap and shampoo.
Problem is how it's produced.
Indonesia is the biggest producer. Unfortunately Indonesia is also the last home of many endangered species such as Orangutans, Sumatran Tigers, Rhinos and Elephants etc. etc.
In South East Asia alone, 300 soccer fields worth of rainforest are destroyed every HOUR for Palm Oil Plantations.
Orangutans will be EXTINCT in approximately 10 years if nothing is done to slow this industry.
Orangutans are 97% the same DNA as us, our close cousins and we are inadvertantly playing a part in their extinction.
The only way to slow this is to slow demand. To put pressure on companies to insist on SUSTAINABLE population.
To push our government to make it compulsory to label Palm Oil so that we know we are consuming it (at the moment it can hide under about a dozen different names, the most innocuous being "Vegetable Oil".
It's a complex issue. Just know that it's important and we can make a change if we all stick together.
It's not too late but it will be if nothing changes soon!
Take your consumer power and USE it!!!
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