EVERYONE STOP BUYING PRODUCTS THAT CONTAIN PALM OIL!

Does your shopping basket contain KitKat, Hovis, Persil or Flora? If so, you may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, where orangutans and other species face extinction as their habitat disappears.

It's an invisible ingredient, really, palm oil. You won't find it listed on your margarine, your bread, your biscuits or your KitKat. It's there though, under "vegetable oil". And its impact, 7,000 miles away, is very visible indeed.

 

The wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia and Malaysia are being chain-sawed to make way for palm-oil plantations. Thirty square miles are felled daily in a burst of habitat destruction that is taking place on a scale and speed almost unimaginable in the West.

 

When the rainforests disappear almost all of the wildlife %u2013 including the orangutans, tigers, sun bears, bearded pigs and other endangered species %u2013 and indigenous people go. In their place come palm-oil plantations stretching for mile after mile, producing cheap oil %u2013 the cheapest cooking oil in the world %u2013 for everyday food.

 

Please take care to look at the label on the back of any product you buy, its included in quite a few cleaning products and different foods like chocolate. 

If we all stick together and tell the world we are not being part of deforestation , we will make a difference, and maybe save the lives of many beautiful animals,trees and plants.

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