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The Prince’s Rainforest Project, Duchy and Palm oil

The Prince’s Rainforest Project, Duchy and Palm oil

If any of you saw Jonathan Ross last night, then you would have seen the speech made by Vivienne Westwood about the rainforests. She promoted the website and campaign of Prince Charles – The Princes Rainforest Project.  She urged us to go onto his website and sign the petition.

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What to buy without palm oil – cosmetic/food/household

What to buy – products NOT using palm oil or using sustainable oil

FOODS

Waitrose and the Co-operative (co-op) now have palm oil listed in the ingredients of their own brand products, which will give you the opportunity to choose products without palm oil if you wish.  Sainsburys are in the process of re-listing the ingredients of [...]

Friends of the Earth (FOE)

FOE logo

Friends of the Earth www.foe.co.uk  campaign for better environments for everyone – one of their campaigns is regarding biofuels created with palm oil – you can see two of their campaign outlines here:

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Palm oil vs Orangutans – Have your say, what to do & how to help

What to do and how to help

Helping with the unsustainable palm oil plantation problems is easy – write to people. The more of us that show our feelings and desires to make a change, the more impact it will have…..

• Write to the Government, your MP or MEP – see details HERE
• Write to the [...]

Supermarket contact details – around the World

Supermarket contact details – around the World

These are some of the people who could easily put an end to most of the forest destruction and killing of orangutans by the palm oil industry.

Why not spend a few minutes expressing in an email to these companies your wish for “Orangutan Friendly” palm oil in the products [...]

Product/Manufacturer contact details

Product/Manufacturer contact details – for all products out of UK top 100 using palm oil in these products.  Remember, we are not looking for them to stop using palm oil, but to ensure that their supplies in the future are going to be from sustainable plantations (Orangutan friendly) and that they will show palm oil [...]

Inform Government/MP's/MEP's your views about palm oil

Government/MP/MEP contacts

Please take time out to  inform the Government as well as your local MP and MEP of your concerns about palm oil plantations causing the destruction of rainforests and the resulting loss of wildlife.  This is an issue that has been addressed and is being addressed, but it is good for them to see [...]

Lone Droscher-Nielsen: The destruction of the rainforests amounts to orangutan genocide

My biggest wish is that people in the western world could understand what is happening here in Borneo, and how the demand for palm oil is devastating the rainforests and contributing to the extinction of the orangutan. Forests are being destroyed at the rate of an area roughly the size of two football fields every [...]

How Britons fuel destruction of the rainforest

How Britons fuel destruction of the rainforest
British consumers are fuelling the rising demand for palm oil, speeding up the destruction of rainforests and killing off orangutans
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
A cooking oil that is driving the destruction of the rainforests, displacing native people and threatening the survival of the orangutan is present in dozens [...]

Top 100 products, UK – which contain palm oil?

Top 100 products, UK – which contain palm oil?

Rank; Brand; Manfacturer; Sales; Palm oil?
1. Coke, Coca-Cola, £969m, NO
2. Warburtons, Warburtons, £709m, YES

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