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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.
This is a great campaign, (I have signed it) and although it is not directly to help the Orangutan’s, the work of saving Continue reading The Prince’s Rainforest Project, Duchy and Palm oil
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 their own brand products and I will put a notice on this website once they have that complete.
BREAD – Waitrose Oraganic bread is the only bread I have seen in there without palm oil in it – the white and seeded oatmeal are delicious and to be honest, I do not get a bloated tummy after eating it, as opposed to other breads which can cause discomfort.
CHOCOLATE – I have found a chocolate that does not contain palm oil! It is Chokolit ‘biting back bar’ see my article on it by CLICKING HERE
FISH PRODUCTS – Sainsbury’s own brand ‘basics fish fingers’ plus all the other products in their frozen fish range
Palm-oil free foods (as recommended by the Independent website)
*Walkers Crisps; Muller Light; Lurpak; Lindt; Heinz Beans; Weetabix; Cathedral City Cheese; Heinz Soups; Danone Activia; Heinz Ketchup; Petit Filous; Dairylea; Anchor Spreads; Doritos; Bird’s Eye Frozen Veg; Hellmann’s Mayonnaise; Hula Hoops; Sensations; Yeo Valley Yogurts; Kettle Crisps; Uncle Ben’s Rice; McCain’s Chips; Snack a Jacks; Kellogg’s Cornflakes; Toblerone; Danone Actimel; John West Tinned Fish.
Continue reading What to buy without palm oil – cosmetic/food/household
 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: Continue reading Friends of the Earth (FOE)
 Orangutan Appeal logo Orangutan Appeal UK – www.orangutan-appeal.org.uk They support rehabilitation at Sepilok – I have adopted an orangutan called Ceria with them and they send a newsletter, photo and drinks mat and keep you updated. They also raise money on behalf of the Sabah Wildlife Deparment for Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, but they also support other projects in Borneo which try to improve the welfare of Orangutans, including work with COP, the Centre for Orangutan Protection. Continue reading Orangutan Appeal UK
14th May
Today, I have sent letters out to:
•UK Supermarkets
•My MP
•Government departments (Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform and the Department for Energy & Climate change and my MP)
•Companies responsible for manufacturing products with unsustainable palm oil (all 43 out of the top 100 products sold in the UK!)
•My favourite cosmetic Companies
I have commented as to unsustainable palm oil use, RSPO sustainable palm oil, the environment, consumer rights to know when palm oil is in products and more – take a look at my letters
See how you can help by sending letters HERE
And I picked up my new ‘Help the Orangutans’ t-shirts in conjunction with my website – lets hope people will take notice and help!
See all that I am doing HERE
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 Supermarkets – see details HERE
• Write to manufacturing Companies for food, domestic and cosmetic products – see details HERE Continue reading Palm oil vs Orangutans – Have your say, what to do & how to help
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 you buy? If you don’t tell them, how else will they know of your concern? They have the financial influence to insist on “Orangutan Friendly” palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia. All we ask in the IMMEDIATE FUTURE is for the above companies to set an example to the world.Those companies who do switch to “Orangutan Continue reading Supermarket contact details – around the World
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 in their ingredients list, so we have a choice whether to eat this saturated fat or not…. See my letters HERE Continue reading Product/Manufacturer contact details
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 more people caring… See my letters HERE
The Right Honourable Lord Mandelson
Secretary of State
Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
Tel: 0207 215 5000
Ed Miliband
Secretary of State for Energy & Climate change
Department for Energy & Climate change
328 Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2HH
Tel: 0207 270 3000
For contact details of your local MP, please visit:
http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alms.cfm
For details of your MEP please visit:
www.europarl.org.uk
If you do manage to get some responses, please tell me about them, or any other actions you are taking yourself – even just spreading the word to people you know – I would love to post my readers help on this site to help encourage others to follow suit – email me at info@notjustanessexgirl.com
See how to help HERE
Join my mailing list for updates on this and other matters HERE
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 minute in the country, contributing massively to climate change and driving the orangutan closer to extinction with the loss of every acre. Orangutans are so much like us, yet we humans are killing them by the thousand. To me that is genocide and it has to stop. Continue reading Lone Droscher-Nielsen: The destruction of the rainforests amounts to orangutan genocide
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