Nestle , Ferrero, Unilever : Stop destroying Forests for Palm Oil
Nestle , Ferrero, Unilever : Stop destroying Forests for Palm Oil
Warum ist diese Petition wichtig?
Palm Oil is everywhere –Palm Oil can be foud in in Chocolate, Cookies, Biscuits, Cereals, frozen Pizza,Margerine, Makeup, Body cream, Cosmetics, Shampoo, cleaning products and fuels.
Our Supermarkets are full of products linked to deforestation.
Theses Comapnies use Palm Oil: Food Giant Mondelez, Hersheys, Oreo, Knorr, Nestle, Danone, Ferrero, Unilever, General Mills, Cogate Palmolive, Kraft, kellogg´s, L´oreal, Ritz, Cadbury.
It's a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption.
Deforestation kills Orangutans and other animals. Palm Oil can cause Cancer.
Borneo and Sumatra are the only two countries home to endangered orangutans. Unfortunately, these intelligent and human-like animals may be gone forever because of the palm oil industry.
Palm oil plantations have taken over 30 million acres of rain forests, destroying orangutans’ homes and causing catastrophic changes to the environment.
Please watch the wonderful Video: https://youtu.be/TQQXstNh45g
Please Do not buy products that contain Palm Oil:
READ LABELS WHEN YOU SHOP , Dont buy products that contain Palm Oil
Different Palm Oil Names:
Palm Kernel Oil
Palm Oil
Palmöl
Palm Kernel Stearin
Partially hydrogenated Palm Oil
Fractionated Palm Oil
Organic Palm Kernel Oil
Palmitate
Palmate
Sodium Laureth Sulphate
Sodium Lauryl
Sodium dodecyl Sulphate
Elaeis Guineensis
Glyceryl Stearate
Stearic Acid (Stearic Acid;Capric Triglyceride;Capryl Glucoside;Caprylic Acid; Caprylic Triglyceride;Caprylyl Glucoside;Caprylyl Glykol;Cetearyl Alcohol
;Cetearyl Glucoside
Ceteth
Cetyl Acetate
Cetyl Alcohol
Cetyl Lactate
Cetyl Palmitate )
Chemicals which contain palm oil:
Steareth -2
Steareth -20
Sodium Lauryl Sulphate
Sodium lauryl sulfoacetate (coconut and/or palm)
Hydrated palm glycerides
Sodium isostearoyl lactylaye (derived from vegetable stearic acid)
Cetyl palmitate
octyl palmitate
Please share this information with your family and friends and encourage them to rethink their consumption habits. It's in our hands!
Please sign and share the Petition ! Thank you so much!
What you can do:
Please send Emails : Urge them to stop destroying Forests and killing Orangutans for PalmOil:
Emailadresses: presse@mdlz.com, Unilever.Service@unilever.com,poststelle@bmu.bund.de,
poststelle@bmel.bund.de, kah@cdu.de,parteivorstand@spd.de,info@v-partei.de,post@staedtetag.de,info@gruene.de ,bundesgeschaeftsstelle@die-linke.de,
ec-president-vdl@ec.europa..eu,chaibf@who.int,dujarric@un.org,
boris.johnson.mp@parliament.uk,contact@en-marche.fr
Sample Letter:
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Palm Oil is everywhere – in our Foods,Chocolate, Cereals, Pizza, Cosmetics, Shampoo, cleaning products and fuels.
It's a source of huge profits for multinational corporations, while at the same time destroying the livelihoods of smallholders. Displacement of indigenous peoples, deforestation and loss of biodiversity are all consequences of our palm oil consumption.
Deforestation kills Orangutans and other animals. Palm Oil can cause Cancer.
Borneo and Sumatra are the only two countries home to endangered orangutans. Unfortunately, these intelligent and human-like animals may be gone forever because of the palm oil industry.
Palm oil plantations have taken over 30 million acres of rain forests, destroying orangutans’ homes and causing catastrophic changes to the environment.
I urge you to act now and stop destroying rainforest and killing Orangutans for Palm Oil. There is no Planet B!
Sincerely,
What you can do:
The solution – a revolution on our dinner tables and in our fuel tanks
Only 70,000 orangutans still roam the forests of Southeast Asia, yet the EU's biofuels policy is pushing them to the brink of extinction. Every new plantation on Borneo is destroying a further piece of their habitat. Stepping up the pressure on policymakers is a must if we want to save our tree-dwelling kin. Apart from that, however, there is still a lot we can do in day-to-day life.
Follow these simple tips to recognize, avoid and combat palm oil:
-Enjoy a home-cooked meal: Use your imagination: why not try almond-coconut-pear biscuits? Or pizza with potato and rosemary? A meal cooked from fresh ingredients beats processed foods containing palm oil every time. Oils such as sunflower, olive, rapeseed or flaxseed are ideal for cooking and baking.
-Read labels: As of December 2014, labeling regulations in the EU require food products to clearly indicate that they contain palm oil. However, in the case of non-food items such as cosmetics and cleaning products, a wide range of chemical names may still be used to hide the use of palm oil. A quick check of your favorite search engine will turn up palm oil-free alternatives, however.
-Remember that the customer is king: Ask your retailers for palm oil-free products. Write product manufacturers and ask them why they aren't using domestic oils. Companies can be quite sensitive to issues that give their products a bad name, so inquiring with sales staff and contacting manufacturers can make a real difference. Public pressure and increased awareness of the problem have already prompted some producers to stop using palm oil.
-Sign petitions and write your elected representatives: Online campaigns put pressure on policymakers responsible for biofuels and palm oil imports. Have you already signed all of Rainforest Rescue's petitions?
-Speak out: Protest marches and creative action on the street raise public and media awareness of the issue, which in turn steps up the pressure on policymakers.
Leave your car at home: Whenever you can, walk, ride a bicycle or use public transport.
-Be informed and inform others: Big Business and governments would like us to believe that biofuels are good for the climate and that oil palm plantations are sustainable. Spread the word – share this information with your family and friends and encourage them to rethink their consumption habits. It's in our hands!
Background:
At 66 million tons annually, palm oil is the most commonly produced vegetable oil. Its low world market price and properties that lend themselves to processed foods have led the food industry to use it in half of all supermarket products. Palm oil can be found in frozen pizzas, biscuits and margarine, as well as body creams, soaps, makeup, candles and detergents.
Few people realize that almost half of the palm oil imported into the EU is used as biofuel. Since 2009, the mandatory blending of biofuels into motor vehicle fuels has been a major cause of deforestation.
Oil palm plantations currently cover more than 27 million hectares of the Earth's surface. Forests and human settlements have been destroyed and replaced by "green deserts" containing virtually no biodiversity on an area the size of New Zealand.
The warm, humid climate of the tropics offers perfect growth conditions for oil palms. Day after day, huge tracts of rainforest in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa are being bulldozed or torched to make room for more plantations, releasing vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. As a consequence, Indonesia – the world's largest producer of palm oil – temporarily surpassed the United States in terms of greenhouse gas emissions in 2015. With their CO2 and methane emissions, palm oil-based biofuels actually have three times the climate impact of traditional fossil fuels.
Palm oil is not only bad for the climate: As their forest habitat is cleared, endangered species such as the orangutan, Borneo elephant and Sumatran tiger are being pushed closer to extinction. Smallholders and indigenous people who have inhabited and protected the forest for generations are often brutally driven from their land. In Indonesia, more than 700 land conflicts are related to the palm oil industry. Human rights violations are everyday occurrences, even on supposedly "sustainable" and "organic" plantations.
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil#start
http://www.umweltblick.de/index.php/palmoel/deklarationen-von-palmoel/95-deklarationen-von-palmoel
