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http://savethefrogs.com/newsletters/2014/2014-01-22-palm-oil.html
Save Tropical Frogs: Boycott Palm Oil
Dear SAVE THE FROGS! Supporter,
Tropical rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands around the world are rapidly being destroyed to grow oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), which produces a vegetable oil high in saturated fats, commonly known as palm oil. In recent decades, palm oil has become a common ingredient in candy, peanut butter, soap, shampoo, conditioner, hair sprays, cosmetics, cooking oil, ramen noodles and other supermarket products, as well as biofuel. Approximately 85% of the world's palm oil comes from non-certified sources that have few environmental or social safeguards.
SAVE THE FROGS! recommends that you DO NOT BUY PRODUCTS WITH PALM! Please look at the ingredient list of products you are considering buying, and if it says palm, buy another brand! Through awareness we can reduce the demand for palm oil. SAVE THE FROGS! has teamed up with Generation Awakening and we have begun writing CEO's of large companies to ask them to remove palm oil from their products. We will keep you updated as to our results and may be asking your support in sending in letters to the corporations should they be unwilling to move in a more environmentally friendly direction. Learn more about palm oil on our brand new webpage:
www.savethefrogs.com/palm
The problems with palm oil
The palm oil industry is directly responsible for:
(1) the destruction of critical wildlife habitat in some of the world's most biodiverse areas;
(2) heavy pesticide use and release of toxic chemicals as effluent from palm mills;
(3) the release of huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through the burning and clearing of carbon-rich peatlands and rainforests, contributing to global warming;
(4) erosion, which clogs streams and facilitates landslides;
(5) an increase in saturated fats in the human diet;
(6) the displacement of indigenous people;
(7) the use of child and forced labor;
(8) direct killing of wildlife by plantation owners who view animals that eat palm fruit as pests;
(9) an increase in fossil fuel use as domestic sources of vegetable oil in the west are replaced with palm sourced from the other side of the planet.
Print and post this flyer!
Please right-click to download the flyer. Then print it and post it around town, at your school or at your local supermarket or coffeeshop. You can also download the image and post it on your website or social media page linked to: http://savethefrogs.com/palm
Thanks!
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Save Tropical Frogs: Boycott Palm Oil (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jan 2014
OP
Way ahead of this. Palm Oil is as destructive to your heart as Trans-Fats/Animal Fats.
onehandle
Jan 2014
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. Way ahead of this. Palm Oil is as destructive to your heart as Trans-Fats/Animal Fats.
I've been a frog hugger for a long, long time.