Save Tropical Frogs: Boycott Palm Oil

[Omaha Steve]

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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!

[roody]

1. Very important!

[FrodosPet]

6. Soy is another looming monster

http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/soy/impacts/

As soybean agriculture sweeps across South America and elsewhere, fragile ecosystems such as rainforests and savannahs are feeling the strain, as are species like the jaguar and giant anteater.

In some cases, smallholders growing crops for subsistence have been displaced by the expansion of soybean plantations.

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From biodiverse areas to monocultures

Conversion of High Conservation Value Areas and other critical habitats for soybean cultivation is unacceptable as it threatens biodiversity, endangered species and the livelihoods of local people.
The climate connection

The expansion of soybean plantations into forests also contributes to climate change. Deforestation is responsible for about 15% of all the global greenhouse gas emissions caused by people.

Conversion of forests to soy plantations in the Amazon particularly threatens the climate. The Amazon’s forests contain 90-140 billion tonnes of carbon—that’s 9-14 years of current global, annual, human-induced carbon emissions.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. I wish palm oil plantations

got greater scrutiny and awareness by the media. They are a great evil.

Also palm oil is now in Everything processed that we eat.

[progressoid]

3. And things we don't eat

H2ocean (an after care product for tattoos)
organic 'natural soaps'
Dove lotions and soaps
Dial lotions and soaps
Paradise Gold -cocoa butter lotion
Aveeno Daily Moisturizers
Eucerin Original Moisturizers
Gold Bond Ultimate’s Line of Lotions
Nivea Original
Curel
Oil of Olay
Jergen's
Palmer's
Vaseline
Walgreens Products
Pearl Probiotics
Cetaphile

[hunter]

4. Orangutans too...

...

http://www.orangutan.org.au/palm-oil

[FrodosPet]

5. Beans and rice is all we need

Screw all that packaged commercial consumerist crap!

Meat is bad for you. Wheat is bad for you. Corn and soy are bad for you.

Remember: You never hear about environmental damage from bean or rice farming. They are natural, and grow with minimal effect on the natural world.