Palm Oil
Demand for palm oil, a vegetable oil, is the most significant cause of rainforest loss in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Palm oil is found in 1 in 10 supermarket products. These include:
- chocolate
- bread
- crisps
- detergents and
- lipsticks.
Friends of the Earth believes:
- Company law must be changed to minimise the environmental and social damage of UK business.
- Companies must stop buying palm oil from destructive sources immediately.
"If no action is taken we will have to explain to our children that the orang-utan became extinct, not because of a lack of knowledge, but because of corporate greed and a lack of political will."
Ian Redmond, Chairman of the Ape Alliance