Palm oil in our food is causing huge areas of forrest to be cut down, will you stop buying these products?

I see in Borneo huge areas of forrest are being cut down to grow plantations that produced Palm Oil. As i look on the ingreedients and see it is in many of many products the suppermarkets i wonder will people stop buying this as it's production is causing so much devistation around the world and it is bad for our health anyway. Will people reading this start boycotting such products, so we dont cause exstinction to many of the speciese that used to live in areas where such products are being dished out from and will be dished out from if we continue to buy.Palm oil in our food is causing huge areas of forrest to be cut down, will you stop buying these products?
I already do but as well as doing that I complain to the supermarket about it and I'm doing voluntary work next year with Orangs and helping re-plant trees that have been devastated.Palm oil in our food is causing huge areas of forrest to be cut down, will you stop buying these products?
palm oil has been here and around, but now there is a worldwide trend -sharp increase, replacing other crops (that will be lacking soon) and pristine forests by oil palms. bad for locals, wildlife. we SHOULD stop this by sending a message that the HUGE demand for the oil is not so huge. Report Abuse

I'll be more careful when i go shopping from now on. i've never heard of it before
Yes, i always check for palm oil in the ingredients and dont buy the product if it is there. I have also complained to Waitrose (my local Supermarket) about the amount of products they sell containing palm oil (so many things!).





Some companies (Nairns in particular) are only using palm oil that is sustainably produced.
OK, I'll check in future.
ok i will try and remember to check!





what kinds of food is it in!!
I will look and boycott the items.
I thought the problem was that it was used for biofuels, one of the problems of demonizing oil.
Very often it is only listed as vegetable oil, in the ingredients bit.
Yes What kind of product should we be looking for?
Don't appeal to the ecologists that will only catch you a fragment of the possible people you should reach.


Palm oil is really, really bad for our health! It is a killer!!!


That is the idea that you need to be selling to people. The byproduct would be no more palm oil plantations!


I suggest you check it out on the Net and ask another question
yes I will stop buying them immediately.
It might be worth thinking about what happens to the regions that are currently palm oil plantations should you succeed in getting rid of palm oil in North American food products.





If those areas would be returned to pristine, untouched forest, it might be worth while. However, in many cases, those palm oil plantations are the only livelihood those people have. If the plantations are shut down, they may have burn down the whole forest region to grow low quality subsistence crops and livestock in order to feed their families. So getting rid of the palm plantations could actually be worse for the region than it is now.





I'm not saying that's what will happen, but it's an example of what might happen. Few issues are black and white, especially when you're dealing with the environment. What looks like it should be a good idea can end up causing far more environmental damage than the problem it was trying to solve. Simply boycotting palm oil may not be the solution to this problem.
Please ask a question, do not ';ask'; for people to change their behavior. The purpose of this forum is not to give you a place to plead with people to support your cause.





We all have causes. Find the proper forum, not here.
I went to Borneo years ago and they told us that it was a problem then, so I'm surprised it is still such an issue. I think, with anything, it depends what products people will have to give up but I like your thinking honey
Yeah, that is really important. I'll get right on that, right after I solve the Arab - Israel situation, global warming, aids and a few other minor matters. Then I'll convince those evil palm oil dealers to produce cocaine and heroin instead. They can make the same amount of money while using far less land. Everybody wins! The growers get more money, fewer trees are cut and drug prices fall!
It is good to know that you care about our world, and you would like to do something about it, but most agriculture impacts on the environment in some way. Many rainforest areas in the far east are also being affected to grow soy beans - just one of the many reasons I refuse to eat tofu. In reality, even locally grown vegetables are growing on land that was probably once a forest.





However, as that is long gone, and our landscape has now adapted, consider buying local wholefoods where ever possible. they will not contain additives such as oils, colouring, flavourings and salt. They also help provide local jobs, and cut down on food miles.