The Melbourne Zoo in Australia has produced a short and powerful video on the devastation to orangutans caused by palm oil cultivation and a call to action for better labeling laws.
Palm oil is in more than 40% of the products on store shelves from food to household cleaning products.
While in North America, labeling laws require ingredients to be listed accurately, such is not the case in many other countries.
Also, many products imported to North America do not follow labeling requirements. Often palm oil will be called “vegetable oil.”
Congratulations to the Melbourne Zoo for taking the initiative.
Watch Don’t Palm us Off
and take action.
For more information:
What does palm oil have to do with orangutans?
Cruel Oil: How Palm Oil Harms Health, Rainforest and Wildlife
