Palm Oil: Ethical companies don’t hide their ingredients

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 [...]

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Simmering in the Soil

A quote from an article by author Edward Hoagland, age 76, published in Harper’s Magazine, March 2009

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Vegan cheese is just as inhumane as dairy cheese

A fabulous guest post from co-blogger Nothoney
That’s right, vegans. If you’re going ga-ga over the new vegan cheeses such as Teese and Daiya, you’re just as guilty of animal cruelty as if you were eating blocks of dairy cow cheese. Not to mention the negative effects on human health …
Vegan cheeses are mostly oil, which [...]

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Report on the “Heroes and Charlatans” in the World of Soy

Here is a fascinating and important report from The Cornucopia Institute on the natural and organic soy foods industry.
I had stopped drinking Silk long ago mainly due to palm oil being used in both their creamer and soy beverages plus had heard rumblings about associations with factory farm organic dairy.
Silk claims on its site it [...]

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What does palm oil have to do with orangutans?

As I’ve posted before, a great deal. It also seems fitting to post information on palm oil’s killing path as often as possible as I still frequently meet up with people including animal activists who haven’t heard anything about this issue.
“The rate of loss of orangutans has never been greater than [...]

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