Australian Comedians Join Forces with Tigers to say “Don’t Palm Us Off”!
Claire Hooper (Network Ten’s Good News Week), Josh Thomas (Network Ten’s Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation) and Tom Ballard (triple j’s Tom & Alex) joined forces with Melbourne Zoo’s Tigers Ramalon and Binjai to raise awareness about the impact of palm oil on Sumatran Tiger habitat. If you want to join them visit zoo.org.au/palmoil and tell us you want palm oil labeled. It’s your choice!
Don’t Palm Us Off
Let FSANZ know you have the right to choose whether your food purchases push Orangutans towards extinction. Tell FSANZ Don’t Palm us Off!
SIGN THE PETITION – TELL FSANZ YOU WANT THE CHOICE!
The food we are buying could be pushing Orangutans to extinction.
Palm oil is found in about 40 percent of the food products on our shelves and its rampant cultivation is destroying the Orangutan’s habitat at an alarming rate. The United Nations has warned that Orangutans could be extinct within a generation if we don’t act quickly.
The simple fact is that you can’t tell whether you are contributing to this crisis because palm oil is not labelled on most food products. Most of the palm oil that ends up in our food is unsustainably harvested. In fact, only eight percent of the global supply of palm oil comes from sustainable RSPO certified sources. A sustainable palm oil industry that does not destroy anymore virgin rainforest is a reality. The industry just needs to use land that has already been cleared. But right now there isn’t the demand for palm oil that is produced this way. Once palm oil is labelled, consumers can actually drive a market for proper certified sustainable palm oil because they can demand it of manufacturers (as we’ve seen with Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance products). You have a right to know whether the products you buy contain palm oil. However without legislation change, palm oil will remain unlabelled and you just won’t know if the food products you are buying are pushing orangutans to extinction.
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