What do I need to know?

  • 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.
  • 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.

 What can you do?

  • Write to your local politicians Ask them what they are doing to help get labelling mandatory. 
  • Write to the manufacturers of your favourite foods. Find out if they are using palm oil and, if so, how and where they source it.

 The Don't Palm Us Off campaign video and send this page link to your friends!

 

Watch the campaign video on YouTube

 


For further information

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Rachel Lowry
Community Conservation Manager, Zoos Victoria
Ph: (03) 9285 9377
Mob: 0408 130 379
Fax: (03) 9285 9340
E: palmoil@zoo.org.au

Don't Palm us off