The reality of these chocolate and confectionery brands is the spookiest story you will ever hear this Halloween
Learn how to boycott with handy lists for the US, Uk and Australia.
Countless reports show that popular lollies, candies and chocolate brands in Australia, the United States of America and United Kingdom such as Hersheys, Nestle, Mondelez (Cadbury), Ferrero and Mars are linked to palm oil deforestation, the killing of endangered species, human rights abuses, the slavery and death of children.
This is happening very close-by – at Australia’s closest Pacific neighbour, Papua New Guinea. In the US’s closest neighbours in Central and South America and in Africa. These same atrocities are baked into the biggest selling halloween treats.
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“One palm oil firm, Rimbunan Hijau, [Papua New Guinea] negligently ignored repeated and avoidable worker deaths and injuries on palm oil plantations, with at least 11 workers and the child of one worker losing their lives over an eight-year period.
“Tainted palm oil from Papua New Guinea plantations was sold to household name brands, all of them RSPO members including Kellogg’s, Nestlé, Colgate, Danone, Hershey’s and PZ Cussons and Reckitt Benckiser”
References
Anti-Corporate Activism and Collusion: The Contentious Politics of Palm Oil Expansion in Indonesia, (2022). Ward Berenschot, et. al., Geoforum, Volume 131, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.002
Best-Rated Chocolate Bars in Australia, Canstar Blue Survey 2022
Commodifying sustainability: Development, nature and politics in the palm oil industry (2019) World Development
Volume 121, September 2019, Pages 218-228
Europe Chocolate Market: growth, trends, COVID-19 impact and forecasts (2022- 2027)
Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia, (2018), Kimberly M. Carlson, Robert Heilmayr, Holly K. Gibbs, Praveen Noojipady et al. PNAS January 2, 2018 115 (1) 121-126.
Infographic: America’s Favorite Halloween Candy by State (2019) AdWeek
Is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil? Satellite images show protected rainforest on fire (2021) Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
Nestlé identified over 1,000 cases of deforestation per day in palm oil areas (2020) SwissInfo.
RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector, (2018), Friends of the Earth International.
Sustainable palm oil may not be so sustainable, (2018) , Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Jingjing Liang, Alena Velichevskaya, Mo Zhou, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 652, 2019, Pages 48-51, ISSN 0048-9697.
Sustainable Palm Oil? Who Knows, Thanks to Derelict Auditors, (2015), Kirby, David, Take Part.
The False Promise of Certification, (2018) Changing Markets.
The impact of oil palm on rural livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes in Latin America, Journal of Rural Studies (2021) A. Castellanos-Navarrete, F. de Castro, P. Pacheco, Volume 81, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.10.047.
The palm oil industry and noncommunicable diseases, (2019), Sowmya Kadandale, a Robert Martenb & Richard Smith. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Bulletin 2019;97:118–128|.
The true price of palm oil (2021) Global Witness
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