Easter is almost upon us and that means chocolate eggs and indulgence. Used as an emulsifier in chocolate, palm oil is what gives cheap chocolate a disgusting soapy and chalky flavour. It is preferred by mass producers because it is cheap. However its environmental and social cost is enormous.
Palm oil is linked to death, ecocide, deforestation and destruction. So this Easter, make sure you look out for palm oil free brands and actively avoid dirty palm oil. “Sustainable” palm oil is a complete lie. RSPO members promoting themselves as being eco-friendly are still causing deforestation and human rights abuses for “sustainable” palm oil.
Below you can learn more about the tactics of palm oil greenwashing regularly employed to fool consumers.
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Palm Oil Free Chocolate and Confectionery
Bon Appetit and happy Easter!
Liberation Foods: chocolate, spreads, nuts.
Raw Gorilla: Cereals, snacks, chocolate
True Gum: chewing gum, mints, sweets.
How do I know if chocolate I’m buying has palm oil in it?
Sometimes it’s deceptively difficult to find palm oil on chocolate packaging. It could be listed as one of 1,000’s different chemical names.
If you are ever in doubt look for the prefixes:
- LAUR
- STEAR
- GYLC
- PALM
in the ingredients list on packaging – this is most likely palm oil. Another tip is to shop for locally produced chocolate and vegan chocolate (if you happen to be vegan).
Which chocolate brands cause deforestation for palm oil?
In short, all of the major chocolate brands cause deforestation for palm oil. This includes (but is not limited to):
- Hersheys
Cadbury - Mondelez
- Nestle
- Allens
- Quality Street
- Ferrero
- Kinder
- Milka
- Ritter Sport
- Cargill
- Lindt
- Storck
- Mars
- Starbucks
Mighty Earth’s 2023 Chocolate Scorecard
The attached report is created each year by Mighty Earth and strives to call to account chocolate (and other food) manufacturers and retailers. Make sure that you cross-reference whether or not these brands are using palm oil. Most of them do and you can read about their ongoing palm oil ecocide here.
Greenwashing Tactic #4: Fake Labels
Claiming a brand or commodity is green based on unreliable, ineffective endorsements or eco-labels such as the RSPO, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or FairTrade…
Greenwashing Tactic #7: Lying
Greenwashing lies are falsifying support from authorities to back up claims or using spurious research data to back up the greenwashing, boycott palm oil!…
Greenwashing Tactic 9: Partnerships, Sponsorships and Research Funding
Greenwashing Tactic 9. Corporations use NGOs, Zoo partnerships, sponsorships, and research funding to give an industry or brand a ‘green image.
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Palm oil plantations are bad for wildlife great and small: study
#Palmoil plantations have an overall negative impact on #biodiversity, according to research released this week. The #study, published in Nature Communications, found palm oil…
Yes, but Zoos/NGOs I think are trustworthy like Chester Zoo, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and WWF support the RSPO and sustainable palm oil?
A network of Zoos and CONservation NGOS such as Orangutan Land Trust, Orangutan SOS, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and Chester Zoo (a full list here) are either RSPO members themselves or they are funded by RSPO members (global retailers or palm oil companies) in exchange for promoting sustainable palm oil. This is a formal commercial agreement that they have.
Apps pushing fake palm oil sustainability on behalf of brands
The @ImpactScoreApp and @CheyenneMtnZoo apps (created in association with the RSPO) falsely recommend global chocolate brands that are supposedly “sustainable”. Yet countless reports by watchdogs like Global Witness, Greenpeace, AP, Mighty Earth, Friends of the Earth, Environmental Investigation Agency show this to be a greenwashing lie. ALL of these household brands are still causing human rights abuses, ecocide and deforestation for palm oil.
Brands listed as using “sustainable” palm oil on the Impact Score App and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo feature in a 2021 Global Witness report into death and slavery for palm oil in Papua..
Global Witness October 2021 Report: Violence and death for palm oil connected to household supermarket brands (RSPO members)
“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”
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Thanks so much Ned for the share hope you are having a great weekend
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