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Learn how to boycott palm oil with handy lists of products for the US, Uk and Australia. The reality of these chocolate and confectionery brands is the spookiest story you will ever hear this Halloween. Fortunately, there are plenty of palm oil free candy and chocolate brands that you can buy instead. Read on to discover how to avoid palm oil this Halloween.
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Discover the spookiest story of #Halloween 🎃👻💀: “sustainable” #palmoil is not sustainable! Major brands continue to buy #palmoil infused with #ecocide. Make sure you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🩸🔥🚜⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife this Halloween @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-517
What’s #Halloween’s Spookiest Secret? 👻🎃 A glass and a half of #palmoil #deforestation in every candy by @Nestle @Hersheys @MarsGlobal @Ferrero_EU @CadburyAU Make sure you #Boycottpalmoil this Halloween! 🌴🪔🤮💀🧐❌ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-517
Key Takeaways
- This Halloween, many popular candies contain palm oil, which contributes to deforestation and the extinction of wildlife.
- Consumers can learn to avoid palm oil this Halloween and instead find palm oil-free alternatives for chocolate, lollies and candy in US, UK, and Australia
- Boycotting brands like Nestlé, Hershey’s, Ferrero, Mondelez, Hersheys and Mars helps combat ecocide associated with palm oil production.
- Helpful lists on this website highlight how to avoid palm oil in Halloween treats, encouraging ethical choices.
- The article emphasises the importance of supporting wildlife by participating in the #BoycottPalmOil movement.
Table of contents
- Learn how to boycott palm oil this Halloween in America, the UK and Australia
- Enjoy halloween by knowing how to boycott palm oil
- Take action in five ways!
- Global Witness October 2021 Report: Violence and death for palm oil connected to household supermarket brands (RSPO members)
- References
- Contribute to my Ko-Fi
- Palm Oil Detectives is 100% self-funded
Learn how to boycott palm oil this Halloween in America, the UK and Australia
American edition: How to avoid palm oil this Halloween in the USA
Americans lose their mind for Reeces Pieces, Skittles, Hershey’s Kisses and Starburst every Halloween. Yet these brands are sending elephants extinct! #BoycottPalmOil instead!
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British edition: How to boycott palm oil this Halloween in the UK
The most popular British Halloween treats include Maltesers, Galaxy Bars and Kitkats. All of these products contain palm oil that is driving orangutans to extinction. #Boycott4Wildlife!
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Australian edition: How to avoid palm oil this Halloween in Australia
In Australia, high demand Halloween treats include Fry’s Turkish Delight, Mars, Flake and Cherry Ripe. Buying these comes at an enormous cost to forest animals. #BoycottPalmoil!
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Enjoy halloween by knowing how to boycott palm oil
Why boycott palm oil this Halloween?
Palm oil is one of the most destructive commodities on earth. Our World in Data research found that monocultures like soy and palm oil, along with meat agriculture – taken together are responsible for two thirds of ALL deforestation on the planet. Furthermore, what is fed to cows and pigs that people eat or fed to dairy animals? Well it’s palm oil and soy of course! So being vegan and boycotting palm oil is best thing you could possibly do for forests and forest animals. Fortunately there’s plenty of palm oil free chocolate and candy brands on this website. Fight for animals this Halloween and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife.
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.
Learn how to have a palm oil free Halloween below and #Boycott4Wildlife!
Take action in five ways!
- 1. Join the #Boycott4Wildlife on social media and subscribe to stay in the loop:
Use the one-click buttons to share written posts from this website or videos from Youtube to your own network and connect with Palm Oil Detectives on BlueSky, Twitter, Mastodon, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook using the hashtags #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife.
- Contribute stories:
Academics, conservationists, scientists, indigenous rights advocates and animal rights advocates working to expose the corruption of the palm oil industry can contribute stories or get in touch here.
- Supermarket sleuthing:
Next time you’re in the supermarket, take photos of products containing palm oil. Share these to social media along with the hashtags to call out the greenwashing and ecocide of the brands using palm oil. You can also take photos of palm oil free products and congratulate brands when they go palm oil free. Find palm oil free brands here
- Donate to boost the #Boycott4Wildlife campaign
Make a one-off or monthly donation to Palm Oil Detectives as a way of saying thank you and to help pay for ongoing running costs of the website and social media campaigns that help animals, landscapes and people. Donate here
https://ko-fi.com/palmoildetectives - Download the premium version of the Yuka app
Yuka is an independent (not industry-funded) mobile app for Android and Apple. The paid version is $10 USD per year and is well worth the money! Simply scan all supermarket items to find out if they contain palm oil along with countless other nasty highly processed and unhealthy ingredients. You can scan cosmetic and personal care items as well as food. Set up alerts for palm oil to be flagged so you can disregard the items. Download the app
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Read moreGlobal 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”
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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