Tell supermarket brands you reject RSPO greenwashing about “sustainable” palm oil
Did you know that for two decades the lie of “sustainable” palm oil has continued to prop up and greenwash further deforestation, animal cruelty and extinction, child slavery, violence, indigenous landgrabbing, health risks, fires and haze pollution? Tell brands you have had enough of the lies and deceit. Use your wallet as a weapon and join the #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife. You can contribute stories, take photos in the supermarket, share out posts with one click from this website and much more. Learn more below.
Take action! Tell global brands that you won’t stand for #palmoil #greenwashing as ALL OF IT still causes #deforestation and animal #extinction – Even the so-called “sustainable” kind! Fight back and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
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At this late stage in the #extinction crisis it is critical to demand change from brands now – We can’t wait for their #greenwashing promises like in the past – we do not have time! Here’s how to take action #Boycottpalmoil be #vegan and #Boycott4Wildlife
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Why become involved?
What if no one was around to stand up and say something regarding the RSPO’s corruption, greenwashing and lies?
Mel Lumby
What if the RSPO were able to operate without anybody pointing out their corruption injustice and destruction?
What if Eleanor wasn’t around, or Fluffy, Riley, Roger, Julie, Giuseppe, El2…or you, POD?
All of us.
We may not be in one place physically, but we can shine a light on their corrupt bullsh*t, the bullsh*t of the Indonesian government leadership.
The non caring, greedy corporations and palm oil companies.
That is what all of us do: we shine a light on that darkness.
Also, many here also help rescue animals.
The Pigoneers, all of the people who try to save cats and dogs, horses, whales, octopus. Think about how many shelter animals are saved because of people’s efforts on Twitter. It adds up!
Everybody here is amazing to me. It is the first time in my life that feels as if I belong on a team – a really great, ethical team.
Take Action in Five Ways
1. Join the #Boycott4Wildlife on social media and subscribe to stay in the loop: Share posts from this website to your own network on Twitter, Mastadon, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube using the hashtags #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife.
2. Contribute stories: Academics, conservationists, scientists, indigenous rights advocates and animal rights advocates working to expose the corruption of the palm oil industry or to save animals can contribute stories to the website.
3. 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 who use palm oil. You can also take photos of palm oil free products and congratulate brands when they go palm oil free.
4. Take to the streets: Get in touch with Palm Oil Detectives to find out more.
5. Donate: 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. Donate here
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Learn about major supermarket brands causing deforestation for palm oil, while claiming that this is “sustainable”
Colgate-Palmolive
Despite global retail giant Colgate-Palmolive forming a coalition with other brands in 2020, virtue-signalling that they will stop all deforestation, they continue to do this – destroying rainforest and releasing mega-tonnes of carbon…
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Learn why you should boycott palm oil rather than wait for “sustainable” palm oil to become a reality
10 Tactics of Sustainable Palm Oil Greenwashing
Greenwashing Tactic #1: Hidden Trade Off
When a brand makes token changes while continuing with deforestation, ecocide or human rights abuses in another part of their business – this is ‘Hidden Trade Off’
For example, Nestle talks up satellite monitoring to stop palm oil deforestation. Yet…
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Greenwashing Tactic #2: No Proof
Greenwashing Tactic 5. Palm oil companies make environmental claims without providing proof or evidence of these claims or using spurious evidence.
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Greenwashing Tactic #3: Vagueness
Claiming a brand or commodity is ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ based on broad generalisations, unclear language or vague statements Jump to section Greenwashing: Vagueness in Language Greenwashing: Vagueness in certification standards Reality: Auditing of RSPO a failure Quote: EIA: Who Watches…
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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 coffee and cocoa. Greenwashing: Fake Labels and fake certifications Ecolabels are designed to reassure consumers that…
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Greenwashing Tactic #5: Irrelevance and Deflection
Learn how lobbyists use irrelevant information and deflection to shift the conversation away from their environmental harms, e.g. “sustainable” palm oil.
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Greenwashing Tactic #6: The Lesser of Two Evils
Claiming that a brand, commodity or industry is greener than others in the same category, in order to excuse ecocide, deforestation, human rights and animal rights abuses. Jump to section Greenwashing: Lesser of Two Evils: Palm Oil Uses Less Land…
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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!
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Greenwashing Tactic 8: Design & Words
Greenwashing Tactic 8. Companies use design principles and subliminal language to signal ‘greenness’ and trigger unconscious emotional responses in consumers
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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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Greenwashing Tactic 10: Gaslighting, Harassment, Stalking and Threats
Gaslighting, harassing or stalking vocal critics of a brand, commodity or industry certification in order to silence these critics – this is greenwashing!
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Ten Tactics of ‘Sustainable’ Palm Oil Greenwashing
Learn ten marketing and PR tactics used for “sustainble” palm oil greenwashing to justify endless growth by the palm oil industry. Boycott palm oil now!
Read moreStop Nigeria’s Lawless Palm Oil Juggernaut
Palm oil production in Nigeria is a destructive and violent business. Companies like Okomu Oil Palm Plantation Plc (OOPC) are clearing forests with breathtaking speed and leaving destroyed livelihoods and human rights violations in their wake. Please support the struggle of local communities for their rights and for nature.
Write to the President of Nigeria and tell him the killing of endangered species must stop now!
To: the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari; Governor Godwin Obaseki
“OOPC is destroying Nigeria’s remaining forests, as well as grabbing the land and violating the rights of thousands. Please protect nature and local communities.”
PepsiCo & Doritos: It’s crunch time to adopt a zero deforestation policy!
That sound when you bite down on Doritos? That’s the sound of rainforests being “crunched” to make way for massive palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia. Workers, and even children, are trapped in modern slavery on the plantations. Forests and peatlands are burned to the ground, driving endangered species like orangutans to extinction and polluting the Earth’s atmosphere with gigatons of greenhouse gases — all to make palm oil.
Doritos’ parent company, PepsiCo, could put a stop to the deforestation. But instead of leading the charge, PepsiCo is hanging back, issuing middling policies with gaps so big a parade of endangered pygmy elephants could fit through them.
Tell Doritos, it’s crunch time to adopt a global, time-bound, responsible palm oil policy
Adopt an Animal
When you adopt an endangered animal, your money helps organisations that are on the forefront of the battle to save these species from extinction.
Adopt a Gorilla
Support the animals threatened in the Congo
Virunga National Park – Congo
Virunga National Park’s heroic rangers put their lives on the line, sometimes they are even murdered. All to protect for the small number of gorillas left in the wild. Find out more about their work.
As oil-palm plantations in Asia reach capacity, Africa is becoming the new frontier for this crop. Unfortunately, such areas coincide with good Gorilla habitat: 73.8% of the Western Lowland Gorilla’s range is considered suitable for oil palm (Wich et al. 2014).
There are only around 1,063 mountain gorillas left in the wild. Habitat loss is emerging as a major threat to Western Gorillas.
Diseases and poaching and COVID 19 also pose a threat.(IUCN Red List)
Adopt a Tree Kangaroo
Support the animals threatened in Papua New Guinea
The Tenkile (a species of Tree Kangaroo) is critically endangered in Papua New Guinea as a result of palm oil plantations. See the full list of animals endangered in Papua New Guinea. The Tenkile Conservation Alliance protect the entire Torricelli Mountain Range which includes all biodiversity including 50% of PNG’s bird species, 65% of PNG’s frog and reptile species and 40% of PNG’s mammal species.
The Tenkile Conservation Alliance
The Tenkile Conservation Alliance works by engaging 13,000 local people from 50 villages who own the Torricelli Mountain Range. This strategy is aims to prevent communities from choosing large scale exploitative activities such as logging and mining in the palm oil industry. Donate now or find out more about their work.
Adopt an Orangutan
There are many places you can adopt an Orangutan, and many Not for Profits working in the conservation space in Malaysia and Borneo. However, many NGOs and charities promote the idea of palm oil being “sustainable” even though the RSPO has not managed to stop deforestation in the 19 years it has been in action – not for ONE of its members in the palm oil supply chain, an absolutely disgraceful result. So – if you want to support an orangutan charity that will cut through the BS and tell the truth about deforestation, instead of supporting greenwashing you should support OrangutanTOP or Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) and avoid supporting BOS because although BOS do superb work, they are also supporting the greenwashing of the palm oil industry, and its continued destruction of rainforests, rather than being critical of it.
Orangutan Foundation International (OFI)
Orangutan Foundation International and its founder Dr Birute Mary Galdikas are the foremost orangutan experts in the world. Dr Birute has dedicated her entire life towards looking after orangutans in the field. She has been rescuing and rehabilitating orangutans for over 50 years. Dr Birute has seen first-hand the devastation of palm oil on these beautiful creatures and she does not mince words with how she describes the palm oil industry.
She is a vocal critic of the RSPO on social media and regularly stands her ground and speaks strongly against the palm oil industry’s greenwashing, corruption and lies. Often, as a result of this, she faces absolutely vicious trolling, harassment, gaslighting and abuse from lobbyists in the palm oil industry such as Orangutan Land Trust. Orangutan Foundation International along with many other NGOs such as Greenpeace, EIA, Global Witness and Friends of the Earth believe that the RSPO is a greenwashing con.
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