Sometimes it takes an
image to make an impact, and sometimes it takes a short video. This one did it
for me. Please read the below, it is pasted from the video’s description… You
can see the video if you scroll down a little..
Rain forests are being
destroyed for palm oil and pushing the last wild orangutans to the brink of
extinction. At Rain forest Action Network our goal is to collect 60,600 photo
petitions – that’s one person for each orangutan remaining in the wild. We’ll
deliver these photos to the Snack Food 20, the top snack food companies that
are using this Conflict Palm Oil in our food.
RAN teamed up with Free
Range Studios to produce this 2 minute video to launch The Last Stand of the
Orangutan: The Power is in Your Palm – a new national campaign exposing the US
snack food industry for putting Conflict Palm Oil into the food products we buy
every day.
After watching and
taking action at http://InYourPalm.org,
please share this video far and wide to help us achieve the greatest impact
possible.
Palm oil is found in
roughly half the products sold in grocery stores and its production is now one
of the leading causes of rainforest destruction worldwide. It is the single
biggest threat driving orangutans toward extinction and is responsible for
widespread human rights violations including displacement of Indigenous
Peoples, land conflicts with forest dependent communities, and forced and child
labor.
On top of that,
deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia, where palm oil is grown, is pushing
more carbon pollution into earth’s atmosphere each year than all the cars,
trucks, planes, trains and ships in the United States combined. In fact, due to
deforestation, Indonesia has the third largest greenhouse gas emissions behind
China and the United States.
But we can do something
about it!
The most popular and
influential snack food companies using Conflict Palm Oil, dubbed the “Snack
Food 20″ by RAN, control some of America’s most well known household brands
including Pepsi, Heinz, Hershey’s, Kraft and Smuckers. They spend millions a
year to instill brand loyalty and trust in their customers – us – and they
really care what we think. It is crucial that these companies hear from you
right now. Tell them that you will not stand for Conflict Palm Oil in your
food. Together we can convince these brands to take action and change the
destructive way Conflict Palm Oil is grown.
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