Palm Oil
Its been ages since I last updated this blog but I thought I’d take a little bit of a time out to update the site about a topic I feel quite passionate about.
Recently on Twitter I noticed a link floating about to a petition regarding Palm Oil, now I really don’t like Palm Oil for a number of reasons. To keep my ranting down to a bare minimum its used in so many products but it remains unlabelled, everything from soap to bread and butter.
The EU report on the Oil labelled it as unsuitable for human consumption since they didn’t know what the long term effects of eating it might be but it does have a high saturated fat content. Companies are still using it largely as a bulking agent in order to maximise profits. The problem is that as consumers we should have the right to choose to buy it or not and for all ingredients to be listed on the packet.
There’s an awful lot of talk about sustainable Palm Oil but why should it be in there at all? Especially not when we’re also destroying natural habitats of Elephants, Rhino and Orangutan in order to procure it.
