The Palm Oil List - What's in YOUR shopping trolley?

Do you know whether you are buying palm oil? Have a look at the ingredients on your products. If any of the below are listed, it is most probably palm oil - we are all contributing to the destruction of the rain forest, the orangutan and many other species by buying products containing palm oil. Blood on our hands? OH YES! And now the EU wants us to fill our cars with this stuff as well ...

1. Cetearyl Alcohol
2. Cetyl Alcohol
3. Cetyl Palmitate
4. Coconut Butter Equivalent (CBE)
5. Coconut Butter Substitute (CBS)
6. Elaeis Guineensis
7. Emulsifiers E471
8. Fatty Alcohol Sulphates
9. Glyceryl Laurate
10. Glyceryl Stearate
11. Hydrated Palm Glycerides
12. Isopropyl
13. Octyl Palmitate (and anything with palmitate at the end)
14. Palm Oil Kernal
15. Palm Olein
16. Palm Sterine
17. Palmate
18. Palmitate
19. Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate (SDS or NaDS)
20. Sodium Isostearoyl Lactylaye (derived from vegetable stearic acid)
21. Sodium Laureth Sulphate
22. Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate
23. Sodium Lauryl Sulphate
24. Steareth -2
25. Steareth -20
26. Stearic Acid
27. Vegetable Oil / Vegetable Fat (a high saturated fat content = Palm Oil)

You will be amazed where you see these ingredients! Ask your government to pass laws to label product ingredients correctly - YOU HAVE A CHOICE AS TO WHAT YOU BUY! Ask your supermarket to procure responsibly and DO NOT support products that are not labelled correctly. CONSUMERS! UNITE! For the sake of the rain forests. For the sake of the orangutans. For the sake of Mother Earth ... soon it will be too late!

Don't Assume!

There was a most important job that needed to be done,
And no reason NOT to do it, there was absolutely none.

But in vital matters such as this the thing you have to ask, is
WHO exactly will it be who’ll carry out this task.

ANYBODY could have told you that EVERYBODY knew,
that this was something SOMEBODY would surely have to do.

NOBODY was unwilling, ANYBODY had the ability,
but NOBODY thought he was supposed to be the one.

It seemed to be a job that ANYBODY could have done,
If ANYBODY thought he was supposed to be the one.

But since EVERYBODY recogized that ANYBODY could,
EVERYBODY took for granted that SOMEBODY would.

But NOBODY told ANYBODY that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.

And NOBODY took it on himself to follow through and DO,
What EVERYBODY thought that SOMEBODY would do.

When what EVERYBODY needs so did not get done at all,
EVERYBODY was complaining that SOMEBODY dropped the ball.

ANYBODY then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And EVERYBODY looked around for SOMEBODY to blame.

SOMEBODY should have done the job and EVERYBODY would have,
but in the end NOBODY did what ANYBODY could have.

- Charles Osgood

LET'S NOT DROP THE BALL AND ASSUME SOMEBODY WILL SAVE THE ORANGUTAN, THE RAIN FOREST, OR THE REST OF MOTHER EARTH.
DO YOUR BIT - UNDERSTAND YOUR IMPACT - LIVE CONSCIOUSLY!

http://www.primateprotection.org.uk
http://apecampaign.blogspot.com/2009/11/donation-wall.html

TH!INK.