Palm oil
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- Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00
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Oreo cookies and Toblerone bars come with a bad palm oil aftertaste. From deforestation to land grab, the palm oil industry is as dirty as it gets. The good thing is, Oreo maker Mondelēz wants to be a sustainability champion, so let’s push it to become one before it changes its mind.
Sylvia,
Oreo maker Mondelēz claims it’s “made snacking right” using only sustainable palm oil. But this is just a marketing smokescreen trying to cover up a supply chain so complicated and opaque, it’s darker than an Oreo!
The good news is that as an industry leader, Mondelēz is already keen to be a champion. All it needs is a big public push from a community like ours – and it... gets better: if a leading snack food company like Mondelēz goes full-disclosure on palm oil and all other commodities, many of its peers will follow. We’d be SO close to snacks and candies free from rainforest destruction!
We are consumers, shareholders, workers and investors, what we tell a company like Mondelēz weighs heavily in the balance.
Tell Mondelēz: Make your snacking truly right
Palm oil deforestation in Indonesia has fallen over the past years. But a price surge and the increasing number of exporters with lower standards are still putting forests and those who call them home at risk: stealing land from indigenous communities, destroying endangered wildlife habitat, and exploiting plantation workers.
Forest-linked commodities can have complicated, multi-layered supply chains. Mondelēz committing to publish a so-called “forest-footprint report” would truly help untangle that mess: it means full transparency down to the last piece of the supply chain, and if anything gets sketchy, the company knows it and is held accountable to making things right.
Our global community has moved industry leaders like PepsiCo before – and a commitment from Mondelēz would send huge ripple effects through the snack food industry. Let’s ramp up the pressure on Mondelēz to become the sustainability hero it’s trying to be and call for no more secrets and true sustainability.
Tell Mondelēz: No more secrets – go full-disclosure on your palm oil!
Thanks for all that you do,
Rosa, Fatah and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
Palm oil producer mired in legal troubles still razing Sumatran forestMongabay. 26 July, 2022
Keep Forests Standing Scorecard 2022
Rainforest Action Network. 08 June, 2022
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