Palm oil + TPP = the dark side.
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- Published on Sunday, 27 December 2015 18:00
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The TPP will destroy more acres of forest by helping conflict palm oil producers ride roughshod over the environment.
We don’t have long to stop the TPP from being ratified. Can you sign now to help stop the TPP and help stop deforestation?
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Conflict palm oil doesn’t just destroy precious forest, it is responsible for the abuse of workers and also sucks in enslaved migrants from all over South East Asia to work on the plantations. But if a huge new trade deal, the TPP, is enacted it could make it almost impossible to stop this dangerous industry.
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will allow giant corporations to overrule national governments through a system of secret corporate courts. If a large palm oil producer thinks tough new environmental laws protecting precious Malaysian rainforest infringes on its profits, then it can go to a one-stop shop to get those laws struck off the rolls.
If the TPP passes, there could be very little anyone can do to clean up the palm oil industry, save our rainforests and protect vulnerable people and workers from exploitation.
Can you stand up and say no to the TPP?
The TPP is a 12 nation trade agreement spanning countries as diverse as Vietnam and Malaysia to Japan and the United States. The TPP would mean a system of secret courts where big corporations, including the biggest and baddest of the palm oil world will be able to overturn the decisions of elected governments.
If it is ratified it will allow conflict palm oil corporations to vastly extend their operations in countries like Malaysia and Vietnam, further damaging the environment and exploiting the migrant workers who are so often abused in the pursuit of palm oil profits.
Our community has been at the forefront of the fightback against the TPP. Whenever negotiators met in remote tropical resorts signing over our democratic rights, we were there making sure the world knew about it. On palm oil we’ve taken on the might of PepsiCo and Starbucks. Now we need to come together to stop a trade deal that could be a conflict palm oil producer’s biggest gift for 2016.
Thanks for all that you do,
Carys, Martin, Kat, Hanna, Fatah and the rest of us.
More information:
Palm Oil migrant workers tell of abuses, Wall Street Journal, 26 July 2016
Sharks, Tigers, and Elephants: New Analysis Reveals TPP Threats to Endangered Species, Huffington Post, 12 July 2015.
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