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80,000 AUSTRALIANS SAY DON’T PALM US OFF!
March 12th, 2010
Australians have collectively flexed their people power muscle to demand clear labelling of palm oil in all food products on our supermarket shelves.
More than 80 per cent of the world’s palm oil comes from South East Asia, much of which is produced at the cost of the last remaining habitat of the Orang-utan and Sumatran Tiger.
“It’s not mandatory to label palm oil. More often than not it is simply hidden under the label of vegetable oil,” says Zoos Victoria’s General Manager of Community Conservation, Rachel Lowry, “so most of us have no idea if our food is fuelling the extinction of incredible creatures like the Orang-utan.”
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