Welcome to ChooseSustainable.org a blog about individual climate action. It’s almost Halloween and you have probably added to your grocery list a bag of candies to distribute to kids in a few weeks.
It takes a small effort to celebrate an Earth friendly Halloween by avoiding candies that contain palm oil. Just look at the list of ingredients and select candies that don’t contribute to deforestation. Is that simple!
Don’t be fooled by sustainable palm oil labels, there is no such a thing as sustainable palm oil. Read here from the World Wildlife Fund about the link between big money and deforestation. Here you can find the palm oil buyers scorecard and here you can search the score of industries that make Halloween candies such as Mondelez International. Even the best scoring companies such as Ferrero can’t entirely account for the provenance of their palm oil.
Industrial deforestation, driven by palm oil demand, is one of largest contributor to climate change and the largest driver of loss of biodiversity and mass extinction on the planet. Don’t finance the suffering of countless species with your money, this Halloween go palm oil free.
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