palm oil free halloween

Halloween without palm oil

Welcome to ChooseSustainable.org a blog about individual climate action. As usual, my October post is a reminder of the destructive properties of palm oil, a common ingredient in Halloween candies.

Palm oil is one of the most devastating commodities, driving deforestation, the extinction of countless species, and rampant human right abuses. Unfortunately it is found found in mass produced Halloween candies as well as other countless products. This Halloween take a few extra minutes and read the ingredients to avoid candies that contain palm oil.

Below is a link to a list of candies without palm oil. However it is always better to read the label to make sure ingredients haven’t changed.

Halloween Candy Without Palm Oil | Palm Oil Free Candy

The Orangutan alliance post linked below is a few year old, but it discusses the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification.

A Palm Oil Free Halloween

Don’t be fooled by RSPO certifications. The only way to stop deforestation is the “Palm oil free” label.

RSPO’s Dubious “Sustainability”: 30 Years of Deceit

Industrial deforestation, driven by palm oil demand, is one of the 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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This Halloween choose sustainable

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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An Earth-friendly Halloween

Welcome to YouChoose, a blog where we explore ways of living sustainably. As Halloween is getting closer I wanted to share some information that can help us make this celebration Earth friendly.

As we all know the beloved Halloween trick or treating tradition has become big business. The stores are full of bags of candies of all sorts and because we are always pressed for time we purchase bags and bags of candies many of which stay in our pantry for a long time afterward. Many of the “big brand” candies unfortunately contain palm oil. As discussed in previous posts palm oil causes enormous environmental damage and it is one of the major drivers of deforestation.

If you want to celebrate an Earth-friendly Halloween please read the ingredients in the candies you purchase and make sure to buy only those that don’t list palm oil among them. This is hard, but you still have several good choices available in general stores or you can choose to bake your own cookies if you have the time.

If you do decide to buy palm oil free candies, I am providing here a link to the WWF rating of corporations based on their deforestation record. You can copy and paste the link provided below into your browser, find your preferred candy company and decide if you want to buy their product.

http://palmoilscorecard.panda.org/#/scores

As you can see in the WWF analysis, no company produces 100% traceable and sustainable palm oil. Even purchasing from the high scoring companies means encouraging deforestation to some degree so it is better to keep that to a minimum.

In case you want to spend half hour baking I am posting here a nice recipe for pumpkin cookies. I tried it myself for the first time and it came out good.

The YouChoose app provides several links and information on food products that are unsustainable and bad for the environment.

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