MORE ON ORANGUTANS...

50 Orangutans die each week due to the Palm Oil industry. Sumatra and Borneo have two distinct species of orangutans – of which fewer than 60,000 remain on either of the two islands (as of 2007). As these are some of the last places for wild orangutans, there are estimates they will be extinct in ten years. Worried?

 

IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE THIS WAY!  BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO? 

Pressure from videos like this: 

helped to persuade a big name company like Nestle to switch to sustainable palm oil practices. Short of making a viral video of your own, what else can you do?

1 - Shop smart! Choose companies that use sustainable palm oil and ask them to label their products accordingly. *Please see below for a shopping guide of brand name companies that are part of the RSPO.
2 - Write to your favorite restaurant or grocery store manager, asking them to supply sustainably grown Palm Oil products.
3 - Write to US legislators asking them to support USAID grants that protect rainforests, orangutans and indigenous peoples in Indonesia and Malaysia.
4 - Contact the manufacturer of products that do not carry the GreenPalm or UTZ Certification logos - ask them to use substitute oils or to switch to sustainable palm oil products. 
5 - Avoid purchasing or using wood products made from the following rainforest trees: Teak, Ebony, Ironwood, Sandalwood, Mahogany, and Ramin, unless you know it was sustainably grown. 
6 - Spread awareness of the issues caused by non-sustainably grown palm oil. 
7 - Set a good example and tell your friends, family members and coworkers about the issue -- let them know how they too can help to make a difference.

http://redapes.org/about-orangutans/learn-about-palm-oil-threat 

RSPO MEMBER COMPANIES
Brand Names of RSPO Companies FOOD	Brand Names of RSPO Companies NON-FOOD
Act II	Ajax
Aunt Jemima mixes	All
Austin Brand Crackers	Alpo Dog Food
Baby Ruth	Aussie
Banquet meals	Avon
Ben & Jerry's Icecream	Avon
Bertolli	Axe Products
Bird's Eye	Beneful
Blue Bonnet Butter	Bird's Eye Foods
Boost	Body Shop
Breyers	Cadbury
Butterfingers	Camay
Carr's Crackers & Cookies	Cascade
Cheetos	Cheer
Cheez-it- (Sunshine)	Clairol
Chef Boyardee	Coast
Coffee Mate	Colgate Products
Country Crock	Colgate-Palmolive
Crunch & Munch	Comet
Dean's Dips	ConAgra
Doritos	CoverGirl
Dreyers	Crest
Drumsticks	Dawn
Edy's	Dep
Egg Beaters	Dial
Eggo's	Dove Products
Famous Amos Cookies	Downy
Fiddle Faddle	Drano
Frito Lay	Dreft
Fruit snacks (Kellogg)	Era
Gerber products	Eukanuba
Ghirardelli	Fancy Feast cat food
Girl Scout Cookies	Fantastic
Grandma's cookies	Febreze
Haagen Dazs	Fixodent
Healthy Choice meals	Friskies
Hellmann's Products	Gain
Hot Pockets	Gillette
Hunt's	Glade
Jenny Craig meals	Head & Shoulders
Jiffy Pop	Herbal Essences
Justin's products	Hills Science Diet
Keebler cookies & crackers	Iams
Kellogg's	Irish Spring Soap
Kid Cuisine	Johnson & Johnson
Knorr Products	Johnson & Johnson
La Choy	Justin's
Lays	Kelloggs
Lean Cuisine	LA Looks
Libby's	Lady Speed Stick
Lindt Truffles	Lindt Sprungli
Marie's dressings & prod.	L'Oreal
Morning Star Products	L'Oreal
Mothers Cookies	Max Factor
Near East	Mr. Clean
Nesquik	Mr. Muscle
Nestle Crunch	Murphy Oil Soap
Nutri-Grain Bars (Kellogg)	Nestle
Orville Redenbacher's	Off!
Pam	Olay
Parkay	Oust
Pasta Roni	P&G
Peter Pan	Palmolive Dish Soap
Pop Tarts (Kellogg)	Pantene
Power Bars	PepsiCo
Pringles	Pledge
Quaker Products	Ponds Products
Ragu	Pro Pet Food
Reddi-wip	Purex
Rice-A-Roni	Purina
Ruffles	Raid
Skippy PB	Right Guard
Slim Fast	Safeguard
Stouffers	SC Johnson
Sun Chips	Scrubbing Bubbles
Swiss Miss	Secret
Tostitos	Seventh Generation
Town House Crackers	Shout
VanCamp's	Snuggle
Wonka candy	Soft & Dri
	Soft Scrub
	Soft Soap
	Speed Stick
	Sun Products
	Sunsilk Products
	Tide
	TIGI Hair Products
	Tone
	Twincraft Soaps
	Twincraft Soaps
	Unilever
	Vaseline Products
	Ventura Foods
	Venus
	Vidal Sassoon
	Wella
	Whisk
	Zest

This is a fluid list. For updates check: cmzoo.org/Conservation/PalmOilCrisis
For more information visit: www.rspo.org

**Supporting companies who are members of RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) is the most responsible solution. The items found in this guide are produced by RSPO member companies.