SocraticGadfly: Five years left for the orangutan?

March 25, 2007

Five years left for the orangutan?

Yes, tragically, if we keep gutting its rain forest habitat.

You can help. How? Stop buying foods with palm oil in them.
The only orang-utans now left in the world live in Borneo and Sumatra, where the lowland peat forests that sustain them are being rapidly destroyed in a race between Malaysia and Indonesia to become the world's biggest supplier of palm oil.

It doesn’t take that much time to read the label of ingredients on a food.

I regularly buy Smart Balance margarine, which touts its heart-healthy combination of various plant oils. But, one of them is palm oil, so it will have to go off my food list.

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