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Indulge this Easter – but keep it Palm Oil-Free
Go here for the 2012 Palm Oil-Free Easter Goodie Guide
8 April 2011
For many of us, Easter is a time for some seriously good chocolate consumption!
If you are a chocolate lover, purchasing Easter goodies for yourselves, your family, friends and/or workmates, we encourage you to use our Palm Oil Free Easter Goodie Guide (pdf)
All the
products listed in it are totally palm oil-free - so as you crack
into those delicious chocolate eggs, you can rest assured that what
you are eating is not contributing to rainforest destruction and
the loss of precious rainforest species.
Currently, the clearing of rainforests in South East Asia to make
way for oil palm plantations is posing a threat to hundreds of
animal species including the orangutan, Sumatran tiger, Asian rhino
and Asian elephant. In fact, at the current rate of
deforestation, these species could be extinct in the wild by 2022,
and many more could follow if this continues.
Along with our Palm Oil Free Easter Goodie Guide (pdf), you can also use our Palm Oil Free Shopping Guide (pdf) which lists other confectionary products (including chocolate such as Whittaker's) that are palm oil free. Palm oil is used in at least one out of every 10 supermarket products, but there are still lots of products on offer to you that are palm oil-free.
Auckland Zoo believes the only way to slow palm oil expansion is to avoid or reduce palm oil consumption. Find out more about palm oil...