User:ThePalmOilGroup/sandbox/Impact of the Use of Palm Oil

Palm oil production affects many animals including: Orangutans, Chimpanzees, Elephants, Tigers & Rhinos.This is because of deforestation. "The biggest impact of unsustainable palm oil production is the large-scale devastation of tropical forests. As well as widespread habitat loss for endangered species like Asian rhinos, elephants, tigers and orangutans, this can lead to significant soil erosion." To grow palm oil, people clear land, meaning cutting down trees, so they can plant palm trees to collect oil from. In this process, the habitats of lots of animals get cut down.

Palm oil is in many products you wouldn't even know it was in. Just a number of items that contain palm oil are:

-Bread

-Crisps

-Soap -Ice Cream

-Shampoo

-Chocolate

-Biscuits

-Make Up

-Non-dairy substitutes

-Cooking Oil

-Margarine

-Cleaning Detergent

-Cereals

-Frozen foods

-Detergent

-Pizza dough

and many, many more. You should try finding ways around using palm oil, just like KFC and Golden North Ice-cream.

All Golden North ice cream is 100% Palm Oil free. Golden North say, "This means that you can enjoy your favourite ice cream flavour knowing that its ingredients did not add to the deforestation and destruction of the home of Orangutans."

KFC also switched from using imported palm oil, "KFC restaurants in the UK and Ireland will stop using palm oil to fry its chicken beginning this month, reaping a “double benefit” by helping to reducing climate change and heart disease." they now use Australian canola oil in its Australian outlets. They did stop using palm oil,  but , this isn't as great as stopping using any tree oil because deforestation still happens to make canola oil, just less. Instead of stopping using products with palm oil in them, producers can put symbols on products that contain palm oil, but this palm oil was grown on land that wasn't cleared of trees. This hasn't happened yet though, so palm oil is still a big problem.

But palm oil isn't completely bad- "Palm oil has been linked to several health benefits, including protecting brain function, reducing heart disease risk factors and improving vitamin A status".

Palm oil is used for preventing

-vitamin A deficiency

-Cancer

-Brain disease

-Treating malaria

-High blood pressure

-High cholesterol

-Weight loss

Category:Palm Oil