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Comments: Nestle caves to activist pressure on palm oil


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I don't know ...assuming they are successful in using plantations that are less destructive, won't other users of the oil who were using the oil from those plantations now use oil from the worst plantations since Nestle has hogged up the supply? Isn't it all a bit like squeezing water from one end of a balloon to another?

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Russ Finley

Unilever has set the bar high. Check out their announcement of Nov 2009 suspending future purchases from palm oil supplier PT Smart. Kudos to them and to Nestle for seeing the light.
But we consumers need to reduce demand by boycotting products that include palm oil unless specified "sustainably produced" (as does Newman's own cookies). THAT is ours to do!

Patricia

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