Would you continue to use this product?

[krysalyss]

I feel that they are copping out. They don't want to change their product and have thought up an excuse to use it. The fact is that they don't need palm oil grown in unsustainable ways. Indonesia loses about 300 football fields of forest every hour!!! and most of that is from unsustainable palm oil practices. After all you have to ask, what does anyone have to gain from the palm oil campaign. Non-profits have to spend so much time and money getting people to realise the impact of this crop. Companies save money by not having to change their practices.

The Palm Oil we get is from existing plantations, which arenormally converted rubber plantations.

- this is bollocks in that existing palm oil plantations are normall converted rubber plantations. They are normally converted forest. Also palm oil is so mixed up you can never tell what you are actually getting and where it comes from.

If we chose thecheapest Cocoa Butter, it may come from plantations in Africa that use childlabour. So although we are Palm Oil free, the consequences are worse.

To justify they are using other examples they are also bad. In my opinion this is simply their marketing. Nowhere in their response do they talk about the possibilities of sourcing from palm oil plantations that meet any kind of standard including fair trade when it is known the human rights abuses are linked with palm oil plantations.