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Friday, October 09, 2015

Half of Supermarket products here contain palm oil...

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In an earlier post, we saw how consumers can protect the envmt by boycotting products by unethical firms....The use of labelling helps consumers to achieve this if businesses are reluctant to cut ties with supplies who are unethical....
However, as the link above shows, it is more tricky when it comes to palm oil products, as palm oil is used in many different products, and often only in relatively small parts compared to other ingredients.....hence, labelling can be a problem, as the palm oil is often not reflected....its pervasive use also means that even if u know the product contains palm oil, u can't really avoid it totally if ur normal life is not to be inconvenienced.
Hence, there are imitations to the use of consumer boycott to influence envmtal protection...