Nestlé Killer

On October 30th, 2009 Australia's 'Truefood Guide' was released. The aim of this guide was to empower Australian's to select healthy food choices that were free of genetically engineered ingredients.

The guide reveals over 1000 of Australia's leading food and beverage brands for the amount of genetically engineered ingredients and rates them according to their safety.

The GE-Free Chefs Charter was also created where more than 180 chefs signed in order to create more publicity and awareness of the GE-Free campaign. Many said that we did not know the long term side effects on our bodies and the environment, and were trying to prevent genetically engineered products from entering our supermarkets.
Since the release of the Truefood Guide, leading Aussie brands such as Nestlé, Schweppes and Fosters have committed to the GE-Free policy.

Although Nestlé took part in transforming the food industry to GE-Free products, Nestlé is continuing to use palm tree oil in many of their bestselling chocolates.

So why is this so terrible?

Indonesia’s rainforests are being destroyed as an increase in demand of palm tree oil sweeps the globe. This in turn is driving Indonesia’s Orang-utan’s to the brink of extinction. The Greenpeace website reveals that every 12 seconds, an area of a forest in Indonesia the size of a football field is being cut down.

According to the Centre for Orang-utan Protection, at least 1,500 orang-utans died in 2006 as a result of deliberate attacks by plantation workers and loss of habitat due to the expansion of oil palm plantations.

Greenpeace has also launched an advertisement, check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8TZqQrp9zc

What is being done?

Over 200,000 people have contacted the CEO of Nestlé since Greenpeace’s global campaign which started on March 17th but this is still not enough for Nestlé to stop buying palm tree oil from the Indonesian rainforests.

If you would like to let the CEO of Nestlé know that this is inappropriate behaviour for such a prestigious company, visit this link to make a difference - www.greenpeace.org/australia/issues/deforestation/take-action/kitkat