Archived News

17/08/2009 (Energy Boom.com) - For every step forward the biofuel industry seems to make, they take at least three back.

17/08/2009 (World is Green.com) - The palm oil Cadbury uses in Australia and New Zealand comes primarily from Malaysia and is not sourced from Sumatra, Borneo or any of the regions where the Orangutan is under threat. Cadbury also has a long and proud record on the environment. Our ‘Purple Goes Green’ initiative has been widely recognized with Cadbury winning independent recognition on everything from packaging reduction, water reduction and sustainable agriculture. Furthermore, as a business we have a target to reduce our carbon footprint by 50% by 2020 – a commitment that goes far beyond what most Governments are requiring, and a commitment that we are currently on target to meet.

17/08/2009 (Borneo Orangutan Survival (Australia)) - Consumers secured an important victory today with Cadbury reversing its previous decision to put palm oil in its dairy milk chocolate. This will include all dairy milk chocolate made in Australia and New Zealand.

17/08/2009 (Bernama) - Cadbury in New Zealand has bowed to consumer pressure and agreed to stop using palm oil in its chocolate, it has been widely reported here.

17/08/2009 (Stuff.co.nz) - Public concerns over palm oil were highlighted when Cadbury revealed it had started using palm oil in its chocolate, prompting a consumer backlash.

17/08/2009 (The Age) - Wild orang-utans are under increasing threat of extinction as their native rainforest habitat is razed for palm oil plantations to supply the world's food and soap product manufacturers.

17/08/2009 (Guardian.co.uk) - The production of biofuels is fuelling poverty, human rights abuses and damage to the environment, Christian Aid warned today.

16/08/2009 (Two Spoons) - I was sent the following news release from the Greens today, outlining the issue of palm oil use and how consumer backlash has caused Cadbury to stop using it in their chocolate. If you’ve noticed that Cadbury’s chocolate has tasted different (and not in a nice way) lately, it is partly because of the use of palm oil instead of cocoa butter, but thankfully anyone who has noticed has stopped buying the stuff. If you want to know more about palm oil and avoiding it, check out the links at the bottom of the article.

15/08/2009 (Dawn.com) - Malaysian crude palm oil futures plunged 8.7 per cent on Friday to an 11-1/2-month low as falling crude knocked vegetable oil markets, prompting Chinese and Indian traders to renege on palm contracts.

15/08/2009 (The Sunday Times) - Fuel companies are accelerating the destruction of rainforest by secretly adding palm oil to diesel that is sold to millions of British motorists.

15/08/2009 (Bernama),Serdang - Palm-based mozzarella cheese being produced by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) is expected to be marketed soon, research officer Dr Karimah Ahmad said today.

15/08/2009 (The Sunday Times) - For years, economists, along with everyone else, thought of palm oil as exactly what it looked like: a pinkish, sludgy irrelevance. People knew that it was used to make food and soap but everything else about it, including its origins, seemed slightly distasteful.