Food that we buy at the grocery store should be real. "Cost effective" food is a misnomer, this junk-food, filled with industrial oils and emulsifiers, dyes, preservatives and sugar and salt is the real cause of health-care market instability and the political fallout that affect us all. Palm oil should be replaced with other safe oils that don't entail the enormous detriments to not only where they are sourced, but where they end up- churning inside you everytime you get weak and eat a donut, candy bar or cinnamon roll. Oils like safflower, canola, sunflower and flax oils should be used instead of palm oil which is obviously so heavilly industrialised through unethical trade tarriffs which all boil down to profits for a few at a huge environmental and human health expense.By now, many of us know that one of the most common ingredients in bakery goods, cosmetics, beverages and other snacks is directly causing catastrophic extinctions, wildlife abuse and deforestation in Sumatra and Indonesia through the clear-cutting of habitat for critically endangered, irreplacable native animals and plants. Only corporate and governmental greed and ignorance among consumers enables the oversaturating of the market with this ingredient which, while being cost-effective and extending shelf life of food products, hides a ruinous extraction process that callously disregards environmental common sense, decency and ethics. Food production regulations in the U.S. should require that palm oil either be certified to be 100% ethical/traceable in source extraction, or that other, more sustainable oils be used instead.
To the United States Food and Drug Administration:
Why is conflict palm oil found in virtually every kind of snack food, bakery product or cosmetic when consumers everywhere are aware of the catastrophic effects using this unnecessary ingredient have on the world's most delicate rain forests and wildlife habitate in Sumatra and Indonesia? Ultimately, its the responsibility of regulation at the highest administrative level to put a stop to this unnecessary practice used throughout the food industry in the United States. The rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease tied to the use of conflict palm oil are also an unnecessary drain on our overburdened medical care system as well. Its time to put balancing meaures into place and create legal regulations on the use of conflict palm oil on corporations which have only their own profit agenda as "ethical guidelines" with disasterous effects on healthy global ecosystems and social well being of our own citizens.
