Palm.Oil.Plantations


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Gallery of Orangutan Pictures
|| Palm Oil Plantations
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Statement Palm Oil Plantations are a necessary part of food production

Opinion Against  ||  ||

===Certain types of palm trees produce large red fruit which are rich with oil. After refining, this oil, known as palm oil, can be used to produce all sorts of products, including oils used in foods like chocolates and cookies, cosmetics like makeup. The oil may be a useful product but the production of retrieving the oil is a horrible process. Thousands of palm oil trees are planted in cleared forests instead of already cleared land. Palm oil companies also frequently use uncontrolled burning to clear the land, resulting in thousands of orangutans being burned to death. Those that survive have nowhere to live and nothing left to eat. === ||= ====== || === Orangutans are big apes who are red, furry and amazingly closely related to humans. There are two types of orang-utan, Sumatran and Borneon. Sumatran orang-utans have lighter-coloured fur and a longer beard while Borneon orang-utans have narrower cheek pads. They live in rainforests and the word orang-utan means ‘man of the forest’. They are remarkable, cute and furry animals which are becoming extinct. Many zoos around the world are trying to help these gorgeous creatures but they need your help. You may not know it but you are destroying their lives everyday buy eating several snack such as Arnott’s Shapes band Tim Tams, Kellogg’s LCM’s, Nestle Kit Kat’s, Maggi Noodles and many more popular products. Cutting down the forests also affects other small creatures. It also contributes to another global issue, Global Warming. === ||= ======
 * = ===What are palm oil plantations? ===
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[[image:http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/5/24/palm%20plants.jpg width="292" height="232" caption="A logged forest filled with newly planted Palm Oil trees"]]
|| ===Although Palm Oil Plantations are making orangutans endangered some countries need the export to survive. Poor countries like Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and many more are very poor countries and need the international income. The statistics show that the number of Palm Oil Plantations has increased rapidlly over the years as well as the price of Palm Oil. Many companies around the world also insist that they cannot produce their products with the use of palm oil. They don’t make it clear on the actual items that they are using palm oil but they are. === || ====== || ===Palm Oil Plantations are horrible in my view. They are destroying the lives of innocent creatures. Poorer countries around the world can source other ways to supply their country with international income. Our world is here to stay and we need to protect it. We can’t fully stop global warming but little things build up to cause bigger problems. Also, companies can find a substitute for palm oil. Vegetable oil and canola oil are just as useful as palm oil. At the end of the day palm oil is not a necessity and we can’t find another way to recreate orangutans === ||= || =The number one thing you can do to stop the plantations is to stop purchasing products with palm oil in them. Maybe after all the lost purchases companies might realise that we won’t put up with palm oil in their foodstuffs. Other things you can do are support the zoo programs and even adopt an adorable orangutan.= || || =[] =
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