The title should be Rain Forests, Orang-Outangs, Palm Oil & Hair Dye

I came across an e-mail from Ecological Internet about the scandalous use of Palm oil by the EU.  The point being that it is cheaper to cut down and burn rainforest to make a quick buck on palm oil and to Hell with the people or animals whose homes they destroy.  The link below gives the full article.

http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=png_ramu_rh

A couple on nights a consumer program that names and shames poor practise in the food industry particularly in the UK.  One excellent expose was concerned with Galaxy Chocolate.  The wrappers have a Rain Forest Alliance friendly label on them.  This is despite the fact that they used NON environmentally palm oil in their creamy! chocolate.  In fact it is the cocoa beans that have the seal of aproval NOT the palm oil. Is someone in a hurry going to check the wrapper? I think not. Someone is more likely to grab galaxy rather than another bar when they see the logo and feel good about eating chocolate – again!

Now to the hair dye, that one’s easier. In haste I had bougth a different brand of hair dye.  The brown bits of my hair look fine, but the gray hair Iwas trying to colour looks like it belongs to orang-outang! Vanity Oh Vanity