Comments on: Amazing Stick It to Palm Oil Reports and Pictures!

By: natural soap

natural soap — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:26:49 +0000

I am not sure exactly about benefits of palm oil but foods and cosmetics from natural oil should be healthy and health caring.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:53:00 +0000

You know, I was really excited when I found this site. My wife and I have worked very hard for the past six months to eliminate palm oil and SLS from our household permanently. I was hoping to find a list I could trust, just in case something came up, or known trusted and untrusted sources. But are you saying that any company that uses palm oil, sustainable or no, will be on your black list unless they sign YOUR pledge? Because honestly, after reading Wild Soap’s story, I’ve got to say that’s pretty crappy misinformation you’re spreading. And honestly, that kind of irresponsible, libelous misinformation is the REASON it’s so hard for the public to take environmentalists seriously. If you can’t be bothered to fact check the things you proudly publish, I do not think I will be supporting your organization after all.

By: miki

miki — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:58:00 +0000

buy palm oil

By: SylviaRaine

SylviaRaine — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:41:29 +0000

Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.

By: roy vizer

roy vizer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:12:29 +0000

can i get some stickers to stick here in Victoria BC. i’d also be into a large stickers to put on my bass drum. Thanks,
concerned Orangutan lover,
Roy

By: The Understory » Fortune Magazine/CNN Money calls out the problem with palm oil

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:02:42 +0000

[...] the article, they highlight RAN, the Stickering Day of Action , and the amazing work that you all did in sticking the “Warning: May Contain Rainforest [...]

By: Dennis V.

Dennis V. — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:15:35 +0000

Hey Marie in Westmont, Illinois!! Good to hear another person from Illinois in this action!! What a great action!!

Let me know if you ever plan another time of action. Maybe we can meet up!!
Plus get more people involved! Feel Free to email me!

By: mary kappus

mary kappus — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:05:00 +0000

please let me know about the responsible companies that you plan to highlight thanks.

By: maggie hanus, owner, a wild soap bar

maggie hanus, owner, a wild soap bar — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:56:46 +0000

Thanks Leila. I’ve already gotten an inquiry from someone who heard about us through RAN and I’m looking forward to the new campaign you plan to mount highlighting responsible companies such as ours.

By: Windsor, CT

Windsor, CT — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:37:01 +0000

My friend and I stickered and had no troubles at all! Felt good to be a part of helping to educate the public. Thanks RAN!

By: leila

leila — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:36:18 +0000

FYI: All companies who have responded to us and have signed the pledge to protect forests, family farmers and our climate have been taken off of our list of companies that use unsustainable palm oil, including A WILD SOAP BAR. We applaud these companies for signing our pledge and for all of their efforts to ensure that their products are using the most sustainable and responsible ingredients on the market.

RAN is committed to working with these companies and the many more that will sign our pledge in promoting sustainable palm oil alternatives and pressuring the ABCs.

By: maggie hanus, owner, a wild soap bar

maggie hanus, owner, a wild soap bar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:02:26 +0000

I know the difference between organic and sustainable… and I’m still waiting (and very patiently I might add!) to be removed from “the list” and for a retraction to be sent to all RAN subscribers as well as posted on your website.

By: Jennifer Krill

Jennifer Krill — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:26:43 +0000

Thanks so much for signing the pledge Maggie! We do regret that we didn’t start a dialogue with you earlier, and we certainly believe that we’re fighting for the same thing.

A quick note on organic palm oil – a large part of the reason why the RAN pledge was written is because in Indonesia and Malaysia, ‘organic’ sadly does not mean ‘sustainable’. It is certainly important to eliminate pesticides and herbicides in ag products, but with palm oil we need to go further. Organic palm oil still comes from destroyed rainforests, and organic certification does not cover the rights of Indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent over what happens on their land.

We are calling on companies to pledge to not use palm oil from converted rainforests, to refuse palm oil from climate change causing activities like forest fires and draining peat bogs, and to only buy products that fundamentally protect Indigenous rights.

Again, thanks for signing the pledge and we encourage companies who share our concern for the environment, human rights and the global climate to join this important campaign!

By: maggie hanus, owner, a wild soap bar

maggie hanus, owner, a wild soap bar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:57:43 +0000

I signed the pledge this morning Leila, thanks, my pleasure … but RAN should have done their homework BEFORE including companies like ours that are already using sustainable organic palm oil and doing all the things you’re asking! Have been for years! It’s a slap in the face after running a socially responsible green business for the past 13 years and donating countless time and money to dozens of environmental causes my entire adult life (I’m 52), only to find the hard earned reputation of A Wild Soap Bar stuck at the top of your blacklist of irresponsible companies! Think how you would feel. I’m sure you didn’t intend to hurt small family businesses, but you did! How many people saw our name at the top of that list? Last time I checked, it was still there!

RAN owes us an apology and you should set the record straight by sending out an email to your entire list letting them know that A Wild Soap Bar and others were incorrectly placed there. Simply removing our name is not enough. I trust you’ll do the right thing here because we’re all in this together. Peace.

By: leila

leila — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:05:00 +0000

Just to be clear, our campaign is not meant to hurt small family businesses. Our campaign is exposing companies, small or giant, who use palm oil (including palmitate) in their products and asking companies to make a commitment to stop. We’re asking companies to sign a pledge to protect forests, family farmers and our climate. If that’s done, we will happily take the the company off the list of companies that use palm oil. I posted the pledge late last night on the blog entitled “RAN Sends Letters to Over 300 Companies and Stickers their products too”.

Just in the last day, over 20 companies have signed our pledge. We encourage any other company that has received our letter or e-mails from supporters to sign our pledge.

NOTE: We apologize if you have not received an official response as of yet. We are doing the best we can to respond to all individually.

By: maggie hanus, owner, a wild soap bar

maggie hanus, owner, a wild soap bar — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:36:38 +0000

A Wild Soap Bar has been unfairly placed on your palm oil “blacklist” and you need to take us off!!! So far I have received no response from RAN to my email yesterday, explaining that we are a small eco-minded and socially responsible company that purchases sustainable organic palm oil from S. America that’s grown on reclaimed land that was clear cut 30-40 years ago. RAN is unfairly hurting our business and you owe us an apology! We’re not the problem, we’re part of the solution! Take us off this horrible blacklist before you do any more damage to our small family GREEN business! Geez.

By: Richard Zimmerman

Richard Zimmerman — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:22:14 +0000

Bravo to RAN for taking the struggle straight to the consumers. People need to know what they’re buying. Then they’ll stop. Palm oil is the most shameful substance on earth.

As palm oil companies clearcut the rainforests of Borneo & Sumatra and expand their industrial-sized plantations, thousands of orangutans are being systematically wiped out. Adults are killed on sight– often brutally–while babies are ripped off their dying mothers and sold into the illegal pet trade. This is a cruelty that must be stopped!

Learn more about efforts to protect orangutans and see what you can do to help! Visit the Orangutan Outreach website: http://redapes.org

–
Richard Zimmerman
Director, Orangutan Outreach
http://redapes.org
Reach out and save the orangutans!