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    1. Food Standards Australia (+ 26 others)
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      • Food Standards Australia
      • Leader of the Opposition (Tony Abbott MP)
      • Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing (Peter Dutton MP)
      • Foreign Minister (Senator Bob Carr)
      • Leader of the house (Anthony Albanese MP)
      • Independent MP (Tony Windsor MP)
      • Minister for Health (Tanya Plibersek MP)
      • Minister for Environment (Tony Burke MP)
      • Parliamentary Secretary for Health (Catherine King MP)
      • The Attorney-General of Australia (Nicola Roxon MP)
      • Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister (Senator Jan McLucas)
      • Deputy PM (Wayne Swan MP)
      • Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health (Andrew Southcott MP)
      • Chair of Economics Committee (Julie Owens MP)
      • Member of the Economics Committee (Shayne Neumann MP)
      • Deputy Leader of the House (Stephen Smith MP)
      • Independent MP (Rob Oakeshott MP)
      • Independent MP (Andrew Wilkie MP)
      • Member of Parliament (Melissa Parke MP)
      • Member of Parliament (Janelle Saffin MP)
      • Parliamentary Secretary for Trade (Justine Elliot MP)
      • Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (Julie Bishop MP)
      • Deputy Chair of Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (Joanna Gash MP)
      • Minister for Trade (Craig Emerson MP)
      • Member of Parliament (Bill Shorten MP)
      • Member of Parliament (Greg Hunt MP)
      • Member of Parliament (Tony Zappia MP)
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    andrew gunn
    Melbourne, Australia
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Palm oil production is the single biggest threat to South East Asian rainforests.
Palm oil is found in over 40% of the food products on our shelves.
Palm oil isn't even labeled in Australia. The average Australian consumes 10kg of Palm Oil every year.
Once palm oil is labelled, consumers can actually drive a market for proper certified sustainable palm oil because they can demand it of manufacturers.

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Mandatory labelling of palm oil in Australia

Greetings,

I just signed the following petition addressed to: Australian Government/Opposition/Parliament & Government Labelling Agency.

Mandatory labelling of palm oil in Australia
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Hello,

Every hour over 300 football fields of pristine, tropical rainforest is destroyed to make room for the establishment and expansion of palm oil plantations. Huge swaths of rainforesst are burnt to the ground, leaving thousands of innocent animals, including the endangered Orangutan, helpless. Local tribes who have lived in the forest for thousands of years are forcibly removed, often without compensation.

BUT it doesn't have to be this way. There is an abundance of degraded land and grassland that could easily be converted to palm oil plantations. The only reason companies destroy the rainforest is to selfishly profit from the sale of the timber.

To help support sustainable palm oil, the first step is for palm oil to be labelled on food products. Currently, with no mandatory labelling, consumers do not know if the food products they purchase support this destruction. We have a right to know, and demand that Australia introduces mandatory labeling of Palm Oil on all products sold in Australia.

The recent Review of Food Labeling Law and Policy entitled ‘Labeling Logic' addressed these issues and recommends that palm oil be labeled on products sold in Australia. Could you please ensure that this recommendation is implemented as soon as possible?

I look forward to hearing how soon this can become a reality.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

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