Currently Palm Oil can appear on an ingredients list as Vegetable Oil. 

As a family we care about how Palm Oil plantations is impacting our forests, endangered animal species and the environment in general.

However the food labelling laws regarding Palm Oil have not been updated since 2011.

We think consumer awareness has changed considerably since 2011 (ours has) so we think it's important to make it as easy as possible to tell whether you are supporting an industry that has devastating consequences for the environment and our health.

UN Sustainability Goals indicate that Urgent and Significant action should have taken place to reduce the degradation of natural habitats by 2020. Surely this would have been more attainable if consumers knew that they were using Palm Oil!

SO CHANGE THE LABEL NOW - This Petition is a way you CAN help!

Below is a list of resources supporting this crux of this petition.

United Nations Sustainability Goals

Target 15.5
Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal15

FSANZ Food Labelling

'There have been calls for palm oil to be identified in the ingredient list due to health as well as environmental concerns.' (https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/generalissues/palmoil/Pages/default.aspx)

'In January 2011, an independent Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy presented 61 recommendations to food regulation ministers for action. Under recommendation 12, the review panel recommended changes to the way that added sugars, added fats and added vegetable oils, including palm oil, are declared in the ingredient list.' (https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/generalissues/palmoil/Pages/default.aspx