I have a habit of reading ingredient lists. All the time. So today when I pulled a box of crackers out of the cupboard I automatically glanced at the ingredient list on the back of the box.
The crackers were Triscuits, and the second ingredient listed was “soy or palm oil.” Palm oil is primarily produced in tropical countries, and clear-cutting to make way for oil palm plantations is a major threat to areas of crucial, biodiversity-rich habitat, including the remaining habitat of the orangutan. To read more about palm oil go here, and then do what I did and write to Nabisco asking them to eliminate palm oil from their products.
~Rebecca
