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The Problem with Palm Oil

Be a Supermarket Sleuth

ADM, Bunge and Cargill have hidden rainforest destruction—in the form of palm oil—inside everyday supermarket products. We need your help in identifying which products contain palm oil and which products are palm oil-free alternatives.

Here is what you can do:

1. Form a Palm Oil Inspection Team

Get your friends to join your "Palm Oil Inspection Team" and visit your supermarket. Check the candy, snack food and soap/detergents aisles and mark down the 12 or 13-digit UPC number of products that contain any of the following:

  • palm oil
  • palm kernel oil
  • palm fruit oil
  • palmitate

Download the form outlining what information you need to collect

Also write down the UPC numbers of palm oil-free alternatives to products that contain palm oil.

2. Enter your products

Enter your UPC codes and score points for every palm oil product or alternative that you're the first to register.

Fill out the online sleuthing form!

Keep adding more products as you find them. Those who collect the most products will be listed on the site and, at the end of May, we’ll announce the top sleuths (and distribute some fun RAN gear).

3. Spread the word

Get everyone into the act. The more sleuths we have, the sooner we'll find all the palm oil products hiding in our supermarkets.

Tell your friends about the problem with palm oil

 

Or you could film your sleuthing like we did and upload your video to YouTube as a video response to ours.