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Prince Charles' Rainforest Project
Two years ago, the heir to the throne set up the Prince's Rainforest Project with the backing of 18 corporations including Goldman Sachs and McDonald's to campaign against deforestation. Environmental groups including the World Wide Fund for Nature, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, along with the United Nations, have expressed concern at the clearing of jungles in Sumatra and Borneo to make way for palm oil plantations.
But, the world's cheapest cooking oil is also grown in Papua New Guinea and Colombia. Now, according to a report in The Independent, palm oil is present in five of products in Prince Charles' Duchy Originals range of organic groceries sold in British shops. The Independent disclosed the confirmed or suspected presence of palm oil in 43 leading brands, including Hovis bread, KitKats and Mars Bars.
Duchy
Originals
manufacturers
pour
palm
oil
into
its
toffee
biscuits,
beetroot
soup,
spinach
and
nutmeg
soup,
fresh
chicken
gravy
and
steak
and
ale
pie.
But,
according
to
a
spokesman
for
the
company,
"Currently
less
than
five
of
our
products
in
a
range
of
over
200
-
contain
palm
oil.
Duchy
Originals
only
uses
palm
oil
in
recipes
where
there
is
no
alternative,
and
then
only
in
minimal
quantities."
"We
have
worked
hard
over
the
past
year
to
eliminate
palm
oil
from
a
number
of
our
products
and
have
asked
our
producers
to
look
at
replacing
it
wherever
possible," he
added.
Only
two
per
cent
of
global
palm
oil
is
currently
certified
sustainable
by
the
Roundtable
on
Sustainable
Palm
Oil
(RSPO).
The
rest
-
including
supplies
from
newly-razed
forests
-
is
mixed
together
in
refineries.
At one stage, Duchy Originals' PR company stated it only required suppliers to be RSPO members, but Duchy Originals later clarified that supplies had to be RSPO-certified.
There is no proof, whatsoever, who buys these sustainable supplies because contracts are between manufacturers and suppliers. However, the first certified supplies only became available in November 2008, meaning that Duchy Originals palm oil would not have had the international guarantee of sustainability before then.
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