on 09-11-2018 22:24
Iceland produced an advert for Christmas, which was based on saving the rainforest
The commercial, made with Greenpeace, features an animated orangutan and highlights the destruction of the rainforest by palm oil growers.
The advertising clearance body, Clearcast, who screen broadcast adverts, deemed that the film breaks rules banning political advertising laid down by the 2003 Communications Act.
Earlier this year, Iceland became the first major UK supermarket to announce they are removing palm oil from all its own-brand products.
Political correctness gone mad?
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 10-11-2018 09:00
on 10-11-2018 09:00
This from The Guardian sums it up beautifully.
Major retailers enter a battle every Christmas to make us cry with their saccharine seasonal ads – but this year we already have a clear winner.
Concern about our planet has never been greater, thanks to last month’s UN report warning that we have 12 years to stop irreversible damage to the Earth.
Yet, one month on, a supermarket’s Christmas advert showing the damage palm oil is doing to the natural world has been deemed 'Too political to put on TV'
If that doesn’t make you weep, I’m not sure what will.
Iceland repackaged a short film by Greenpeace, showing the destruction of an orangutan’s rainforest habitat due to palm oil growers. Palm oil is about as unsustainable as it gets, and contributes to habitat loss and the endangerment of species, including elephants, rhinos, tigers and orangutans.
(More in the article below)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/09/iceland-christmas-ad-palm-oil-banned
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 10-11-2018 09:30
on 10-11-2018 09:30
Well done Iceland ~ I am with you.
10-11-2018 14:01 - edited 10-11-2018 14:02
10-11-2018 14:01 - edited 10-11-2018 14:02
Yet adverts for WWF are not as "political"? Except they're asking for money and Iceland are making a statement based on facts and their own mission?
on 10-11-2018 21:24
on 10-11-2018 21:24
on 10-11-2018 21:35
@TallTrees wrote:
And from now on I am making sure I do everything I can not to buy product with palm oil in.😪
Is Palm Oil labelled?
on 10-11-2018 22:02
on 10-11-2018 22:02
@Anonymous wrote:
@TallTrees wrote:
And from now on I am making sure I do everything I can not to buy product with palm oil in.😪Is Palm Oil labelled?
If it's in the ingredients of any products it has to be displayed @Anonymous
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 10-11-2018 22:05
on 10-11-2018 22:05
on 10-11-2018 22:06
on 10-11-2018 22:06
So here are 10 things that contain palm oil. Some may surprise you....
https://thecornishlife.co.uk/10-things-youre-buying-probably-contain-palm-oil/
Veritas Numquam Perit
10-11-2018 22:09 - edited 10-11-2018 22:15
@Cleoriff wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@TallTrees wrote:
And from now on I am making sure I do everything I can not to buy product with palm oil in.😪
Is Palm Oil labelled?
If it's in the ingredients of any products it has to be displayed @Anonymous
But like the article states.. most of it says vegetable oil, not palm oil. So I’m wondering how we can find out which are the baddies and which aren’t!
There’s a link at the bottom of that article which gives all the names that refer to palm oil.. read HERE ..
how the merry **** am I supposed to remember all those names, I mean come on..
on 10-11-2018 22:51
on 10-11-2018 22:51
@Anonymouslooking at that list it would be almost impossible to avoid everything
However, we can only do our best with what we do know.
Veritas Numquam Perit