Posted on 07/20/2015 6:31:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bad news for broke college students, even worse news for the planet VIDEO
For decades, instant ramen noodles have been a culinary staple for cash-poor college students, young working professionals and even prisoners. Yet ramen noodles are a main culprit of deforestation due to the high amount of unsustainable palm oil used to make them. While several large food corporations have committed to eliminating conflict palm oil from their supply chains, two of the worlds biggest instant noodle producers, Nissin Foods Holdings and Toyo Suisan Kaisha (Maruchan), both Japanese firms, have failed to adopt responsible palm oil policies, according to SumOfUs, a non-profit consumer advocacy group.
Instant noodles are cheap, convenient, and popular, but today theyre mostly a threat to our planet, said Kaytee Riek, campaigns director at SumOfUs, in an email. Both Nissin and Maruchan have failed to cut ties with bad actors that clear rain forests, peatlands and abuse the rights of communities and workers in the palm oil sector, she said.
As global demand for palm oil has skyrocketed, so has the need for large numbers of laborers on plantations, according to Humanity United, a non-profit social welfare group, This has resulted in widespread exploitation of workers and a reliance on forced and child labor.
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kimchee is not hard to make, I learned because I had to drive 40 miles to Asian stores to get it. It’s pretty good, too.
It shows me that it is utterly impossible to starve to death in America. For no matter how little money you have, you can still eat.
Good for you and enjoy. These articles drive me nuts. The Demons (Democrats) ruined our country and now blaming everyone else.
Conflict Palm Oil.
Are you freaking kidding me?
These days, point to something that ISN’T a massive threat to the environment according to the psychos.
I just had two bags for dinner. Take that earf.
Does anyone else remember about 20 years ago palm oil was the most toxic and terrible of all the oils? Now, it’s everywhere.
I imagine some enterprising palm oil producer cooked up the “conflict” destroying the earf palm oil sources to benefit his “sustainable green dolphin safe ozone friendly carbon neutral” palm oil. Another list of marketing shams and bogus environmental hysteria.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
Do leftists always consider cheap, easy-to-prepare foods to be evil?
DANG!
“I know my Raman noodles: V=5, X=10, L=50, C=100, and M=1000.”
*SMIRK*
If you eat 20 of those packages will you have a ramen incident?
you can make hamburger buns out of raman noodles,i usse then in stry fry and orange chicken
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