Your Instant Ramen Noodles Are a Massive Threat to the Environment

Salon ^ | SATURDAY, JUL 18, 2015 | Renard Loki

[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 world’s 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 they’re 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.”

[jy8z]

I hear palindromic salesman do well there.

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[KC_Lion]

Several of my friends keep trying to recruit me into watching K-Drama....

:O

Grace, You Won't Regreat it!

http://www.dramafever.com/

I beg you give it a try!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozohyyqgOSw

http://www.allkpop.com/article/2015/07/

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[KC_Lion]

For Some Reason, last year when I was reading about Neon Genesis Evangelion, This Song fit well with it :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8j_XEn9b_8

I don't know why but it did.

[Norm Lenhart]

Dunno. Vinyl dresses maybe? ;) Eva is all about the Sinatra. FLYYYYYY me to the Moooooon.....

[moovova]

I’m sure if Salon asks real nice, the Japanese noodle companies will use whale blubber instead of palm oil.

[QT3.14]

“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

From a series of photos taken at Cankle's campaign HQ

[KarlInOhio]

This sounds like a job for Paul Watson. Abandoning the ocean, the Sea Shepherds become the Land Shepherds and protect the palm trees. Now with far less chance of sinking (except for Watson himself if he hits some soft ground) and far less chance of getting lost and starving than at sea, the Land Shepherds will embarrass themselves weekly on Plant Planet's new series PALM WARS!

[sheikdetailfeather]

My favorite:

http://www.amazon.com/Nongshim-Gourmet-4-2-oz-Packages-20-Count/dp/B00778B90S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437447221&sr=8-1&keywords=shin+hot+and+spicy+ramen

[Cold Heat]

Hope the morons starve to death....lol

[MeshugeMikey]

unsustainable palm oil????

I cant even begin to go there

[blueunicorn6]

Well, OK, Joe Biden can use a spoon, but he’s still wearing his shirt inside out.

[5th MEB]

Better with chopped Spotted Owl!

[GeronL]

trying to blame Ramen for destroying the world, how silly

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One of my roomies was half Japanese and he made stuff with those cheap noodles that were crazy.

Any of it involve live insects?

[Jack Hydrazine]

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Your Instant Ramen Noodles Are a Massive Threat to the Environment

Even more so than Gore-Bull Warming??

[GeronL]

But is it okay if we have a Free Range Noodle Farm or would that be a ranch...

[GeronL]

Noodles are killing Earth!! OMG