Iceland Christmas advert banned.

On seeing this ad yesterday I was disgusted at the TV ban.The destruction of forests for palm oil is one of my "soapbox" issues and I have been avoiding products that contain it for a long time.
I sent an e-mail to Iceland to give them my thoughts and congratulations on the ad and received a lovely thank-you e-mail back today.Please let Iceland know that you are supporting them.

I've also signed and shared the link on facebook.

We often get public information and charity requests featured at Christmas and some are very hard hitting so why not this?

Well done, Iceland.

Good point chrissy. Without a good knowledge of chemistry, it's hard to know exactly what we are buying and using.

Stearic acid (which is also derived from animal fats) is used in plastics manufacturing as a slip agent. We can take care over food labels but how can we know what is in all manner of synthetic products?

Plastic toys may contain palm oil. Remember all the fuss a while back about the new plastic banknotes containing tallow? The alternative is to switch to palm oil.

Did you find the petition? If not I signed this one yesterday chng.it/YjCXW5nc

I am so glad to note that many here on GN will not be silenced, and have shared the banned Iceland advert on facebook, as I have done.

There is a petition on facebook for it to be unbanned
Banned because its the truth,good on Iceland,

The petition has been talked about since yesterday Valerie

Shared and petition change.org signed. Over 400000 already signed over the last day or so. I think they may have to think it out again!

I've shared on Facebook. The advert will get far more publicity and coverage due to the banning, I hope. Well done Iceland.

I have also signed the online petition on Facebook.

I've signed too but I bet most of us will continue buying products regardless, as it's far too time consuming to read the often long list of ingredients on the back.
Those who need readers might have to scrabble around in their bag and then remember that they left them at home.
All well intentioned in the run up to Christmas, swept along on a tide of goodness, however, during the rest of the year when life gets in the way of environmental matters, we will forget.
I'm being realistic.
See how much you'll have to pass up
of the food you normally buy.
It will take you more than twice as long to shop as you'll read labels, find it has palm oil then have to read a lot more to find items without that ingredient.
Then we need to talk about dyes, parabens and sulfates.
I'll ask the question in March. See how much you have managed to change your shopping habits by then.

...and I shall continue to use my favourite Palmolive soap after reading their conservation plans.

It should be shown ...well done Iceland for making it. They are getting rid of lots of their packaging so they are doing their bit. We all have to do our bit.... oh and that ad gave me goose bumps....

Well there’s the easy way out by doing nothing and then there’s trying even if imperfectly

There is either doing it wholeheartedly OR cherry-picking.

if anyone would like to add to the protest, here is the link.

www.change.org/p/release-iceland-s-banned-christmas-advert-on-tv-nopalmoilchristmas













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I find it very sad that we as humans are destroying all of our animals, slowly but very surely

Squiffy, there is a petition in place from Change.org which I have already signed.

Sorry, Vandab46 has already posted. I didn’t see it!

Not to worry, it justs means perhaps more people will see it

I agree it should be shown there is a petition on change org for this advert to be shown I signed the petition then posted it on facebook. Please sign the petition.

GabriellaG I see where you are coming from, but if we all try to do something it will have a cumulative effect surely?

We avoid convenience foods and cook from scratch, it's possible to buy RSPO products (responsibly sourced palm oil), just means allowing extra time for shopping.

I am scrupulous about cosmetics and toiletries, no parabens or testing on animals. I am now avoiding cheap throwaway fashion since watching the Stacey Dooley documentary.

I am actually schocked at the amount of stuff which Husband and I have accumulated over the 30 years we have been in our house, and due to renovations a lot has gone to charity shops or is being recycled by AC.

It is very easy to get caught up with the trend of "must have" it only takes a few minutes to think do I need it!!

* swept along on a tide of goodness*

if only

Yes , Vandab46, except we are not destroying all the animals slowly. A Guardian article says we have wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970. This threatens all of us.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds?utm_source=eml&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&CMP_TU=&CMP_BUNIT=&att5=

Thank you for the link to Iceland. Appalling that it has been banned.

I haven't read all the posts so sorry if this has already been mentioned. Simon Reeve recently went round the Med. He visited an area (Spain I think) that is completely covered in plastic greenhouses to supply us with the sort of semi-exotic vegetables that we never used to eat here - avocados, courgettes etc. The men who work there are virtually slaves living in appalling conditions and badly treated. The owners discard the thousands of square metres of old plastic/polythene from the greenhouses in a nearby dry river bed - the banks are solid with layers of plastic. The plastic becomes brittle and when the rains come it gets washed into the sea. Do the supermarkets ever check on the suppliers of the sort of veg that we import? I'm now trying to eat veg seasonally and as far as possible grown in this country (or in my garden).

And don't get me going on the production of cotton that was recently featured on a documentary. Horrific for those living near the river running by the cotton mills.