Firstly, Animal agriculture is responsible for 80% of ALL planetary deforestation. But we need to avoid Palm oil". 20 sq miles of rainforest is cleared per day to build palm oil plantations. There are less than 3000 Samatran ELEPHANTS, and ORANGUTANGS are becoming extinct within a matter of years due to "Vegetable Oil/Fat" (Palm) consumption, widely used in soaps and processed food like cereals and chocolate or by fast food places.
An example of products that contain palm oil (in the UK) from Panorama doc Deforestation -Report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): 'the deforestation that has already taken place in Indonesia for palm oil, and the illegal logging that is still occurring there now, indicate that most of the country’s rainforest will have been destroyed entirely by the year 2022.'
Saturday, Jun 02, 2012 - BANDA ACEH Indonesia- Three critically-endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in an oil palm plantation in western Indonesia and are believed to have been poisoned, an NGO said Saturday. 4-year old elephants poisoned by fake foods left on the palm plantations. 
SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL
- Just a Monopoly engineered for profit
Land owners are put in prison and driven off their land. Wilmar is the largest palm oil company and protects its business interests, that is preserving a monopoly on palm oil not being a wildlife protector - CLEAR CUTTING without regard to legal permits. Oil palms were found on illegally cleared land, a orangutan was found unable to survive on the land left. The Sustainability Lie (video)
- Unfortunately, 'sustainable' palm oil isn't regulated, "it is impossible to know which palm nuts are used", so the companies are performing on a larger scale, what the RSPO is supposed to avoid, with the financial benefit of forcing out land-owners who want to sell palm nuts to survive. "At the present time, it is possible to be a full member of the RSPO without ever actually producing any RSPO certified sustainable palm oil."(Say No to Palm Oil)
- "Of 386 RSPO members, 95% represent industry interests, with environmental and social organisations accounting for a mere 5%. " Conflict of Interest?
- 'Multinational Unilever [animal testing company] provides the RSPO President, Wilmar International and WWF the Vice Presidents with business. Unilever is the largest palm oil purchaser worldwide, using 1.6 million tonnes a year [3 percent]. Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil company, is their main supplier... The RSPO industry certificate, devised by palm oil producers, traders and WWF in 2004 is based on lies“, says Klaus Schenck, Forest and Energy Campaign Spokesperson with Rainforest Rescue. "The lies about 'sustainable' palm oil must be ended immediately and European imports must be stopped. We must not consume any more palm oil at the expense of rainforests and the people living in rainforest areas"." (Rainforest Rescue 11 Dec 2011 Press Release)
From Occupy the Environment
Orangutans lose their homes and food sources, wander out to the villages where they are attacked (beaten, with fire). They are also killed directly, the babies are sold as pets and the mothers killed. Mother and baby saved by British animal charity Four Paws. From the 28th January 2012 article on consumerism and palm oil.
Poppy is eating sweet corn, she will then use the husks to practice her nest building skills. 'Poppy was orphaned by the palm oil industry... babies then cling to their mother's dead body, many of them just starve to death in their dead mothers arms.' Poppy is under the care of the Orangutan Foundation International
'Two young orphans finish off a fruit salad from their caregiver'. 'An estimated 5,000 orangutans are killed each year in Malaysia and Indonesia by the burning of vast tracts of virgin forest to supply the world's growing demand for palm oil...80 per cent of orangutan habitat has been lost in the past 20 years'. Orangutangs may be wiped out at the end of the year. 'roughly 200 orangutans left in the peat swamps will be gone in months if the fires continue'. From poaching and land clearing (29 March 2012)
Companies to avoid: ttp://www.saynotopalmoil.com/palm-oil.php Watch http://youtu.be/xUQWpJgCEy8 video and Palm oil video. - Rainforest Action Network factsheet: http://ran.org/problem-palm-oil-factsheet - Dirty Oil. One Green Planet 10th April 2012: 'In 2010, Unilever, Kraft and General Mills, HSBC bank, agribusiness giant Cargill and Nestle. Corporations that have been leading palm oil expansion into Indonesia’s peatlands include Gillette, Burger King and McCain. Other popular brands are also huge investors in the palm oil industry. If you buy products such as Kellogg’s cereals, Hovis bread, Cadbury’s chocolate bars, Flora margarine, Persil washing powder, or anything from Premier Foods'.
According to the UN Environment Programme (2010), over 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours, nearly 1,000 times the "natural" rate and is greater than anything the world has experienced since 65m years ago. Around 15% of mammal species and 11% of bird species are classified as threatened with extinction.(Guardian). Deforestation (Animal Agriculture) -Land is the lungs of the earth, see Global Depletion and Climate Change -Benefits of Organic, non GMO 
