Christmas (?) ad about palm oil is a tear jerker

[UglyCasanova]

i encourage you to watch it, quality stuff made by Greenpeace and used by a grocery store in Iceland but it was censored for being political. The environmental effects of palm oil are pretty terrible, Girl Scouts famously stopped using it a few years back. Humans suck

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/09/iceland-christmas-ad-palm-oil-banned

Edited the title a bit

 

[UglyCasanova]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_and_environmental_impact_of_palm_oil

Palm oil cultivation has been criticized for:

• Greenhouse gas emissions. Deforestation in tropical areas accounts for an estimated 10 percent of manmade CO
  2 emissions, and is a driver toward dangerous climate change.[17]
• Habitat destruction, leading to the demise of critically endangered species (e.g. the Sumatran elephant, Sumatran tiger,[18] the Sumatran rhinoceros,[19] and the Sumatran orangutan).[15][20][21][22][23][24]
• Reduced biodiversity,[25] including damage to biodiversity hotspots.[23][26]
• Cultivating crops on land that belongs to indigenous people in the Sarawak and Kalimantan states on the island of Borneoand the Malaysian state of Sabah.[27][28]

 

[greatnoob]

Thanks for your concern OP. This war on Christmas is getting ridiculous, right?

 

[bradly1101]

i encourage you to watch it, quality stuff made by Greenpeace and used by a grocery store in Iceland but it was censored for being political. The environmental effects of palm oil are pretty terrible, Girl Scouts famously stopped using it a few years back. Humans suck

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/09/iceland-christmas-ad-palm-oil-banned

Edited the title a bit

plus a bunch of other stuff, I'm so Roundup ready.

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[trenchfoot]

It's cheap to produce and that's all that really matters to those who seek to maximize profits.

 

[pmv]

It's not a grocery store _in_ Iceland, it's a frozen-food store _called_ Iceland!* But apart from that nitpick, for once I don't disagree with the OP.

* I believe the _country_ of that name is not entirely happy at having its name be someone else's trademark!

 

[purbeast0]

I'm not watching a 90 second commercial...

 

[MomentsofSanity]

It’s sad that an ad such as this is banned because it’s political considering the massive piles of steaming shit we get to deal with every couple of years at election time.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...why-iceland-s-anti-palm-oil-ad-should-be-seen

 

[UglyCasanova]

It's not a grocery store _in_ Iceland, it's a frozen-food store _called_ Iceland!*

Ah thanks for the clarification. I was a bit confused.

 

[FIVR]

The ad is banned in the UK, which is a completely illiberal country. This is the same country which bans encryption and has state-owned CCTV cameras literally everywhere.


If you expect the UK to value any sort of "Freedom", "liberal values" or the environment you haven't been paying attention. Does nobody remember the "I'm sorry!" BP commercials after they dumped 10B in oil into the gulf of mexico?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Love capitalism.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

Does nobody remember the "I'm sorry!" BP commercials after they dumped 10B in oil into the gulf of mexico?

I only remember the south park episode