'Orangutan' tour of Calderdale supermarkets  and Timber
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Todmorden News 11th Nov Friends of the Earth take orangutans campaign to supermarkets  Our press release On 29th October 2005 we joined the national FOE Day of Action to draw attention to the fact that the unsustainable sourcing of palm oil, present in about one in ten supermarket foods, is responsible for the destruction of the rainforest habitat in Indonesia and Malaysia of the orangutan, threatening this great ape with extinction within a decade. Our tour of Calderdale supermarkets was a great success.

There was a lot of interest from shoppers, bearing in mind that almost everybody would have no idea what palm oil is, where it is to be found, and the impact it is having on the rainforests and orangutans. Our thanks also to Linda Riordan MP for Halifax who joined us at the Tesco superstore, and offered her further assistance in Parliament because she is particularly concerned about animal rights.

Chris McCafferty MP also gave us a statement in support At the five supermarkets we visited we were met with a mixed reception: Sainsbury's were as nice as pie, Asda relented and allowed us to hand out leaflets outside the store (it's their private property), but Tesco King Cross and Asda asked us to leave after a certain amount of time.  But this couldn't happen at Tesco Market Street Halifax because we were on the public highway.  At each store, we handed in a letter asking the manager to take up with their head office their company's responsibility to source palm oil sustainably.... for all the Friends of the Earth briefings on Orangutangs and Palm oil.