Why palm oil should not be used

Pretty much everything you've used today contains palm oil in it. Soap, spreads, makeup, noodles, creams are only a few of the things that use palm oil, and you've probably already used a bunch of them today. It seems useful, doesn't it?

 But the harvesting of palm oil is fatal to the animals who need it-orangutans, tigers and elephants are a few who need this palm oil for their habitat. Not only are the populations of the animals who use palm oil declining rapidly, but palm oil is basically running out and is hard to acquire. Another thing is that reusable resources exist, yet we don't use them enough and instead risk the lives of harmless animals. This is why more people need to take action to reduce the use of palm oil.

Palm oil comes from oil palms, commonly found in Africa, and some parts of Asia. These palms a considered a home to many animals. Those three animals I mentioned earlier are only a small part of 193 species affected by the farming of palm oil around the world. Imagine nearly murdering an entire species just so your favourite shampoo company could release a new product. Half of the products in your local supermarket probably have palm oil in them as well. The act of farming for palm oil has forced animals to look for new habitats, as all the oil palms have been cut down and leaves them vulnerable. These animals have never done anything, yet we have destroyed almost all their homes and killed nearly all of them off. Approximately 6000 orangutans have died each year and there are only around 400 Sumatran tigers on the Earth, yet we keep wasting all this palm oil and not try to do anything about it.

There is also not enough land on this Earth to grow palm oil, since almost all the land in Indonesia and Malaysia has been taken up, and oil palms can't grow as well in different places. Not only is this a problem for the animals if we want to restore their habitats, but that most of these problems could have been prevented if we made attempts to use reusable resources earlier. Doing this would have also prevented many other problems to do with the environment. Things like pollution that are a result of the manufacturing are also harmful to the environment. 

It's time for us to start thinking about all the animals that have been affected by our decisions and ways we can change this. There are so many options, but we have never thought enough about it. So what are you going to do? Are you going to wait for all the animals to die off, or are you going to try and make some changes and help them? It's your choice, but you'll find it has a significant impact on our environment.