Greenpeace New Zealand Weblog

Today, the world’s leading food and drinks company, Nestlé, had Greenpeace’s new video removed from YouTube. This is an apparent attempt to silence the truth that some of its most popular brands use palm oil from destroyed rainforests and peatlands. Turned out to be a bad move. The video has now gone viral. It’s out in the wild and can never be tamed.

We’ve now stuck the video on Vimeo. So, without further ado, here’s the video that offended Nestlé so. Can you work out why?

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Before most of us even had our first cup of coffee this morning, 32 activists from Finland and Sweden were up and taking action at a palm oil diesel refinery in Porvoo, Finland. Neste Oil, an oil refining company that is largely owned by the Finnish government, has plans to rapidly expand over the next three years – to become the world’s largest consumer of palm oil. Read more »

Dove advert

The Greenpeace campaign in Europe (that started with the Dove parody) to get Unilever to stop using the rainforest damaging palm oil has returned quick results.

Despite insisting a week ago that they wouldn’t be bounced into taking action, Unilever boss, Patrick Cescau performed a swift about turn today and announced that his company is supporting our call for a moratorium – a complete halt – on rainforest destruction in Indonesia. Read more »

This video supports a campaign being run by Greenpeace in Europe against the use of palm oil by Unilever, the makers of Dove beauty products.

Unilever are buying palm oil from suppliers who destroy Indonesia’s rainforests….

Talk to Dove before they destroy Paradise Forests: http://www.greenpeace.org/dove

Read the full article on the Greenpeace International website.

The video is a parody of the Dove ‘Onslaught‘ ad.