Two sisters from Bedfordshire, England, who started a petition asking food company Kellogg’s to stop buying palm oil from producers that damage the environment, have got the company to change its ways.
Palm oil is used in hundreds of products and is farmed in Indonesia and Malaysia, where thousands of acres of rainforests are destroyed to make way for the plantations. This means many animals, such as orangutans, die because their homes get destroyed.
Asha Kirkpatrick, aged 12, and her sister Jia, aged 10, started the petition online in 2018, and so far it has been signed by almost 800,000 people. In February, the girls announced that Kellogg’s had released a new global palm oil policy, promising to help farming organisations to be more efficient, so that less rainforest is…