Blue Peter
CBBC
PO Box 9989
Salford
M5 0DP
Dear Lindsey and Radesy,
I am a 9 year old year 5 pupil at Longnor Primary School and we have been learning about the consequences of palm oil. I am almost certain that all adults want to hand down the earth to the next generation as a clean and green planet. The outcome if we do not do anything would be devastating. So a suggestion would be to make an episode on palm oil. The reason I choose to write to you was because you are such an inspiration to me and you can spread the word world-wide. I am a very big fan of blue peter because I love all the adventures and challenges you take on. Also I am astonished that blue peter has been a TV series for 60 years.
It is absolutely crazy that 50% of all deforestation is for palm plantation. Palm oil companies are in the top 4 worst industries for … using child labour personally that is horrendous. I am 100% sure that if we do not move fast and clean up this problem the people that say in 100 years there will be no rainforests left might be true. But if we do make it illegal to use palm oil 4.5 million people will lose their jobs they’ll lose everything. The rainforest is an important part of everyone’s lives including you; at the moment we are not looking after it as well as we should be.
Did you know that Bornean orangutan numbers more than halved between 1999 and 2015, with the loss of approximately 150,000 individuals. We really need to start to be more ethical with what we are buying. In the past decade brands including Nestle, Unilever and Mars have promised they would clean up the palm oil in their products by 2020, but with less than two years to go, forest destruction in Indonesia shows no signs of slowing down. An area the size of a football pitch is being torn down every 25 seconds with palm oil demands driving the destruction. This is mind blazingly devastating, please can you help? Thank you for reading.
Yours sincerely,
Scarlett Hurrell