Calling on the Candymakers

Billions of dollars in sweets are sold by companies like Hershey’s, Mondelēz, and Mars every year — with holidays like Easter and Halloween each netting millions a’piece. What’s not so sweet is that too many of these tasty treats contain palm oil born of rainforest destruction.

With commitments to “No Deforestation” but no adequate monitoring system in place to actually track where destruction is going down, candymakers continue to profit off of a bitter fate for rainforests, and for the tigers, orangutans, elephants, and people that depend on them