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Your Instant Ramen Noodles Are a Massive Threat to the Environment
Salon ^
| SATURDAY, JUL 18, 2015
| Renard Loki
Posted on 07/20/2015 6:31:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bad news for broke college students, even worse news for the planet VIDEO
For decades, instant ramen noodles have been a culinary staple for cash-poor college students, young working professionals and even prisoners. Yet ramen noodles are a main culprit of deforestation due to the high amount of unsustainable palm oil used to make them. While several large food corporations have committed to eliminating conflict palm oil from their supply chains, two of the worlds biggest instant noodle producers, Nissin Foods Holdings and Toyo Suisan Kaisha (Maruchan), both Japanese firms, have failed to adopt responsible palm oil policies, according to SumOfUs, a non-profit consumer advocacy group.
Instant noodles are cheap, convenient, and popular, but today theyre mostly a threat to our planet, said Kaytee Riek, campaigns director at SumOfUs, in an email. Both Nissin and Maruchan have failed to cut ties with bad actors that clear rain forests, peatlands and abuse the rights of communities and workers in the palm oil sector, she said.
As global demand for palm oil has skyrocketed, so has the need for large numbers of laborers on plantations, according to Humanity United, a non-profit social welfare group, This has resulted in widespread exploitation of workers and a reliance on forced and child labor.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; foodnazis; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; nazis; ramen; topramen
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To: KC_Lion
You can drop by my place to pick up the Japanese Cartoons, I don’t have any hentai so if you are looking for that you are barking up the wrong ginko tree.
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:08:57 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: KC_Lion
It’s our duty as conservatives to conserve the Japanese people.
No, no one need than us. It’s our duty to selflessly sacrifice ourselves so that others may live on.
‘Murica. F’ YEA!!!
To: Crim
As I mentioned somewhere above, I did coincidentally buy a container of Nissin Instant Noodles just the other day. The last time I had bought instant soup was several years ago. In any case, I think I might try, as you suggest, mixing some chicken or even steak with it.
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:10:04 PM PDT
by
ETL
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To: GraceG; Norm Lenhart; GeronL
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:14:31 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
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To: JoeProBono
Those are higher grade noodles. Even more palm oil?
And then you add meat. More land had to be cleared, and trees chopped down --- just think of the loss of love, Joe.
Yes, it's enough to ruin one's appetite, I know, but we all must suffer, or else the happy Buddha Goracle may lose a few pounds, then not be as enlightened as need be, to bring earth, in balance.
How could you do this?
We watching you JoeWe watching you all time
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:17:51 PM PDT
by
BlueDragon
("Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?")
To: KC_Lion
Wait....no hentai? I thought every good rock ribbed SoCon owned a copy of Urotskudoji: Legend of the Overfiend ;)
Thats OK. I preferred Bubblegium Crisis/AD Police/Ghost in the Shell anyway. No hentai, just awesome anime.
To: KC_Lion
Not into K-POPactually, though some songs sound nice
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:18:39 PM PDT
by
GraceG
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To: GraceG
Maybe they can swear-off palm oil and switch to whale oil.
Would that make these guys happy?
68
posted on
07/20/2015 7:20:07 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Make a batch with crude oil and force feed it to them.
Problem solved.
To: JoeProBono
Wow, that’s “instant” alright!
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:22:37 PM PDT
by
ETL
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To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:22:50 PM PDT
by
GraceG
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To: nickcarraway
These people need to just kill themselves. How miserable and lonesome they must be
on top of the world, and smarter than anybody outside of their closet.
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:24:49 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:24:57 PM PDT
by
ETL
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To: GraceG; Norm Lenhart; GeronL
Not into K-POPactually, though some songs sound nice
Grace, You don't know what you are missing, :O
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:25:38 PM PDT
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KC_Lion
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To: MaxMax
To: nickcarraway
I’m hoarding ramen noodles for TEOTWAWKI. Just let some starving enviro-zombies come lurching down my path with their hands out.
BWAHAHAHAHA
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:27:13 PM PDT
by
mumblypeg
(I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
To: JoeProBono
"Pasta with chicken and honey sauce. Say when!"
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:28:36 PM PDT
by
ETL
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To: KC_Lion
To: KC_Lion
Several of my friends keep trying to recruit me into watching K-Drama....
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:31:01 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/20/2015 7:33:37 PM PDT
by
ETL
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