The Huffington Post is using Halloween to talk about climate change.
Diana Donlon, the director of the Center for Food Safety’s “Cool Foods Campaign,” recently penned an article for the publication accusing Halloween candy of causing climate change.
How exactly is this so? Well, popular Halloween candies — along with a multitude of other products — contain palm oil, which Donlon enthusiastically says “is driving deforestation, extinction, human rights abuses, and climate change!”
Donlon labels this a “really scary” fact in an attempt to spook parents and kids on Halloween more than a bloody mask or chain saw ever could.
She suggests toward the end of the piece that parents chose candy brands that don’t use this evil type of palm oil and instead use a sustainable strain of the product.
These brands include Endangered Species Chocolate, Justin’s and Alter Eco, all of which are predictably very expensive. One probably won’t see average American households handing out three-dollar bars of chocolate in this Obama economy.
And, Halloween candy isn’t the only product that contains palm oil. According to Donlon, it’s also found in laundry detergent, shampoo and pizza dough.
Undoubtedly, she would also argue that hygienic Americans are contributing to climate change. Perhaps Donlon will blow the whistle on palm oil once again when “National Pizza with Everything Day” rolls around next month. There’s nothing scarier than a pepperoni pizza pie.
She might want to just grab a Snickers and enjoy the haunted house.
