Recently the French ecology minister posted an advisory asking people to stop using the popular hazelnut and chocolate spread as reported by Grub Street a New York Magazine blog site about the food and restaurant business.(http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/nutella-environment.html).
The root of the issue is one of the main ingredients in the spread is palm oil. Palm oil has been a cause for concern among environmentalist for several years. The biggest problem is that the increasing demand for the cooking oil has greatly increased the rate of deforestation, which destroys habitat for wildlife and flora and reduces the number of trees to take carbon dioxide out of the air leading to climate change. However, some environmental groups like Greenpeace are okay with the way the product is manufactured (http://time.com/3926118/greenpeace-nutella/).
