Sarah Newman: How Palm Oil, an Ingredient Found in Everything from Chocolate to Chips, Is Causing Massive Environmental Destruction
Grown primarily in Indonesia, palm farms are causing alarming rates of deforestation and displacement of indigenous peoples, and are posing a serious threat to local biodiversity… Most of the big-name global consumer giants — Cargill, Nestlé, Pepsi, Kraft and Proctor & Gamble, to name a few — are entangled in the palm oil market
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