The palm oil industry is one of the most complex and highly debated cases of exploitation in recent history and the chances are, you don’t even know how much you are contributing to this industry. We have managed to turn palm oil into a viciously domineering commodity; taking a natural material and using it to brutalise the environment, local populations and surrounding flora and fauna as well as the wellbeing of the entire planet.
Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, and is unavoidable in products ranging from peanut butter and cookies, to biofuel, shampoo and toothpaste. One reason why this ingredient appears in such a wide range of products is that it has over 200 alternative names, ranging from the easy to spot (almost anything containing the word palm — palm fruit oil, palmitate etc) to those which are more difficult to detect (sodium laureth sulphate, carotene, coco butter equivalent, vegetable glycerin).
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