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How Palm Oil Ravages Rainforests, Endangers Wildlife & Destroys Communities
2014-07-18 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Agriculture plays a massive role in todays global economy. Its easy to not realize that your salads fresh tomatoes are likely flown in from the Netherlands, its asparagus is picked by a Peruvian farmer and the dressing has palm oil harvested in Indonesia. Our complicity in an agricultural system that ships food products across the world via air, land and sea becomes a political decision, one that impacts the environment on a global scale. And palm oil, a popular ingredient in nearly 75 percent...
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