A worker loads a truck with newly harvested oil palm fruit for Crude Palm Oil (CPO) on June 24, 2011 in Bintan, Indonesia.

Palm Oil Found in Many Foods and Cosmetics Is Destroying Forests and Animals

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 5, 2014

Palm oil is in a staggering array of food and personal care products. But conventional production of palm oil is driving massive deforestation and threatening endangered species in Indonesia and Malaysia. Calen May-Tobin is a policy analyst & advocate for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

Conventional palm oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia is threatening orangutans and other endangered species.
Conventional palm oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia is threatening orangutans and other endangered species.
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