Can Eating Palm Oil be an Environmental Hazard?

Consumer Trends Fuel Environmental Problems

Ever thought about how political food is?  Or how about certain food trends having an impact on the environment?  There's an interesting article at www.mongabay.com about how rain forests in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand or being replaced with oil palm, the world's number one fruit crop.  The oil palm cultivation is encroaching on the orangutan habitats and sensitive bio systems. The article is Why is palm oil replacing tropical rainforest? if you want to look it up.

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