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What is the controversy around palm oil? | Mongabay Explains

You've probably consumed or used something that contains palm oil today. For example, shampoo, soap, margarine, chocolate, and cosmetics like lipstick could contain the world’s most commonly used vegetable oil. Even though on the label it might say something else. Plantations of oil palm trees have replaced massive tracts of rainforest, beginning in Southeast Asia and spreading across the world. They’ve deprived plants and animals of their natural habitat and even affected the global climate. Here's why the crop is so controversial around the world. Read more: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/pho... #mongabay #palmoil #biodiversity #agriculture #conservation ---- Mongabay is a nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform that produces original reporting in English, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese. Check out https://www.mongabay.com/. Watch more of our videos:    / mongabaytv   Subscribe to Mongabay’s newsletter: https://mongabay.us14.list-manage.com... Follow Mongabay on Facebook:   / mongabay   Follow Mongabay on Twitter:   / mongabay   Follow Mongabay on Instagram:   / mongabay