Tuesday May 05, 2009
How Britons fuel destruction of the rainforest
Martin Hickman
Independent
British consumers are fuelling the rising demand for palm oil, speeding up the destruction of rainforests and killing off orangutans
A cooking oil that is driving the destruction of the rainforests, displacing native people and threatening the survival of the orangutan is present in dozens of Britain's leading grocery brands, an investigation by The Independent has found.
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