Palm oil has weaseled its way into almost every product in our kitchens and bathrooms, but is it as bad as everyone thinks? Jess and Livvy take a closer look this complex and slippery topic - and make some surprising discoveries.
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LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- The banned Greenpeace/Iceland advert - Rang Tan
- Iceland removed own label from 17 products rather than palm oil (BBC)
- Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil website
- Friends of the Earth article: RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector (Link)
- Ethical Consumer Guide to Palm Oil: (Ethical Consumer)
- Palm Oil Innovation Group (Link)
- RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under sweeping new standards (Mongabay)
- Leashed monkeys forced to pick coconuts in Thailand (Independent)
- Millions of songbirds vacuumed to death every year during Mediterranean olive harvest (Independent)
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