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The Slick Nature of Palm Oil


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Palm Oil is highly praised for it's economy and affable nature by the biggest food companies in the world- so much so, that you can find it or it's derivatives, in 50% of the products we buy. But this cheap product comes at the very high cost of habitat loss, further endangering critical species. The complex drama rivals an M. Night Shyamalan film. 

25 Sneaky Names for Pall Oil:

1. Elaeis guineensis

2. Etyl palmitate
3. Glyceryl
4. Hydrogenated palm glycerides
5. Octyl palmitate
6. Palm fruit oil
7. Palm kernel
8. Palm kernel oil
9. Palm stearine
10. Palmate
11. Palmitate
12. Palmitic acid
13. Palmitoyl oxostearamide
14. Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3
15. Palmityl alcohol
16. Palmolein
17. Sodium kernelate
18. Sodium laureth sulfate
19. Sodium lauryl lactylate/sulphate
20. Sodium lauryl sulfate
21. Sodium palm kernelate
22. Stearate
23. Stearic acid
24. Vegetable fat
25. Vegetable oil

Articles and resources to follow up on...

https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/which-everyday-products-contain-palm-oil

https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/19/palm-oil-ingredient-biscuits-shampoo-environmental

https://www.rspo.org/resources/conservation-sustainable-management-of-natural-resources/best-management-practices-on-human-wildlife-conflict


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When You Know Better, You Do Better.By Lynn Trotta

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