University of Michigan: Palm Oil Plantations and Deforestation in Guatemala - Certifying Products as 'Sustainable' is No Panacea
July 21, 2023
July 21, 2023
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 21 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
Cheap, versatile and easy to grow, palm oil is the world's most consumed vegetable oil and is found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, from bread and margarine to shampoo and toothpaste.
But producing palm oil has caused deforestation and biodiversity loss across Southeast Asia and elsewhere, including Central America. Efforts to curtail the dam . . .
Cheap, versatile and easy to grow, palm oil is the world's most consumed vegetable oil and is found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, from bread and margarine to shampoo and toothpaste.
But producing palm oil has caused deforestation and biodiversity loss across Southeast Asia and elsewhere, including Central America. Efforts to curtail the dam . . .