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  2. Social and environmental impact of palm oil - Wikipedia

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    Palm oil plantations, typically monoculture crops are under increasing scrutiny for their effects on the environment, including loss of carbon-sequestering, biodiverse forest land. [2] There is also concern over displacement and disruption of human and animal populations due to palm oil cultivation. [3] [4]

  3. What Is Palm Oil & Why Is It Problematic? - AOL

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    What do palm oil, deforestation and those fires raging in the Amazon have to do with one another? As it turns out, everything. You may have heard the controversy surrounding palm oil previously ...

  4. Palm oil - Wikipedia

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    Palm oil block showing the lighter color that results from boiling. Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms. [1] The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 36% of global oils produced from oil crops in 2014. [2]

  5. Is Palm Oil Bad? We Investigate - AOL

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    Take a peek at your shampoo bottle, go-to toothpaste or favorite jar of peanut butter, and you’re likely to be faced with palm oil (though it sometimes goes by other names—more on that below ...

  6. What is palm oil and why is it so bad for the environment? - AOL

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  7. Seed oil misinformation - Wikipedia

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    Seed oils are oils extracted from the seed, rather than the pulp or fruit, of a plant. Seed oils are characterized by the industrial process used to extract the oil from the seed and a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs.) [10] Critics "hateful eight" oils consist of seed oils: canola, corn, cottonseed, soy, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, and rice bran [11] which are creations ...

  8. Palm Oil Has a Reputation for Being Bad for You—Here ... - AOL

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    What nutritionists now know about the health benefits and drawbacks of palm oil. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...

  9. Criticisms of Cargill - Wikipedia

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    Palm oil is a globally traded commodity used in a wide range of consumer products, including packaged foods, cosmetics, and cleaning supplies, and as a feedstock for biofuels. Produced in the world's tropics on industrial monoculture plantations, oil palm has severe and widespread negative impacts on the environment and local people.