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Is it possible to stop buying products containing palm oil, or buy only sustainable palm oil?

April 26, 2017buy buying containing Oil palm possible products sustainable

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Is it possible to stop buying products containing palm oil, or buy only sustainable palm oil?

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Because there’s virtually no way of telling whether the palm oil in any particular product has been grown on deforested land, it’s impossible to buy only sustainable palm oil. It’s also difficult to avoid palm oil, as in the ingredients it’s often listed as merely as ‘vegetable oil’.