Your favourite pizza dough, detergent, lipstick, chocolate, and biodiesel have something in common: Most of these products contain palm oil.

Palm oil comes from the fruit on tropical oil palm trees. Producing the edible oil wreaks havoc on the environment, leading to deforestation, habitat degradation, and loss of animal habitat. The World Wildlife Fund estimates that an area about the size of 300 football fields is cleared each hour in tropical rainforests for palm oil production.

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