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US consumers may be exposed to deforestation-linked palm oil via dairy: Report (news.mongabay.com)

submitted 1 week ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20636883

This indirect use of palm oil is often overlooked in the zero-deforestation accounting process, despite its growing use, according to a report by U.S.-based advocacy group Rainforest Action Network (RAN). The report found that palm oil-based animal feed is now the single largest palm oil product category imported by the U.S., accounting for 36% of all palm oil imports into the country by weight.

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[–] griff@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

read labels before consuming

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, but we're going to need more than that to stop deforestation.

Most of the burden should be on producers and importers, ie to ensure palm oil in their products doesn't come from deforestation.

That's the kind of regulation the EU is going to enforce:

The EU market will, from the end of this year, be subject to a deforestation-free regulation known as the EUDR, which will ban the import of commodities like palm oil and its derived products if they’re associated with deforestation.