Dark stain on $65 billion industry. Child labor has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry, identified as a problem by rights groups, the United Nations and the U.S ...

Indonesian palm oil exports to the United States may fall due to the 32% tariffs threatened on Indonesian goods, allowing ...

Child labor has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry. Though often denied or minimized as kids simply helping their families on weekends or after school, ...

Palm oil – with its high yields and low cost ... could theoretically have a profound impact in the long battle to remove the stain of environmental destruction from palm oil’s supply chains.

Palm oil contains about 50% saturated fat, which increases "bad" LDL cholesterol. But it is better for you than other tropical oils like coconut oil.

Palm oil: economic lifeline, but environmental stain. Palm oil, in particular, illustrates both the promise and the peril of biofuels. Palm oil is the most productive land-based lipid crop, ...

Health concerns surrounding trans fats led many food manufacturers to abandon partially hydrogenated oils. Palm oil has helped fill the void. But guess what? It's high in saturated fat.

Palm oil is very cheap to make and the palm tree it comes from produces more oil than many other kinds of plant. It is used in around 70% of make up because it doesn't have a strong smell and very ...