"DYING FOR A BISCUIT" --- Monday, 20:30hours on BBC 1 repeated midnight 25 hours
In the UK we consume huge amounts of palm oil, an ingredient found in scores of products including biscuits, fish fingers, cosmetics and toiletries.
In Panorama's Dying For a Biscuit, reporter Raphael Rowe journeys into the rainforest of Borneo, where he uncovers evidence of palm oil companies
cutting down trees illegally and developing plantations on protected land.
This deforestation releases huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the global environment. As the forest disappears, at a rate of two football
pitches every minute, so too does the habitat of man's closest cousins, the critically endangered orangutan.
The Greenpeace UK forest team worked closely with the Panorama team to help them produce it. Watch & Record it! and show it to a friend.
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CHINA- the real culprits. What palm oil used by the supermarkets and unilever is only a drop in the ocean. The real culprits are CHINA. They are using most of the illegal palm oil. They fund the destruction of the rain forests of indonesia. CHINA ,the bullyboy of the world. We should all not buy chinese goods.
I feel it is very easy to blame other people for using up the worlds resorces and escaping from the responsibility we have. we need to put our house in order at the same time.
hibiscus x
CHINA- the real culprits. What palm oil used by the supermarkets and unilever is only a drop in the ocean. The real culprits are CHINA. They are using most of the illegal palm oil. They fund the destruction of the rain forests of indonesia. CHINA ,the bullyboy of the world. We should all not buy chinese goods.
I feel it is very easy to blame other people for using up the worlds resorces and escaping from the responsibility we have. we need to put our house in order at the same time. hibiscus x