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whats your thoughts on this phenomenom?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Came up with this today in the course of a discussion - speaking about the effects of the UK consumer eating food that contains trans-fats - no need for them and only add bulk to the food to the benefit of the manufacturer (moaning about Kraft Food in this instance)
Trans fats come largely from palm oil - grown in cleared forest, often in Indonesia. The palm trees replace local farmers potential land with a cash crop that benefits very few people locally and has no other impact to the local economy other than to displace families and introduce fertilisers and chemicals for pest control.
the products have to be manufactured (power shortages), packed (more loss of woodland for the boxes?), stored - transported to towns through roads that wern't tere in the first place, then shipped to the food manufacturers point of use - hello Mr CO2
The other effect is to deplete the habitat for orang-utangs - and you don't need to be a monkey loving hippy to realise that once the forest goes, the people can't return to a 'dead' area and with no forest - no species can survive that has been there for millenia.
All because I want a biscuit with my tea.......so spot the chain of effects - it isn't a theory........
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