Oreos, KitKats Among Other Global Brands Fueling Indonesian Forest Fires

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By MongabayNov 10, 2019, 11:31 am392 pts
By Hans Nicholas Jong The makers of Oreo cookies and KitKat chocolate bars are among the companies getting some of their palm oil from producers linked to the fires that have razed large swaths of land in Indonesia, a new report says. The fires, started mostly to clear land for planting, have burned 8,578…

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