Consumer Products Giants Commit to Deforestation-Free Palm Oil Policies

Yale e360
By Yale Environment 360Mar 25, 2014, 1:20 pm40 pts
Two major consumer products companies — General Mills and Colgate-Palmolive — have committed to using palm oil in their products that does not come from lands cleared from tropical forests, adding to the wave Mongabay.com of corporations that have pledged measures to protect southeast Asian rainforests. The…

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