towards better selves
Mix Fix
Sacrificed
by Isciane Lallement
Avoid palm oil. That is what every responsible consumer has been trying to do for the
last decade. We associate it with fires in the rainforest, sad animals’ faces, special mentions in advertisements. But palm oil is not the only one to blame: the mass production always has a cost. Coconut, olive, Emu oils… All of these are worshiped and used everywhere, sometimes sold as an ideal alternative to palm oil. They are in every cosmetic product, in our plates, in our hair, on our skin. The demand goes higher up each year, but we do not pay the price: others do. For now.
Our current society has the particularity to wrong, dangerous and hurtful, we just say we give everyone access to everything, daily. have no control over it, individually. Humankind Even if people know that over-consumption is has created and taken habits into comfort, and
Palm Oil Production
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