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By Emily Mosher
Have you ever eaten a potato chip? A cookie? How about washing your hair, ever use shampoo? Over 50 percent of packaged foods in grocery stores contain palm oil, a product derived originally from the jungles of West Africa. The oil is taken from the flesh of the palm oil fruit, by pressing the seeds together and gathering the chemicals collected from this process. The problem with this common ingredient, is that the plants that the oil comes from can only be found in jungles, jungles where non-human animals, specifically orangutans, live and depend on these trees to survive.
By Megan Serratore About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. The other 30% makes up the seven continents that over seven billion humans call home. However, an astounding half of the land in the world is devoted to cattle and other livestock production. The production of animals who are used for food, particularly cattle, has an immense toll on the environment. Although the amount of cow meat consumption is fairly consistent in developed countries, such as the United States, recent trends show that cow meat consumption is on the rise in developing nations.
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