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Planet Palm (Hardcover)
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Planet Palm (Hardcover)
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Finalist, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
In the tradition of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, a
groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the
environment and global health--from the James Beard Award-winning
journalist Over the past few decades, palm oil has seeped into
every corner of our lives. Worldwide, palm oil production has
nearly doubled in just the last decade: oil-palm plantations now
cover an area nearly the size of New Zealand, and some form of the
commodity lurks in half the products on U.S. grocery shelves. But
the palm oil revolution has been built on stolen land and slave
labor; it's swept away cultures and so devastated the landscapes of
Southeast Asia that iconic animals now teeter on the brink of
extinction. Fires lit to clear the way for plantations spew carbon
emissions to rival those of industrialized nations. James Beard
Award-winning journalist Jocelyn C. Zuckerman spent years traveling
the globe, from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil, reporting on
the human and environmental impacts of this poorly understood
plant. The result is Planet Palm, a riveting account blending
history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people
whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. This
groundbreaking work of first-rate journalism compels us to examine
the connections between the choices we make at the grocery store
and a planet under siege.
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