Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a Malaysian, one of the world’s leading exporters of palm oil, no it fucking doesn’t. Source ethical if that’s a concern, but don’t tar the entire industry with the same brush.

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well probably because Customs and Border Protection banned one of your biggest palm oil producers from the U.S market

    reuters.com/…/how-forced-labour-land-grabs-remain…

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry, not anymore what?

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      • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is indeed child labor though

        In Malaysia, the most recent government survey in 2018 estimated 33,600 children aged 5–17 working in the oil palm industry—60 per cent of them or nearly 20,000 in Sabah.

        unicef.org/…/progress-achieved-more-needed-end-ch…

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