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Our Taste for Cheap Palm Oil Is Killing Chimpanzees

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Manufacturers love palm oil because it’s cheap. Your favorite snacks, cosmetics, soaps, and more likely use it as an ingredient. And thanks to oil palm plantations springing up in Africa, chimpanzees are in danger of extinction.

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