Genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) are a newer technology that has spread throughout the modern world – in a short time – with little research of long-term efficacy.

”I’m against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That’s wrong, there is plenty of natural, normal good food in the world to nourish the double of humanity. There is absolutely no justification to produce genetically modified food except the profit motive and the domination of the multinational corporations.” – Jean Ziegler, UN human rights envoy and special investigator on the right to food, “U.N. food envoy questions safety of gene crops”, Reuters, 15 Oct 2002

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'Palm oil has been sold to the world as yet another increasingly sustainable and healthy alternative to other vegetable oils. It is now the most widely produced edible vegetable oil globally, passing soybean oil eight years ago. 

Following the repetitive formula which comes out
 of the food industry decade after decade--any time the next big economical, versatile and immensely popular of edible oils come along to be integrated into thousands of food products, inevitably we find out that they're not so great for our health or the environment. Palm oil is no exception from this formula and here's why you need to get this oil out of your diet for good.'

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