A Minute of Your Time: "Palm Oil In Paradise "

Palm oil seems like the answer to a lot of people's prayers: a useful substitute for the artery-clogging trans fats found in fast foods and other consumables, palm oil helps make tasty food better for you. But eating healthy comes with a steep price tag, because palm oil production, which occurs mainly in Indonesia and Malaysia, happens to rely on heavily destructive cultivation techniques that are destroying what little rainforest remains in those two nations.