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The Reasons I Loved Trader Joe’s are Why I Avoid It Now

June 24, 2018 by The Ant's Meow in Conservation, Environment

Convenient and delicious foods. Who can object to that, right? But when rainforests equivalent to 300 football fields are being destroyed every hour (according to the World Wide Fund for Nature), and the critically endangered orangutans are being driven toward extinction due to the massively destructive palm oil industry … there’s a reason we should object to foods containing palm oil—no matter how delicious they are. And when the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now estimated to be three times the size of France, the mounting problem of plastic pollution can no longer be ignored. We must abstain from conveniently packaged foods to reduce our single-use plastic footprint.

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June 24, 2018 /The Ant's Meow
conflict palm oil, palm oil, rainforest deforestation, palm oil industry, endangered orangutans, victims of palm oil, effects of palm oil, plastic pollution, single-use plastic, reduce plastic footprint, Trader Joe's, excess packaging
Conservation, Environment
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