Planet Palm How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything-and Endangered the World

Finalist, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismIn the tradition of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, a groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the environment and global health-from the James Beard Award-winning journalistOver the past few decades, palm oil has seeped into every corner of our lives. Worldwide, palm oil production has nearly doubled in just the last decade: oil-palm plantations now cover an area nearly the size of New Zealand, and some form of the commodity lurks in half the products on U.S. grocery shelves. But the palm oil revolution has been built on stolen land and slave labor; it's swept away cultures and so devastated the landscapes of Southeast Asia that iconic animals now teeter on the brink of extinction. Fires lit to clear the way for plantations spew carbon emissions to rival those of industrialized nations. James Beard Award-winning journalist Jocelyn C. Zuckerman spent years traveling the globe, from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil, reporting on the human and environmental impacts of this poorly understood plant. The result is Planet Palm, a riveting account blending history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. This groundbreaking work of first-rate journalism compels us to examine the connections between the choices we make at the grocery store and a planet under siege.

ISBN:	9781620975237
Publisher:	The New Press
Imprint:	The New Press
Published date:	25 May 2021
DEWEY:	633.851
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	335
Weight:	590g
Height:	216mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	33mm

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