Hallie Parsons

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Title: Palm oil production and the environment
Introduction: Palm oil production and the impacts it has on the environment.

● Supporting Point 1: Yearly, the US consumes or uses about 1.5 million metric tons of
palm oil a year. (Visualized number).

● Supporting Point 2: The countries that use the most palm oil are India (9.2 million tons),
Indonesia (7.3 million tons), the EU (7.2 million tons), and China (5.8 million tons) (Pie
chart).

● Supporting Point 3: Global palm oil production from 1964 to 2014 (Line graph).

● Supporting Point 4: Amount of palm oil harvested in Indonesia from 1970 to 2014 (Bar
graph).

● Supporting Point 5: The food industry is responsible for 72% of the total usage of palm
oil (Isotype).

Conclusion: Palm oil is used all over the world, and is known to be an unsustainable and
harmful practice.
Sources:

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“Palm Oil - What Is It Used for?” Ethical Consumer, 10 July 2019,

www.ethicalconsumer.org/food-drink/palm-oil-what-it-used.

Setiabudi, Peter. “Palm Oil.” SlideShare, www.slideshare.net/petersetiabudi9/clipboards/palm-

oil.

Shahbandeh, M. “U.S. Palm Oil Consumption, 2020.” Statista, 3 July 2020,

www.statista.com/statistics/301032/palm-oil-consumption-united-states/.

Shean, Micheal. “Crop Explorer for Major Crop Regions - United States Department of
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