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Calls for ban on palm oil products
Orangutans, tigers and pygmy elephants are three of the species being hit by the increasing use of palm oil.
It's used in everything from pizza to chocolate, shampoo to lipstick.
In Westminster Hll MPs debated a petition signed by more than 80,000 people calling for products containing unsustainably-sourced palm oil to be banned.
Alicia McCarthy reports.
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