Planet Palm

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

Planet Palm
Jocelyn C Zuckerman
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 304pg
13 May 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781787383784
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It' s in our instant noodles and chocolate bars, our lipsticks and fuel tanks. But what even is palm oil, and how has it come to dominate our lives so completely? Jocelyn C. Zuckerman travels across four continents and back two centuries to find answers about the most widely used vegetable oil on Earth. The little oil palm fruit has played an outsized role in world history and economic development. But the multi-billion-dollar palm oil business has been built on stolen land and slave labour; it spurred colonisation and swept away lives and cultures. Today, its fires and mass deforestation generate carbon emissions to rival those of entire industrialized nations, and they' ve pushed animals like the orangutan to the brink of extinction. Combining history, travelogue and investigative reporting, Planet Palm offers an unsettling, urgent look at a global industry that has become an environmental, public health, and human rights disaster.
' In captivating prose Jocelyn Zuckerman sets out in meticulous, spellbinding detail both the colonial-era historical horrors and the trail of modern-day destruction associated with the palm oil industry worldwide. This book will change not just how you shop, but how you see the world. ' -- Mark Lynas, author of ' Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency' ' A carefully researched and gripping book. We cannot tell the story of today' s world without that of colonialism, and we cannot tell the story of colonialism without that of palm oil--this is the story of palm oil. ' -- Joshua Virasami, author of ' How to Change It' ' Jocelyn Zuckerman takes us on a troubling, time-travelling adventure . . . Today palm oil, [with] its intrinsic links to colonisation and slavery, has become ubiquitous in our consumerism culture. Sadly, its non-durable exploitation . . . has had terrible consequences. Not the least among them are global-scale land grabbing and a rapid degradation of our planet. ' -- Pierre Thiam, New York City-based chef and co-founder of Yolele Foods ' Lively and intriguing . . . "Planet Palm" will make you look very differently at the items in your kitchen and bathroom--and at the persistence of poverty and hunger in parts of the world that should be enjoying plenty. ' -- Adam Hochschild, author of ' King Leopold' s Ghost' and ' Bury the Chains' ' Joceyln Zuckerman has crossed the globe and looked back in time to show us how much the appetite for palm oil profit has cost us in human suffering, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity. This extraordinary work of investigative journalism will make you cry and gnash your teeth. It will fill you with rage. Essential reading for everyone who wonders if their food choices matter. ' -- Ruth Reichl, chef, food writer and restaurant critic ' Man-eating pythons, rogue elephants, organised poachers, armed gangsters, corrupt politicians, murderous executives, modern-day slave owners: Zuckerman encounters all of them in this, the first exhaustive investigation of the world' s most environmentally damaging product--something most of us use every day without even knowing it. ' -- Barry Estabrook, author of ' Just Eat' and ' Tomatoland' ' After reading "Planet Palm" . . . I now understand that oil palms represent the darkest underside of late-stage capitalism. This is an ugly story, compellingly told. ' -- Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, Emerita, New York University, and author of ' Unsavory Truth'
James Beard Award-winning journalist Jocelyn C. Zuckerman is the former deputy editor of ' Gourmet' . Her articles have appeared in ' Audubon, The Nation, Vogue' and ' The American Prospect' . She graduated with honours from Columbia University' s Journalism School and was a fellow with the Alicia Patterson Foundation. She lives in Brooklyn.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787383784
Published: 13 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 304

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