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‘Rivers flowing with oil’ may conjure up a rather unpleasant image, especially if we imagine the meandering ‘oil’ in question is the thick black crude oil synonymous with environmental incidents, if not disasters. However, what if that oil streaming down the waterway is ‘palm oil’?
For those who perhaps don’t know, palm oil is a safe to eat vegetable oil that comes from the reddish fruit pulp of the oil palm. It is widely