KUALA LUMPUR, February 6 (WNM/Reuters/A. Ananthalakshmi/Mei Mei Chu) - Malaysian palm oil industry officials urged the government to take action against environmental groups critical of the commodity, with one executive calling them "toxic entities". The cultivation of palm oil, which is used in everything from ice cream to lipstick, is blamed for large scale deforestation in Southeast Asia and for endangering wildlife, such as orangutans and pygmy elephants. Indonesia and Malaysia are the top two ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...