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Re:Mondelez cuts ties with 12 palm oil suppliers, citing def... by CompelTechnic on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:53PM (#18452652)
I'm relatively certain that I (in the U.S.) have never purchased any oil labeled as "vegetable" oil that gave any indication it may contain palm oil.

Is there oil labeled as "vegetable oil" that contains palm oil? Or is there another reason you think it should be avoided?

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Re:Mondelez cuts ties with 12 palm oil suppliers, citing def... by ip26 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:08PM (#18452833)
He's not really talking about bottles of vegetable oil used in cooking. He's talking about products that use sneaky labeling to either hide the palm oil or make formulation flexible- e.g. if the nutrition label lists "vegetable oil", they can make the product using whatever vegetable oil is convenient that day.
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