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Growing Demand for Palm Oil Drives Malaysia to Employ Child Migrant Workers

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Profitable as it is for multi-national companies, palm oil is extracted at a heavy social and...

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Image from the film by Stephen Sapienza. Borneo, 2012.

First featured on PBS NewsHour.

Steve Sapienza exposes the human cost of palm oil, a cheap ingredient used in many processed foods. In Malaysia, the world's second largest exporter of the oil, producers employ child migrant workers to keep up with demand.