In a nine-month investigation from September 2012 to June 2013 for Bloomberg Businessweek, Schuster Institute Senior Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner, supported by a team of other journalists, reported on labor conditions in the palm oil industry in Indonesia. Skinner learned in his reporting that some producers of palm oil, the most popular vegetable oil in the world which is found in thousands of consumer and industrial products, rely in part on Indonesian contractors using forced labor and underage workers.
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Is there slavery in your supermarket? Popular palm oil linked to slave-like conditions in Indonesia
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