"Fast food chain KFC is to stop frying chicken in palm oil.
The company says it is removing the vegetable oil from deep fat friers to gain a "double benefit" by reducing climate change and heart disease.
Used widely as a cooking oil, palm oil employs hundreds of thousands of people in developing countries but has a poor health and environmental record. Forests in Indonesia and Malaysia have been cut down to make way for plantations and the oil is high in artery-clogging saturated fat.
From this month KFC will use high oleic rapeseed oil at its 800 outlets in UK and Ireland, at an estimated cost of £1m a year."
Martin Hickman reports for The Independent April 7, 2011.
Source: UK Independent, 04/07/2011
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