Abstract
In industry discourse, oil palm is praised as a “social and ecological crop” (La agroindustria de la palma de aceite en Colombia, Fedepalma, Bogotá, 2006). Whether palm oil production is really all that social and ecological differs greatly according to what, and whose, criteria are followed.
People that work palm demolish the being that God has created – nature. Large drainages, they don’t care, harming whatever, from where all these riches that God has given us spring, from where all the fruits spring. Because the only thing they want is palm
(Inhabitant of Bajo Mira y Frontera ).
Parts of this chapter have also appeared in Spanish, in an article written for the journal Crítica Penal y Poder (Mol 2016).
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Mol, H. (2017). Reaping the Fruits. In: The Politics of Palm Oil Harm. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55378-8_6
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