in Italiano / Italian translated by Federica Sebastiano
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Questi sono i semi della palma da olio, da cui si ricava l’olio di palma. Le palme da olio sono coltivate in molti Paesi dell’Africa e dell’Asia, ma spesso vengono coltivate su terreni che in passato erano foreste pluviali. Le foreste pluviali sono un importante serbatoio di carbonio, un habitat per la fauna selvatica e la dimoradi popolazioni indigene,ma vengono bruciate per far posto alle piantagioni industriali di palme da olio. L’olio di palma è presente in quasi il 50% dei prodotti confezionati nei supermercati britannici, dalla pizza allo shampoo.
In casa vostra c’è qualcosa che contiene olio di palma?
The translation process was extremely straightforward for this text. Almost every sentence could be easily translated word for word, so it wasn’t particularly challenging. The only real change that I have incorporated has been dividing the text into shorter sentences. Notably, I decided to put a full stop after the sentence “often grown on land that was formerly rainforests” to divide the sentence into two smaller ones. In English, it is common to use dashes to add information or clarifications in a sentence, but dashes are not used in Italian punctuation. Therefore, I simply decidedto break up the sentence in two with a full stop and add commas when needed.
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24 Jun, 2023
Notes on culture
There has been a polarizing discourse concerning palm oil in Italy for several years. Many Italian brands have changed their recipes and stopped using palm oil and this change was normally always prominently advertised on the packaging. One of the most surprising exceptions is the brand Ferrero which still uses palm oil in many of its products including the exceptionally popular Nutella. On Nutella’s official website, the company dedicated an entire page to their use of palm oil and states that they are very careful to use only 100% certified and sustainable palm oil that is entirely traceable. Many Italians still decided to boycott Ferrero, but the vast majority still purchased their products. For instance, when the Nutella biscuits were first released in Italian supermarkets, they were flying off the shelves for weeks.
However, in late 2022 there have been some new controversies surrounding the use of palm oil in Nutella. One of Ferrero’s main suppliers of palm oil is the Sime Darby plantation in Malaysia. A recent investigation which came to fruition in the spring of 2022 provided serious allegations of forced labour in the Sime Darby plantation. Therefore, Ferrero decided to discontinue supplies of palm oil from Sime Darby for the time being. It will be interesting to see how Ferrero will respond and if they will ever stop using palm oil. Nutella still remains incredibly popular worldwide but the environmental and societal impact of the product may need to be subject to further scrutiny.