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Have you ever wondered how many sheep and pigs are held on British farms, or the amount of staff employed?
This infographic, produced by livestock-trailer.co.uk, gives you a quick and easy overview about interesting facts and figures making up the farming industry in the United Kingdom.
Palm oil plantations have been popping up rapidly over recent years, but many of them are illegally set-up in natural forest and peat-land and are completely unregulated. Thousands of acres of both primary and secondary forest that are either vital to conservation or the native people are being cleared every year. The trade is thought to now account for up to 10% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions.
This boom has happened mainly over the last 10 years and has made palm oil the most used edible oil today. It is found in thousands of products from chocolate and biscuits to soap and lipstick, but many companies actually have no idea where their palm oil even comes from. Under current European legislation, companies do not have to state if they have used palm oil in their products, instead it can be labelled as vegetable oil!
We have the right to know what is in the products that we use and consume! Help us to change this...
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Bernie the Bear's Animal of the Day 
If you didn't get here quick enough like Simon the Snail, yesterday's featured animal was the 
