Greasy Loot

Ingeborg Altemeier
Germany, documentary, 2002
42 mins. (Beta)
(German with English subtitles)

Palm oil and pal kernel meal are cheap products as an alternative animal feed for the BSE-stricken European market. Indonesian paper factories are deforesting rainforests in Sumatra's national parks in order to meet their demand for raw materials. Palm oil producers are driving the indigenous population away from their land.