Will This Greenpeace Deforestation Animation Make You Question Your Food Choices?

Emotive spot by Mother highlights the impacts of meat consumption on the environment

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LONDON—When Greenpeace and agency Mother enlisted the actress Emma Thompson to narrate a powerful animated ad exploring the plight of orangutans in 2018, the spot caused a storm, proving so popular that it exploded on social media and was reported widely in the British national press.

The spot, in the style of a children’s story, told the tale of a young orangutan who finds itself in a child’s bedroom, where it begins raising a ruckus upon seeing products made with palm oil.

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