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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

The Dark Side of Going Heart Healthy.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

And daily look at the issues Americans care about most, Packaged foods and cosmetics from corn chips and chocolate candy to lipstick and eyeliner

all contain palm oil. It's almost impossible to avoid. It's also hard to exaggerate the damage

from palm oil production, deforestation, increased global warming, abuses of human rights.

But the palm oil industry is growing fast, especially to replace trans fats, now being

eliminated by the FDA to protect consumers from heart disease.

Palm oil is here to stay, so what will it take to mitigate all those destructive tradeoffs?

Today's talking point?

The Supreme Court and voting rights in North Carolina.

First, here's the news.

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Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. Hello again, Wormin-alny, back with To the Point. Eliminating trans fats

from processed foods will remove a cause of heart disease, but replacing trans fats with palm

oil may lead to other destructive consequences, including human rights abuses and climate change.

We'll heard about that. Today's talking point, the NAACP, the ACLU, and the Obama administration are challenging new limits to voting rights in North Carolina.

We'll hear about access to the ballot box in a new era.

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