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| Protesters enter Unilever factory | Protesters enter Unilever factory |
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| More than 40 environmental campaigners are staging a protest at a Unilever plant in Merseyside. | More than 40 environmental campaigners are staging a protest at a Unilever plant in Merseyside. |
| The group, from Greenpeace, entered the site at Port Sunlight in Wirral on Monday morning to demonstrate against its use of palm oil. | The group, from Greenpeace, entered the site at Port Sunlight in Wirral on Monday morning to demonstrate against its use of palm oil. |
| Merseyside Police have described the demonstration as peaceful. The company has yet to comment. | Merseyside Police have described the demonstration as peaceful. The company has yet to comment. |
| Greenpeace claim the use of palm oil by companies such as Unilever is damaging rainforests in Indonesia. | Greenpeace claim the use of palm oil by companies such as Unilever is damaging rainforests in Indonesia. |
| A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said the force was aware of the demonstration and officers were monitoring the protesters. | A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said the force was aware of the demonstration and officers were monitoring the protesters. |
| A Greenpeace spokesman said the group arrived in two vans at the front and back entrance of the site just before 0700 BST and simply walked in. | |
| 'Controversial' ingredient | 'Controversial' ingredient |
| Some of the protesters were dressed as orang-utans and may have caused a distraction to security, the spokesman said. | Some of the protesters were dressed as orang-utans and may have caused a distraction to security, the spokesman said. |
| Two members of the group were later pictured unfurling a banner above the entrance to Lever House at the site. | |
| The demonstrators are occupying the site in protest at Unilever's use of palm oil in some of its products, such as Persil, he added. | The demonstrators are occupying the site in protest at Unilever's use of palm oil in some of its products, such as Persil, he added. |
| The spokesman said the group would leave "if Unilever agrees to stop buying palm oil from companies who are destroying rainforests". | The spokesman said the group would leave "if Unilever agrees to stop buying palm oil from companies who are destroying rainforests". |
| "We're not against use of palm oil per se, but what we are against is destruction of rainforests to support the palm oil plantations," he added. | |
| Greenpeace is urging Unilever to use its influence to stop palm oil suppliers clearing areas of rainforest to support the crop. | |
| Palm oil is an ingredient in foods and soaps and a bio-fuel added to diesel for cars. | Palm oil is an ingredient in foods and soaps and a bio-fuel added to diesel for cars. |
| The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin said it was a controversial oil because it is often grown on rainforest land in South-East Asia. | The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin said it was a controversial oil because it is often grown on rainforest land in South-East Asia. |