The Body Shop is breaking commercial links with a major palm oil supplier in the wake of disclosures by the Observer that the company had pushed for the eviction of hundreds of peasants in Colombia to develop a new plantation. This newspaper reported last September that Daabon Organic...was part of a consortium that asked the courts to remove farmers from a ranch 200 miles (320km) north of the capital, Bogotá. The Body Shop said that, after a nine-month inquiry, it had terminated its relationship with Daabon...Manuel Davila, chief executive of the Daabon Group, said: "It took the Body Shop almost nine months to analyse and evaluate the situation. How can they expect us to solve the issue in two months?"