Thinking about things of I have read on here and other social media and realise that many people are not buying anything with palm oil in but that is a mistake.
Last night we were chatting with a man from WWF and got onto this subject. He reminded me of a news item I had seen about growing palm oil. It is a good thing to do and is a much more environmentally friendly crop to produce than many of the alternatives, if it is grown sustainably. The issue arises when forests are destroyed to grow it inefficiently.
So we should be looking at where producers buy their palm oil rather than refusing to buy anything containing it. If we stop buying it altogether we will be doing more damage than we are at present.
I googled it and found: 6gupp2m546k1gbxng1rlf2m3-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/SustainablePalmOilShoppingList-v2Aug2018.pdf
and {https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/nov/26/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-sustainable-palm-oil} if you don't want to read the whole article:
9. Consumers should not boycott palm oil
They should boycott unsustainable palm oil. McCoy says: “Palm oil is an incredibly high-yielding vegetable oil, which means that anything replacing it will have to use more land - that does not solve the issue of deforestation and associated land use change. Better to get palm oil production ‘right’ to avoid leaking the issue elsewhere to another commodity.”
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