Palm Oil

Crazy_Dad · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:55 am Post subject: Palm Oil

Please do whatever you can to avoid palm oil products.
Especially unilever products, they use it in icecream and heaps of other products including lipstick.

I spent my honeymoon in Borneo in March 2008 and was just plain shocked at what they are doing there.

There is no excuse from a humanitarian point of view because it is harming humans. Local tribes are being devistated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV6zoz9_Nyk&feature=user

And more required reading on why this is undeniable - and the psychology of it:
http://des.emory.edu/mfp/self-efficacy.html#sct

We went from Kota-Kinabalu to Semporna on a bus and it was ALL palm oil plantations. Even the Eco river tour we did was a fringe of forrest fronting plantations. Here is a map. The white bits are palm oil plantations or towns.
http://impressions.com.my/sabah/sabahinfo/sabahmap.htm

Sepilok Orang sanctuary was a pathetic gesture at best.

How can the world stop this?

This is human toxicity at it's most profound. I've seen it with my own eyes.

Crazy_Dad · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: Re: Palm Oil

I'm sad that there is no discussion on this topic.
I know the amazon is emotive and more local to most readers of these forums.
The south east asia deforestation is in full swing - RIGHT NOW.
It's burning season people. Please discuss.

EDIT: spelling

nocar · Intermediate Crude Joined: Nov 05, 2004 Posts: 685

well, all I can say is that I learned about the destructive oil palm plantations a few years ago. Although my understanding was that it was a favorite of the food industry because palm oil is a healthy kind of fat, not like coconut oil for example (here in Sweden I have noticed people often think coconut palm when they hear oil palm)

Well, my solution was to stick to pure ecological butter for our household fats. No margarine is ever bought anymore. Butter is the local traditional fat in Scandinavia. Our household eats very little processed foods. Except for hubby's daily dish of ice-cream. No telling what goes in there.

When it comes to food, I am not in favor of globalisation. Eat as local as possible.
nocar

Crazy_Dad · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Palm Oil

Thanks nocar,

Check if the icecream is made by Unilever. If it is, don't buy it again.
In fact avoid all of their products. They are one of the most dangerous corporations out there.

dissident · Heavy Crude Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 455

From articles I have read it appears the EU is driving a lot of this palm oil market with "green" biodiesel promotion. This is the EU's version of the ethanol scam. The Amazon and now this shows that humanity is nothing more than a macro bacterial colony infesting the surface of this planet. Just like the microscopic variety in the petri dish, the macroscopic variant will consume itself out of existence.