Post #1924660
2026-04-05 20:35 UTC
Palm oil = deforestation.
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@ccunning@lemmy.world 2026-04-06 00:04
Nearly all agriculture clears wild land and replaces it with monoculture.
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@Buffalox@lemmy.world 2026-04-05 20:58
Or is that just propaganda to prevent palm oil from taking to much marketshare? You need at least 3 times as much farmland to make an equal amount of any other form of vegetable oil. Most farm oil used in Europe is from sustainable farming, Indonesia makes 50% of the palm oil on the global market, and they claim to have regulated palm oil farming to be sustainable. Palm oil is an excellent oil, it is efficient to grow because of very high yields, and it's been used for thousands of years.