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Your comment has a lot of assumptions. For example if the choice is between a palm oil biodiesel powered car or an electric one, it makes a difference.
by Gravityloss 7y ago
Your comment has a lot of assumptions.
For example if the choice is between a palm oil biodiesel powered car or an electric one, it makes a difference.
- matthewaveryusa 7y agoExactly, the focus should be on reducing consumption which, like you mentioned, comes down to consumer choice and policy. less biodiesel cars means less demand means less deforestation. Thing is, everything has palm oil in it, so reducing global palm oil demand is akin to reducing global consumption of goods.
- throwbackThurs 7y agoI think we need to change consumer expectation about the products we use. Most of them don't need palm oil at all.
- SamBam 7y ago> Thing is, everything has palm oil in it I feel like this is unnecessarily hyperbolic, unless I'm ignorant about the true spread of palm oil in "everything." This site [1] says that 72% of palm oil is used for food stuffs, all processed foods, which anyone can eat less of. Most of the remainder is in soap products. That doesn't sound like "everything" to me. 1. https://www.palmoilinvestigations.org/about-palm-oil.html https://www.palmoilinvestigations.org/about-palm-oil.html
- adrianN 7y agoThe only product I consume (occasionally) that has palm oil in it is soup concentrate. The trick is not buying processed food.
- scythe 7y agoEven ignoring biodiesel, vegetable oils are in high demand for lubrication, and electric motors use less. Hopefully the switch away from heat engines will decrease overall demand for lubricants and reduce industrial vegetable oil consumption.