Having lived in SE Asia for a while, it's hard to defend the palm oil industry. Cutting down rainforests, burning peat lands which transform into huge wildfire

Having lived in SE Asia for a while, it's hard to defend the palm oil industry. Cutting down rainforests, burning peat lands which transform into huge wildfires, haze, monocrop plantations as far as the eye can see. That's just the growing side of the business. The milling side is pretty bad too, dumping effluent from the mills. All that being said, the Malaysians and Indonesians are very nice people. It'd be sad to see them adversely impacted.