Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store
Mwa@thelemmy.club 9 hours ago
i am concerned about foods using anything with palm oil,
but i wonder if its possible to make it more ethically.
and ngl they should put a asterisk near the ingredients section
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
The better question is - what’s the ethical alternative? Every other plant oil uses far more land to grow
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
You seem very insistent on ignoring the fact that different kinds of land have different levels of environmental impact when it comes to farming.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Does that make up for 10x the land usage?
Everybody else seems very insistent on ignoring the different yields of the various plant oils.
Also, as far as I’m concerned it’s just the latest stage of colonialism. First we got exploited by western powers, now we get told we can’t develop our countries. Never mind Europe having destroyed all their wilderness in the process of industrialisation, we’ve somehow been designated the global nature reserve.
You want the land to be left alone? Pay us. No? Are we still just a colony of the west then?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Most people consider learning from the previous mistakes of others to be a virtue and a sign of intelligence.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 hours ago
idk, but i think if there was a more ethical alternative most companies would switch to that
SGforce@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
No company gives a fuck about ethics. They aren’t people. Some people at a company might, but they would have to overwhelm the profit motive. That’s exceptionally rare.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Precisely, there aren’t really any practical options, despite the numerous complaints.