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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoDo you have an alternative to suggest that’s less ecologically damaging? I keep hearing complaints about palm oil but I’ve never heard an alternative suggestion that doesn’t involve even more land use.
I think the problem is that all the global “fat” supply have gone into palm oil since it’s low cost and tastes nice, so the scale of it’s production make the problem worse…
so even if the alternatives are worse on paper, splitting the production between them could mitigate the damage maybe?
btw I found this quite comprehensive study
splitting the production between them could mitigate the damage maybe?
Moving half of current palm oil usage to other oils would require about 250M acres of land. Anybody got a spare country or two lying around?
Anyway, production is already split. As I mentioned in another comment, palm oil currently accounts for about 40% of plant oils, while using less than 10% of the land.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You could not eat food with palm oil in it. There’s a suggestion.
Nothing I eat has palm oil in it. I don’t specifically avoid it, but I do avoid processed foods generally, and palm oil is only in processed food.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Avoiding processed foods is certainly a valid option, though not one I see gaining popularity anytime soon.
However, the average detractor isn’t suggesting sweeping diet changes, they’re suggesting buying products using other plant oils, as if that wouldn’t cause even more deforestation if everybody did it.