Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store

• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Globally, palm oil occupies approximately 19 million hectares (about 47 million acres) of land.

  Despite supplying over one-third of the world’s vegetable oil, this footprint is remarkably small—using less than 10% of the total land allocated to all oil-producing crops worldwide.

  Where are you suggesting to find another 500 million acres of land, a tad more than the size of Alaska, without environmental impact?

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  • consumptionone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why are you moving the goalposts? In your first post the goal was without further deforestation of rainforests, but in your reply, you changed the goal to without environmental impact. As long as global population growth is a thing, the former is possible, the latter not so much.

    I’ll admit I’m not terribly interested in this topic. I only replied to your comment (at the same time as another commenter making a similar argument) because you come off as a shill for palm oil, which is odd.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not trying to write a thesis and pick exact words here. Let me move the goalposts back.

      Where do you suggest to find 500M acres without deforesting something and driving a few more species extinct?

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      • DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just because a random Internet stranger doesn’t know a better solution off the top of their head, doesn’t mean that there isn’t a problem to be clearly seen.

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