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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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    we make them. with environmental impact because you can’t exist without it, but we do what we can to minimize it yes. We got a shitton of land out in texas that is being used as oilfields. get some environmental remediation out there first to make it suitable for farmland, use some of the grassy areas as well, and there’s a good quarter of that chunk at least.

    and I’d bump that up to like 650million acres, because we’re not using prime farmland to get this oil. yields will probably be less.

    but like, the room to grow this is there.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Ok. Texas is 170M acres. We’ve allocated Texas, that’s 30% of what we need. Which other US states can we sacrifice?

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        i don’t think missouri or mississippi would mind if we sacrificed them

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  • Einskjaldi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The obvious answer is some of the Land used to grow soybeans and corn for animal feed.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      By that logic though, imagine how much land we could reclaim for other purposes (including reforestation) if we shifted more existing farmland towards palm oil.

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not where palms grow.

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