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mattreb@feddit.it 1 week agoI 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
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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.