Palm Oil Questions & Answers

Q -

• What can we do to stop the production of palm oil?

• Who is doing something about palm oil?

• Is there something we can use to replace Palm Oil?

• What makes palm oil so cheap?

• Why do we use Palm Oil in foods?

A -

• Unfortunately, putting a stop on palm oil production everywhere at once is virtually impossible. However, we can put pressure on the companies (including Starbucks, KFC, Pepsi and Pizza Hut) using palm oil in their products. Even Z’s “healthy” biodiesel contains palm oil.

• There are many people doing something about palm oil - Kids Cut Palm Oil, Say No To Palm Oil, Conflict Palm oil, and many others.

• Students at Bath University may have created an alternative. M Pulcherrimma has a similar lipid profile to palm oil. It can produce 20 grams per litre of oil, and doesn’t need sterile conditions to grow, so it can be grown on baths at the campus.

• We use palm oil in foods because it is cheap, has a high melting point and is economically beneficial, but mostly because it is a high quality, cheap vegetable oil.

• GreenPeace is a group of people against Palm Oil and harming wildlife and are the very reason Nestle have changed Kit Kat.

Palm Oil Article

http://www.saynotopalmoil.com/Whats_the_issue.php

http://palmoil.com 

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