Although, to be fair palm oil is a fruit oil. Most of the anti-seed oil people are looking at things like sunflower and rape seed oil, against which there is a lot of pseudo science pushed by grifters
Not only does it destroy entire ecosystems, palm oil is one oil that gives me an upset stomach when I eat it. It's all-around nasty stuff. It didn't help that when I lived on Sumatra I had to breathe all the smoke from the palm corporations burning down the forests.
I remember when palm oil was like Satan b/c it's saturated fat. I worked at Nabisco and we had to get rid of both lard and all palm oil in our products back in the day and substituted them with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Which now is Satan, so I guess everyone is back to palm oil.
Yeah palm oil is the one to avoid, it is also worse for you by miles than canola, safflower, etc. And the environmental impact is gnarly. Coconut oil is not good environmentally either but the hippie grifter class is very hostile to that conversation.
There is, and I am happy to see your comment. It is a shame many people that are commenting on this sort of topic are getting their information from organisations that only give half the story. Sustainably, ethically and with the best intentions too.
Palm oil by some is actually considered one of those good ones since it technically a fruit oil, like olive and avocado. Anti-seed oil gang is all yapping about it being bashed by soy oil cartel.
Yeah, true story. They literally mow down orangutan habitat to plant huge palm plantations for oil. There is ethical palm oil but it's very hard to find. I just avoid it.
Quite a lot of people don't know about it because palm oil isn't sold in stores, but it's the most widely consumed fat/oil in the world. Look at almost any snack food ingredients and it's there, and it's also used to make shampoos, dish soaps, and other detergents.
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It's pretty dang sad.