Mon, Sep-19-16, 14:20
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Plan: Atkins/paleo/natural
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Hello this is my first time posting on this site and this seems like a fitting subject for my first post.
Palm oil in my opinion does steam like an interesting cooking product and something that I would like to experiment with. I have scanned many West African recipes and you truly cannot begin to properly prepare West African food unless you are ready to use palm oil, because it is one of the essential building blocks of African flavor. Perhaps it is something that one has to acquire a taste for but in the African continent they absolutely love it!
Unfortunately, there's a whole nother' side to this discussion that is extremely unfortunate and therefore renders me VERY apprehensive in even attempting to be involved in the purchase of this product. Unless I can see that the oil was obtained by a responsible and sustainable grower, then I will not be involved.
Palm oil production, weight for weight, is responsible for more deforestation/carbon emmisions/human and animal suffering than any other crop on this planet!
Due to the fact that; "Today, around 50 percent of the goods we use every day contain palm oil, from processed foods to candles, grooming products and “biofuels”(Rainforest-rescue.org)". A previous poster stated that any "good quality" nut butter has no such ingredient and they are correct, however, that hold absolutely zero bearing on what the rest of the world consumes. You will likely rarely find the words "palm oil" in any ingredient list, why you ask? Due to the fact that the USA, Britain, and many other first world nations know for a fact what is happening but they still want the oil. So, since they don't want to deal with the backlash from enviromental groups they passdd a law that makes it legal for them to list it as "vegetable oils and fats" therefore, you will most likely never even know if it is in your "organic nut butter" or not!
Due to the fact that this plant needs a tropical "rainforest like" atmosphere to grow, our rainforests bear the brunt of their quest for money. Vast swathes of rainforest are taken out DAILY to make room for the more profitable palm oil tree.
"Today, rainforest area the equivalent of 300 soccer fields is being destroyed every hour. (Rainforest-rescue.org)"
The fact is, the production of this oil is an absolute plague to our planet and the very future of earth as we know it, it truly is that bad!
I really hate to come off so preachy but you guys certainly seem like you are concerned abd aware citizens of this planet and definitely care about health. So I figured that since no one else brought it up that it was important to at least make people aware. If you do want to buy palm oil just make sure you buy it from brands that are trustworthy and listed as sustainable and organic....and who can be trusted as such lol
Thanks for your time guys and I hope some of you find this information important!!!
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