Palm oil: scourge of the earth, or wonder crop? The Conversation

By  Denis J Murphy, University of South Wales, July 1, 2015

If you happen to mention palm oil to most people outside of Asia you are unlikely to get a particularly positive reaction.

Over recent years, media coverage of palm oil has typically included images of displaced orangutan and burning, degraded tropical forests. There has been a feeling that palm oil is an evil that needs to be stopped. Indeed, in some of the richer countries there have been attempts to organise consumer boycotts of palm oil products ranging from cosmetics to chocolate.

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