By passing the RED II Directive the European Union has once again shown its hypocrisy. While MEPs and Lobbies cheer, EU citizens and small businesses will pay the price The EU bans the use of palm oil in biofuels by 2020 but saves all the other vegetable oils, such as soybean, sunflower and rapeseed. These crops […]
Asian growers respond to the chatter of desperate European lobbies with facts The Journal of Oil Palm, Environment & Health has presented Building a Sustainable Future Together: Malaysian Palm Oil and European Consumption, a document, aimed at the European Commission, Parliament and institutions, that dismantles all the accusations made against Asian producers contained in the […]
The “palm oil free” label now found on a huge variety of food products is the result of a purely commercial operation with the clear aim of shaking up a market that has been sluggish for years now. By getting rid of an ingredient, companies are convinced they will be able to win over slices […]
The palm oil free claim is a decoy. It is now so apparent that to have admitted this are the very companies that have used it as a marketing tool. In fact, the “palm oil free” label deceives consumers into thinking that the product has improved. But this is not always the case. The palm oil free claim is a […]
KLM sticks with sustainable palm oil. The Dutch airline has asked its suppliers to only use sustainable palm oil. The aim is to combine the protection of the forests to the promotion of sustainability with the quality that palm oil guarantees. EU Parochialism Many EU companies – with the usual parochialism – abandon palm oil purely for […]
Disinformation won and Science lost: the EU Parliament’s Industry, Research & Energy Committee voted to endorse the ban on palm oil biofuels in Europe. Most likely, European vegetable oils corporations are trying to push out palm oil from the Common market and keep for themselves all the benefits. On 28 November 2017, the EU Parliament’s Industry, […]
PAYWALL.- The West has launched a veritable war against palm oil. Although the aim of this unscrupulous attack is commercial, its implications are both economic and social. Despite the instigators being clearly identifiable, palm oil has fallen prey to what in Italy is usually referred to as the Artichoke Strategy: there is no real heart, but […]
The indiscriminate use of the “palm oil free” claim, that appears on the packaging of food products, risks fooling citizen consumers into making the wrong choices. A comparative analysis of the nutritional values appearing on the packaging of 60 products demonstrates that “palm oil free” product labels do not match lower levels of saturated fats. Palm oil […]
In recent years, the national and international scene was dominated by unjustified attacks against palm oil. This smear campaign caused several changes in the formula of many food products. One of the main issue was the refining process of raw palm oil that could lead to the formation of contaminants. However, a new study confirms […]
In September 2016, WWF Germany’s launched the study “Palm Oil Report Germany: Searching for Alternatives”, which points out that replacing palm oil with other oils is not a solution for environmental degradation. The study states that replacing palm oil with other vegetable oils, especially soy or coconut ones, requires more land. Thus, it would produce a […]