Palm Oil: Articles & News
The palm oil’s boycott threatens the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Food and food trade companies that are using “free from palm oil” labels are responsible for this failure. Palm oil is the only supply chain that is making a relevant contribution toward the achievement of the United Nations’ SDGs. It is a value chain […]
A Turkish lesson to the European Union. Nowadays, Turkey gives us lessons on free market economy and consumers’ protection. With the introduction of new guidelines regulating the food sector, Ankara has decided to put an end to ‘free from’ labels due to their misleading and discriminatory nature. Over the years, we have rightfully criticized the […]
In the last years, Colombia, once only known for news related to the narcos, has undertaken concrete reforms to revive the country. One of the many Colombian success stories of the last decade is, undoubtedly, the palm oil industry. To date, Colombia is the largest palm oil producer in Latin America and the fourth in […]
For Free Choice just attended the European Palm Oil Conference 2018 (Madrid, 3-4 October). Pietro Paganini, professor at John Cabot University, intervened to comment on the implications of ‘free from palm oil’ in the market with a focus on the Italian case. You can take a look at Professor Paganini’s presentation by clicking here. Professor […]
Some EU Members, under the pressure of national lobbies, are trying to introduce limits that would harm consumers. Who is behind this proposal? Let’s stop EU Governments that want to harm quality by restricting consumers’ right to choose and enjoy high quality goods and by hindering companies’ entrepreneurial attitude towards good food products. Ask your Government representatives, your […]
NGOs like Greenpeace have understood that cultural weakness of industries can be exploited in order to gather funds to sponsor dangerous campaigns against science. They are a threat to economic prosperity as well as environmental sustainability. Here we go again. When Greenpeace needs financial resources, it always finds a way to fuel pretentious campaigns. Today, […]
Some EU Members are trying to introduce limits that harm consumers. Who is behind this proposal? In politically correct Europe, lobbies of large producers of rapeseed and sunflower oil are preferred to consumers’ health. Quality is sacrificed in order to safeguard the interests of electorally influential farmers and industrial groups. Some EU Member States […]
Greenpeace defamatory claims on deforestation and orangutans are crashed by data and facts in favor of countries like Indonesia and Malaysia. Greenpeace’s petition to ‘stop’ fires in Southeast Asia has, once again, put back the Indonesian forest, its flora and fauna and palm oil, at the center of a heated debate. According to Greenpeace, numerous fires in the […]
Some questions put to Europe’s parliamentarians and bureaucrats who have decided, with the new protectionism, to allow the European Union to commit suicide The choice by the EU to eliminate palm oil from biodiesels by 2030 is suicide, both social and economic. There will be chain reactions, because of this new protectionism, for which Europe will […]
Linking palm oil to cholesterol is an old argument put forward by those who wanted, at all costs, to see it disappear from the face of the earth. Articles, blogs, fake-news, social network campaigns have all invaded the minds of consumers, influencing their choices and making fools of them – don’t eat palm oil because […]