Palm Oil: Articles & News
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 […]
Why single out palm oil? It has a lot to do with creating trade barriers and protecting the fragile agriculture industry in Europe that is artificially kept alive on subsidies from the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. Indeed, the EFSA has been quick to pull the trigger. Just recently I read SciDevNet’s article titled “Palm oil […]
Two weeks ago we invited the Environment Minister Gianluca Galletti to endorse the Amsterdam Declaration – read our letter. On early Tuesday, his signature was put on paper. We welcome Environment Minister Gianluca Galletti decision to sign the Amsterdam Declaration. The decision of the Italian Government to join The Netherlands, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norway and […]
We call Minister Galletti to sign the Amsterdam Declaration on sustainable palm oil production. Asking to eliminate palm oil production in order to save forests is misguided. If that were to be done, palm trees would be replaced with other, much less sustainable crops and therefore more harm would be done to forests. Sustainable palm oil […]