What's your take on Palm Oil? Do you try to avoid products because of it?

I really appreciate how you always consider multiple perspectives and don't unnecessarily sensationalize the information that you share. This is how we should be discussing these kinds of complex subjects.

European and american talk about environment, but in the other hand export rubbish to South East Asia Country by container

we asian see its as a way to protect your gmo soy bean oil, corn oil, sunflower oil etc. yeah u can blame asian country for deforestation while you westerner can enjoy vast uncontrol development. in malaysia felda and felcra and others ethically handle palm oil plantation without compromise to the environment. so blaming all the planters in not the way.

Could you do a video on synthetic leather versus real leather regarding sustainability and emissions?

So technically the problem with everything we humans do is how we get rid of it in the wrong way.

As mentioned in the video, palm oil is the most land efficient way to produce vegetable fat. Boycotting products containing it will only result in the production of more land intensive oil crops such as sunflowers. The underlying problem here as always is population growth, with most palm oil consumption actually occurring in Asia due to its relative affordability.

I think we should minimize consuming milk/meat from New Zealand too.. Huge land cleared used for cattle grazing.

You can also donate to charities that help educate farmers and fisherman on sustainable practices. Rainforest alliance, the nature conservancy, tree for the future, etc.

If we replace palm oil to soya oil will it harm to environment too?

Happy that you gave a balanced perspective on this issue! Palm oil is problematic when it is grown in the conventional way, but boycotting it is NOT the answer, as mentioned in the video. On a per hectare basis, oil palm trees are 6-10 times more efficient at producing oil than others like rapeseed, soybean, olive and sunflower. What can we do as consumers? Support products that use RSPO CERTIFIED Palm Oil, which means that it has been grown with certain environmental and social considerations in mind!

It is not the duty of Southeast Asians to clean up an atmosphere that was damaged by 200 years of Euro-American industrialisation. Even the palm plantations themselves were introduced by colonial processes, and it is the people of Southeast Asia who have suffered the worst consequences of the environmental devastation. The reorganization of land use in Southeast Asia will proceed differently. Although palm diesel will die, the conversion of mono crop lands to more enlightened uses will certainly embrace red palm as a central food resource serving, first, local interests. Southeast Asian products sold as commodities in the West without internalizing environmental costs will become staples locally, while in the West these goods will be distributed as luxuries that subsidise true environmental equity. This is the way non exploitative processes will undo the damage of the past few hundred years. Do you understand now?

Growing up in Sarawak, a large state in Malaysia, I often travel long distances for family and my parent's work. The sheer scale of how much forest is lost, is hard to see for any one individual. My parents work in healthcare so I followed them moving from city to deep inland towns and villages to city. I have to say everywhere has been terraformed for palm oil since the early 2000s. From the seashore swamps of Miri and Mukah to the deep mountains of Belaga and Kapit(my parents were stationed at the west in my early childhood, the inland mountains during middle childhood and the east during teenage years and we frequently traverse the whole state for holidays because my parents came from opposite ends of the state). Every. Every district there are huge and I mean huge plantations of palm oil trees. Though now you can't see pass 5m into the plantation because the trees are huge now but when the land is still bright red and bare, the red soil goes endless. Now you can see plantation that can go on and on for kilometres just from the main highway. Recently my uni brought in people from the palm oil plantation sector. It seems their projections will still increase for a couple more decades (25yr). That means more land will be converted for oil. They said they are striving for"balance" between the ecosystem and production. I did ask essentially what are the doing with the people who are planting more than they should. He said they wouldn't even have license for the plantation work and there are bodies that try to stop it. But everyone knows they do nothing or not even enough to stop anything. And for my question I got a bag of goodies with imitation Oreo, keropok (chips), and wafers. Hippie powers of the 80s and 90s doesn't hold a candle to today's ruthless cooperation. Captain planet would be disappointed

Palm tree is actually a rain forest plant..We still have tigers,elephants, boar and different type of birds in the plantations. On the other hand Europe don't even have forest for them to save. Don't tell me they never cut down any trees to plant olive,soy or sunflower...

I'm from malaysia..and I strongly disagree with your video, palm is the main crop for this country and it's getting better..we are not doing open burning and we just cut down the forest to replace it by planting palm trees by adopting mspo principles .. your statement can cause many smallholders to spend every single point in their perspiration

As a son of a small holder whom his wages hugely depends on palm oil plantation, all i can say palm oil has changed our family from low income into middle income family. My dad can afford our education untill we went to university, better house and upgraded our life’s quality. Recent boycott on our palm oil industry, has affect my dad’s income so much, and he has to cut all his expenses. Those who are not come from farmers background may not understand and criticised palm oil. In fact, these crops has fed us and gave us education since we were kid. They should realised the one that destroys the forest mostly are greedy big firms, not small holders.

The yield per hectare produced by palm oil is 18.5 tonnes, whereas soybean is 0.4 tonnes per hectare. Hence, palm oil uses less land to produce oil which in turn would need less amount of forests to be cleared.

Being from Malaysia and my parents being diplomats, one of which is working here in Germany currently I've heard about the complex situation of palm oil. I know how the burning of forests has affected us back home (I currently live in Berlin), every year we would have to deal with haze, and the smell of burning I remember back in 2015 school had to close cuz the air was too unfit to breathe and no one could go out and do sports. Though I think the burning of forests has gone down drastically at least (I remember my mum talking about an agreement about no more burning forests to make way for palm oil plantations), I know that the haze still persists back home. The complex issue now is that due to our last prime minister, Malaysia's economy is trying to recover from the huge debts he has caused and we are pretty reliant on palm oil as it is our main exporter. I do agree that western countries should probably help develop more sustainable efforts, since you guys are the one driving the demand. But with the whole mentality of not caring since its far away and its a less developed country so lets exploit its cheap labour (which has also been done with dumping the west's waste (though many SEA nations are cracking down on that too).

How can you promote diversity in your community? From different categories. 1 Less discrimination because of your religion view. 2 Having the option for your child to speak a foreign language. 3 People who already speak a foreign language. 4 How can you promote a mixing pot culture. 5 How do you bring every walk of life to your town if that's possible. 6 The community to stop discrimination of some of these color of skin. #1-6 Questions?

when they hate competition. they just need to demonize their competitor

Today indonesia government stop giving the permit for big company to expand and doin any deforestation for palm oil plantation anymore, they only have to do a replanting, wich mean after 25 years, the palm tree get lowest the productivity, and you replanting it with the new one. and do you know what?, palm oil sector is one of the highest income for the indonesia country right now, every fcking single year. And also do you know what? In my country indonesia, here is a million people hanging their lives in this industry, some a worker for big company, some of them own the small land and sell the fruit into the company, and do you know what? After EU made a statement late 2018 about this banning idea, the price of palm oil decrease more than 100% and never get increase anymore, do you know what that mean? That mean million people going to suffering right now, this is just number for you, but can you imagine their children? Their family? This million people also made the government of Indonesia, Malaysia,& another country that have palm oil income had one word and tell if EU just doin a black campaign into palm oil industry, and the banning industry is non-sense, also have political reason behind it, like u said EU have sunflower and another vegetable oil plantation, but is that really can cover the palm oil demand? the impact is very dangerous, can you imagine? Im telling you something, palm oil industry is the one and the only industry that need the sustainable sertificate, the one and only. Mining industry? Not, another vegetable oil? Not. I know it sounds like we monopoli the industry, but if you do another research and you already told in the video, palm oil is the biggest source of oil more than other vegetable oil /ha. Its efficient, real efficient. CPO Banning by EU sounds like them jealouse to our yellow, asian, that can produce a massive efficient low prices vegetable oil. Right now our government working hard to fight against the black campaign made by EU, by making alot of research and tell the world is our Palm Oil Plantation is sustainable and have the same mission as UN SDGs 2030. By the way im son of palm oil farmer, my father have 3 Ha palm oil plantation, very small one. Every month before the EU made banning statement my family income is some like IDR 3.500.000 but after the EU statement its only less than IDR 1.500.000 and today? Less than IDR 1.000.000 ( you can check exchange rate on the google), imagine how can live with it? The issue about negative effect of palm oil is already fix by government itself, and i think its already finish, lets see the future by thinking the small people like us, stop spread hates, stop discriminating, i know asian look like monopoli the industry, but its not made by a night, its happen from 40ish year ago, there is alot of different president, a lot of different law change, a lot of different politican take the wheel. but today we change it, we focus on it, we working on sustainable palm oil industry. Please stop discriminating palm oil. Its not resolving the problem, its not helping. discriminating only make it worse, im dead serious right know. I hope you read it. South Borneo, 9 july 2019.

32 000 Swimmingpools is a weird way to demonstarte the amout of co2. A comparison to a country or the amount of cars that produce this amount would be better. But nice video, keep it up

It’s really sad to see palm trees taking over rainforest in my country

RSPO or Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is a great initiative from the different stakeholders in palm oil production chain, setting environmental and social criteria for a sustainable production. Products that source their palm oil from certified farms can use the RSPO certificate on their packaging, so choosing for these products really encourages the sector to make the transition to sustainable agriculture. Feel free to look it up on the internet, and use your power as a consumer to demand companies to switch to sustainable palm oil. Contrary to what most people think, Ferrero (producer of e.g. Nutella) uses 100% RSPO certified palm oil in their products, but they don't use this in their marketing, which really is a shame. If you want to make a difference, send an email to Ferrero (and many other companies) asking for them to use the RSPO label on their products so this initiative gets the attention that it needs! And always choose for products with the RSPO label!

I'm guessing you mention shampoo and all the other products that have sneaky chemical names but are really all palm oil.

Malaysia's forest land stands at 67%. US 33%. So probably shouldn't preach too much about deforestation. Palm oil is so efficient that our little corner of the world can provide for 90% of the entire world's consumption. The trade off for palm oil is simply a less efficient, more land consuming substitutes.

Palm oil is the most productive vegetable oil crop. Replacing palm oil with other types of vegetable oil (such as sunflower, soybean or rapeseed oil) would mean that much larger amounts of land would need to be used, since palm trees produce 4-10 times more oil than other crops per unit of cultivated land. This would result in serious environmental damage, with the risk that more forests would need to be converted into agricultural land, while livestock and beef production has led to more than five times the amount of deforestation, compared to palm oil. In producing countries, millions of farmers and their families work in the palm oil sector. Palm oil plays an important role in the reduction of poverty in these areas. In south east asia, more than 4.5 million people earn their living from palm oil production. Stopping the production of palm oil altogether would create significant problems for these people who support their families by working in this industry. Replacing palm oil with other types of oil is not always feasible due to palm oil’s unique properties as food ingredient. Using other oils would not give the products the same texture and taste that palm oil offers.

If you try to look outside of the palm oil industry, the majority of global land is used for animal production. A famous new study has shown that if the whole world went vegan, our land use would shrink by 76%. So a reduction of the consumption of animal products would greatly relieve our planet, and would also perhaps open up new places for palm oil to grow? Of course we need to reduce our consumption of palm oil, but the most necessary reduction is about animal products.

Hi, I am from Riau Province, the Indonesian province with the largest palm oil production. In term of environmental sustainability, it is true that we need to increase number of yields per hectares. In Riau, some of this palm oil farm are mismanaged. So instead of increasing productivity per hectares, many farmers (including corporations) decide to increase the land instead cutting down more trees. Back in 1990s, we often get a news of forest fires. But now in 2010s, the news is becoming a land slash-and-burn fires... because we barely have any forest left. Though, I cannot deny the economy behind it. I was able to take Master Degree in Australia because of palm oil money earned by my father. But, I do know it is not right way to do it in the long run. I believe there is changes in Indonesia, because in 2015, Riau people experienced their worst haze since 1997. Some people were died as well, schools were closed for weeks. Airports were closed for most day in a month. Economy was crippled... the mood towards palm oil will change among younger generation.

I really wish KZfaq had an awards system like Reddit. If there was, I'd give you platinum. You've talked about all the aspects and cited all your sources, and the video skills themselves are amazing. Thanks for enlightening all of us.

palm oil is used instead of cocoa butter in chocolate. i hate the way chocolate tastes now except for lindt chocolate because it doesnt use palm oil

There's many errors in this video which need correction if you want to be taken seriously. Majority of buyers of palm oil are in Asia not western nations, in following order: India, EU28, China, Pakistan, Egypt, Bangladesh, USA.

"There is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism"- something always suffers.

How to save sunflower oil, soyabean oil industries? Make Documentary on how palm oil is destroying forest..

Palm Oil is incredibly productive, the yield you get vs other types of oils is massive and those other industries are fighting against it. Here he is only talking about Malaysia and Indonesia but doesn't talk about other places in the world that have been cut down for meat production for example. Researching about this topic I got interested in seeing if there is someone in America producing it in an environmental friendly manner. There is one in south east Mexico, in the are of Palenque, Chiapas. They recovered land that was used for growing cattle and turned it into palm oil plantations, bringing back moisture to the soil and some flora and fauna and other microorganisms. They even have the RFA (rain forest alliance) certification. So not everyone is doing business the wrong way. It sounds very hypocritical to only talk about this business and forget about other types that are in Europe, USA and South America and that also destroyed many forests to grow olives for olive oil or build new Cities.

I am Indonesian. The high rate of deforestation in Sumatera and Kalimantan happened because government regulations and the implementation of these regulations are not strictly enforced To slow down deforestation, strict rules on forest use for oil palm plantations must be implemented imo In Indonesia itself, the government has received a lot of pressure from the community regarding this issue. Demonstrations in various areas have occurred many times. But the response from the government is low. Also, related to this problem there are also many cases of criminalization and arrests of environmental activists who oppose clearing forests for oil palm plantations. It is what it is. Maybe, implementing strick regulation over palm oil industry is the solution to its environmental impact

malaysian here. currently the newly appointed government is trying their hard to convince buyers that palm trees are planted...sustainably here. the thing is, some does and some does not. it depends. and the gov started to take actions because the people told the gov that no this shit is not ok you must do something. hope, this will continue.

Your videos are so informative! I’m wondering if you’ve done any research on UBI and the impact that it could have on our global climate? With people not having to satiate Westerners, could we have a brighter future?

I have stopped using any products that contain palm oil unless it says on the packaging that the palm oil is sustainable. The reason I did it was for the deforestation of the rainforests but if everyone stopped using products that contain palm oil then like you said, small farmers will lose all of their money that they invested into palm oil plantations. I think if some companies can use sustainable palm oil then can’t they all? If they can then we would be helping our planet and our fellow humans!

Not in Malaysia though. In Malaysia the land used for Palm Oil Plantations are re-used. They were formerly rubber trees our ancestors planted. So no, palm oil doesn't cause deforestration. Well, at least not in Malaysia. Our government struggles to make sure of it. :D

Why is no one mentioning how smooth and fluid your videos are? Your animations are so on point. Top class.

I wonder olive tress doesnt need land clearing before planting the trees?

In the same time on the opposite of Earth, Amazon are being clear for soya farming.

I guess the main issue is not how we can find ways to save the earth from ourselves but to find ways to restrain our greed and the ever increasing thirst for more our materialistic demand.

Hey OCC, how many percent of palm oil trees are owned by corporations? Thanks :)

Is funny you said that palm oil is the biggest deforestation issue. Look, Malaysia + Indonesia land used are not even a quarter size of your european countries. You guys already flattened your land long ago and you guys keep quiet about it. Hypocrite! I think this video is made by those fossil fuel companies.

No way. DON'T TRY TO DISCRIMINATION OUR PALM OIL.YOU WILL SEE WHAT WE WILL DO TO OUR FUTURE. IF WE ARE COMPARED WITH SUNFLOWER OIL IT'S NOTHING. OUR PALM OIL WAS ON THE TOP!!!!

Indonesian here , Choosing palm oil as a cash crops is a right choice because of its high yield unlike Soybean,Rapeseed,etc. Although heavy deforestation in Sumatra but indonesia still retain a high cover of forest in another islands even more than 90% of intact forest cover in Papua . To stop more deforestation, Goverment must stop any new concessions and review all existing concessions.

It's great that you're discussing this, but by not mentioning it you do a great disservice to poor countries of Africa that produce sustainable and healthy "red palm oil."

I think there also sustainable palm oil base product.

I feel that the key issue here is not so much on palm oil itself but how it is grown. Burning down the forests for palm oil plantations is a huge pollution to the environment, got to do it with more environmental friendly methods.

The EU banning Oil Palm would be the worst mistake it can make. Responsibly produced oil palm (I am not going to name any certification scheme) only accounts about 20% of the global oil palm market share, and the EU is the primary consumer for responsibly produced oil palm. Banning oil palm in the EU will mostly punish those who made the efforts to do it the right way, but not the rest 80% who don't even care.

Hey occ,i was wondering if you could make a video about 4ocean and if it's legit?because lately I've been seeing their bracelet everywhere

Humanity's thirst for profits has destroyed our Environment

I live in FL. Use coconut oil almost exclusively (local high quality). Also, the oil can be harvested from live trees without environmental damage. The trees help the ecosystem and keep the tide from washing away all the sand on the beach heads. Bald eagles and at risk birds nest in them. We planted a bunch in my area with sea oats and sea grapes - all edible and create the base for ecosystems. I've thought about extracting vegetable protein from the sea grapes to sell as a supplement? No Palm Oil in my kitchen or in my complex.

oil palm produce 40 tons per hectare and soy and other europ vegetable oil produce about 3-5 tons per hectare...we should ban europ product right??

I just saw a TV story about a German scientist who tries to use another oil tree which can potentially grow anywhere on the world. They just have to investigate on the quality of the oil and how to get the yield higher. Maybe something like that would be also part of a better solution.

i am a oil palm farmer. small holder and maybe, after western ban oil palm, i will be a bankrupcy. thaks for europe and western becouse make our village farmer hurt and many people now desperate and be a criminal. (bad english from a malay village farmer.)

With time, tend to disagree with WWF on many subjects. How can they say that lowering demand (by boycotting) isn't effective? How is waiting for governments and corporations to do something, or becoming an activist and risking your life? I've been boycotting many things in the last few years, and even though I don't really see the improvement on a global scale, I think it's the best I can do, considering the risks.

very informative. recently in Malaysia, an international school is being investigated for spreading some sort of palm oil propaganda. this video helped shed some light on helping me understand why it’s a big deal.

Another great video, thank you! But please reconsider the excessive use of motion graphics. They are very distracting and often add no value to the content of your videos. Two examples: Minute 2:05 until 2:18 - these circles have NO MEANING but look like pie charts. You are talking about a percentage and my first reaction was "ah right, he's going to compare the Indonesian statistics to other countries" - but, no. On the other hand, around minute 3:00 you have a statistic that SHOULD have been shown on a timeline (1990-2010), but instead the emissions are just, uh, switched out? No offense and you are doing a great job and clearly have remarkable video editing skills, but for me personally, some of these animations are distracting and unhelpful.

Here in Italy many brands have started to sell their products without palm oil and they put that claim on their packaging. But instead of this being seen as a step forward, most people complain about it, saying that they don’t care and that it’s “shoved in their face”. The fact that most people aren’t aware of the environmental impact palm oil has doesn’t help either. They just think it’s been removed for health purposes

I'm French and it's a shame for me that my country accepts that Total add palm oil to petrol for car. Production of a bio-carburant with palm oil has begun near Marseille...

The thing is: all crops can be ethically and sustainably produced. From soybean to palm trees. What we need is a strong regulation of these productions so theres no (or little) products offered that were grown in rainforest areas. The problem is this association between government and big companies. While little producers and associations struggle to do the right thing - and end up with little profits - big companies break multiple environmental laws without any consequences and offer criminally cheap products.

Theres no Sustainable rapeseed/sunflower/soybean oil certified. But why europe bann palm oil with sustainable certified? HYPOCRITE

Oil palms are a plague here in Sri Lanka too. Politicians advocate for this plantation island wide replacing our rubber cultivation. Though more economically viable it ruins the environment and ground water supplies.

The complications associated with boycotting is something I’ve really been thinking about lately. A lot of products the global north has built unsustainable demand for are directly employing millions in the global south (like in the garment industry or tourism). I really like what you said about slow withdrawal & working inside communities. It always comes back to the question: do we need to transition to a sustainable economy as fast or as just as possible? Or is this is false choice & we can do both. IDK, but big issues start with people like you talking about them. :)

Palm oil is grown in most impoverished regions of the world like Africa and south east Asia. Millions of people depend on palm oil for their livelihood. Stopping this highly productive oil (best land to oil ratio) will not only ruin their living conditions but also create environmental havoc. More land will be needed to serve global oil needs if we were to convert back to to any other vegetable oil. The way forward is to promote and produce sustainable palm oil that cares for environment and local population.

Hey Our Changing Climate (dont know your name sorry lol) where do you get your stock footage from?

The broblem USA and Europe can't produce the palm oil, LoL

This oil( red palm oil ) is sustainable (because it has a high yield) and withstands high temperatures, without becoming toxic \ cancerous, like canola, soy oil, corn oil, olive oil and all other vegetable oils, and healthy unlike all oils mentioned, except for olive, it has many vitamins, natural from and used for thousands of years in Africa, the ancient Egyptians used, and considered it a sacred oil, and by people from the diaspora (such as north and northeast of Brazil), historically, for centuries europeans and descendants try to demonize it, it's all about racism, deculturation, and keeping cheap labor (in africa and south america and asia), it may change the african economy in the future, but today it is more produced in asia, a refined version, which is not healthy like real palm oil, but even better than all the oils mentioned, especially better than canola (this is garbage, sold as healthy by North Americans), and some Asians plant it in the wrong places, but who else buys it are processed foods\industrialized and cosmetics companies, Europeans and North Americans, instead of demonizing them (demonizing companies), white vegans and white environmentalists, Europeans and North Americans demonize palm oil, of course.

Mankind is facing true cost of comfort and convenience. Year 2020 and 2021 we are seeing megaheat megadrought unserten rainfall.

I love palm oil estates because they help to feed people from Malaysia and Indonesia while at the same time it helps to absorb co2 and produce clean air in these 2 countries. Why are you bad mouthing palm oil? You are afraid of the competition.

There is a channel called "The Gecko Project" that shows us the true face of palm plantation in Indonesia.

Palm Oil is more sustainable than all other edible oils. This is why I say this: 1. First of all, there are no other bodies that promote or ensure sustainability in other oil seeds/crops such as soybean, rapeseed, sunflower etc. They are as culpable for deforestation even more than Palm oil - remember palm oil utilises only 5% of global land used for Oil crop farming. Yet say uses almost 30%, sunflower 18% etc. So expansion of farmlands for sunflower or soybean will always be bigger than that of oil palm while having little output. 2. Palm oil is evergreen from the day is planted to when it gets uprooted at 25 to 30 years. All these other oil seed are seasonal, what does this mean? That there are times after harvest the land will be bare and we rob it of green cover. At that time we expose the land to high surface water evaporation, soil erosion, and reduction in the elimination of carbon dioxide from atmosphere and reduction of fresh oxygen that green plants produce. Yet, oil palm will protect the land beneath its canopy, will remain green year through cleaning the air for us by taking carbon dioxide and producing fresh oxygen for us. Oil Palm plantation is a forest in itself. 3. Soybean, rapeseed, sunflower require more fertiliser, irrigation, and more pesticides which affect our universe adversely. Palm oil produces fertiliser and is less prone to pests meaning uses less chemicals - which is good for the universe. 4. Palm oil is an effient producer than all the other oil seeds. Meaning it helps conserve the land when you need less land to produce more output. 5. Palm oil is more versatile oil. Its application on many different things makes it an all in one type of product. You can use it for soap making, cosmetics, cooking, as a preservative, as sustainable biodiesel, for high temperature cooking (frying), as butter replacement etc. No other oil seed can be used in such a manner. 6. Oil Palm produces two different types of oils Crude Palm Oil and Palm Kernel Oil which have different properties. No soybean, sunflower or rapeseed can match this. 7. Palm oil can power many other industries. Through its byproducts other industries such as livestock feed production, paper production, Inc production, construction, briquettes production, fertiliser production, candle production, electricity production etc. Its pyproducts are higher in volume per hectare compared to any other oil crop and they use does not affect production of the oils at all. 8. Palm oil is healthy oil. Rich in vitamins A, E, and K that help build strong immunity, good eyesight, healthy skin, and antioxidants to fight free radicals. Tocotrinols are being tested for cure for cancer tumors. 9. Oil Palms can be intercropped with any other crops including pineapples, coffee, bananas, vanilla, etc, thus maximing land use. 10. Oil Palm do not need crop rotation because it does not deplete the soil of nutrients. Using empty fruit bunches returned to the farm the same land can be replanted with oil Palm trees after the old ones are felled. But for sunflower or rapeseed you can't plant them on the same land even for 5 years on a row without suffering on production and diseases and without needing to add chemical fertilisers. With Palms you can plant them for 100 years on same land - you just move the wholes every 20 to 30 years on same land and produce the same output without any additional fertiliser or crop rotation. 11. Palm Oil is natural, organic, and not GMO. The Red Palm Oil that's not refined is the best. It's time to give Palm oil the respect it deserve.

Palm oil is more and healthier than sunflower oil, soybean oil and others, but they frame Palm Oil as bad and Damage the environment, in fact farmers plant Palm Trees on their own land and not extend to protected forest

A lot of misinformation. U should come to see for yourself in malaysia or Indonesia

Thank you so much for covering this topic!

Nice. But you forgot to mention palm trees produces more oxygen than canola

Oil palm plantation area is only 5% of the total vegetable oil area but is capable of producing 30% vegetable oil which is much more efficient than soybeans, sunflower seeds etc.

Your channel is so underrated! Well researched, amazing graphics and cohesive and easy to understand information. I hope you get your own show on VOX, that would make my life complete

Pls be proffesional and get the facts right. Cooking oil or all vegetables oils are primary Commodity and it already become fuel. Only palm oil produce high oil per hectare which is more than 3 mt per hec. Can be higher than 9mt with good agricultural practices. Next is Soy bean which produce less than 1mt per hectare. Rest of the vegetables oil need huge land bank and not even suitable for small holders. This why I believe a few Rich guys who heavily invested in other oils must have paying you Handsomely to talk about this and your jaw dropped.. Agreed?

What about other oil industries?

I think it's true what the WWF is suggesting. We should go towards sustainable development and transparent solution for the palm oil industry. Banning it will worsen the environment since the demand for the palm oil is very high and they will opt for the plantations with less yield of oil per acre to replace it.

Is no one going to mention the threat of orangutans going extinct due to palm plantations?

Do you know there is 100 of species live in palm oil plantation like owl, eagle, nice, chicken, etc etc because palm oil is a tree with fruits edible to them.

Boycotting palm oil? looks like you need to rethink. Palm oil is very efficient in producing vegetable oil

The problem is not the palm oil, it is the people who are deciding profit over the environment, as in the video palm oil is the best yield per acre, what wasn't mentioned is it's about 2x more efficient of the next best, coconut oil. let's say we switched to coconut oil, not only would the damage from the palm tree factories be done but now we have to destroy even more than before to get the same yield. The idea behind boycotting palm oil has good intentions but it fails to make a movement in the right direction. Because what then happens to that land that was used for palm trees? What is needed is something that has a similar principle to the likes of a fairtrade certificate, maybe a WWF certificate of sorts, Palm oil (or other ingredients) that have been sourced from producers who are pacing themselves, to allow the wildlife to adapt, are sustainable to preventing such rapid change, if that maybe with replanting trees cut down and preserving the general habitat surrounding their farms. However there also maybe benefits to locally grown oil-rich plants, that would minimise the highly localised change palm oil production is causing, while also reducing the environmental impact of transporting the palm oil to the EU & USA, although I am not sure if the pros outweigh the cons as it seems rapeseed would be the best candidate and that produces under 1/5th the amount of oil per acre, not to mention the potential logistics problems. the best we can do now is to play with what we have and attempt to preserve what we have left, do not attempt to redesign the wheel.

Guys, I wanna see how much we can raise to donate to Tree charities

great video and I hope your channel keeps growing!!

American & European talking about environment but in another hand creating products such as plastics that harm environment.

Do a comparison between all the oils available on the market and which is best to choose

Again, super-stunning infographics and amazing research. However, this time, my thirst for a call-to-action or route to global betterment was not quenched. What shall we do? Demolish capitalism?

I love Nutella, Simple question. Who loves Nutella? Thumbs up.

3:16 - this is the equivalent of 36800 olympic swimming pools of carbon dioxide more, per year. This is a terrible comparison. CO2 gas? Measured in volume? Okay, I guess we assume it's at atmospheric pressure and temperature, because the volume of a gas varies tremendously. But how much does an olympic swimming pool hold? I dont know. Most people dont know, either. The number sounds impressive, but it does nothing to really show how much extra CO2/yr that is. One gram of CO2 at STP conditions contains around 125mL of gas. That's a useless metric because the layman can't realistically imagine what a gram of CO2 looks like.

Hi could you make a video on how to tell if the information source is reliable and which sources to use Please

Soooooo the biggest problem is capitalism.

I just did a 1000km motorcycle and camping trip around Sabah on Borneo last week.... There are soooooo many oil palm plantations. What makes it so sad is the stark contrast between those plantations and the undisturbed protected rainforest... We saw so many animals, big and small in the protected forests, and there's a symphony of animal sounds ringing through the jungle air. Then after you leave it's just miles and miles of oil palm with no music, no signs of life 😥

So if I understood that correctly, the oil palms aren't a problem, but monoculture is. Is there a reason they aren't grown as much in other places? Just that difficult to grow in other climates/soils?

Indonesia, when r u gonna claim burning forest? Lol 😂