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Ultra-processed palm oil is bad.
Palm oil is bad because rainforest is burned down to grow more monoculture palm oil. https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/food_practice/sustainable_production/palm_oil/
This basically describes all agricultural:
This has been discussed before. Clearing out steppes and prairies is different from clearing out rainforest with its extreme biodiversity.
i also think it matters in which country it's done, fucking up other countries to give yourself luxuries is more distasteful than fucking up your own back yard.
Because it's being used for mass ultra processed foods. I was really just referring to the difference between that and the palm oil that's used in traditional African cooking. Its like soy or corn or any other crop that's being used for capitalism rather than just feeding people.
I think this is a fair point. There's palm oil in shit that has no reason for being in there lol
Also cruel to monkeys or something.
Well orangutans live in the forest that is burned down
Cruel to them then. Not monkeys.
The use of palm trees for palm oil is bad.