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13 Oct '12, 1pm

How green are vegetable and rapeseed oils? - Green Living - The Ecologist #palmoil

How green are vegetable and rapeseed oils? - Green Living - The Ecologist #palmoil

As a commodity palm oil is extremely versatile but has come under fire from green groups in recent years. Found in a everything from shampoo to soaps, palm is also used as a cooking oil and can be made into a biofuel. Currently, we consume around 50 million tonnes a year, although this is expected to double by 2050, according to WWF figures. As a result of increased consumption, wildlife such as the pygmy elephant and the Sumatra tiger - both directly affected by habitat loss - are pushed further into decline. But, as Harrison says, palm isn’t the only oil at fault: other types of vegetable oil also have an environmental impact. ‘WWF is focusing on soy, which impacts on the Cerrado or South American savannah through clearance to farm it and palm oil,’ explains Harrison. ‘Oil seed rape will have impacts where it grows.’ So can ditching palm or soy for something else really ...

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