Why has at least half of the world’s wild orangutans disappeared in the last 20 years?
Are we ravaging forests to obtain a food product that’s not even healthy in the first place?
Palm oil has been sold to the world as yet another increasingly sustainable and healthy alternative to other vegetable oils. It is now the most widely produced edible vegetable oil globally, passing soybean oil eight years ago. Following the repetitive formula which comes out of the food industry decade after decade–any time the next big economical, versatile and immensely popular of edible oils come along to be integrated into thousands of food products, inevitably we find out that they’re not so great for our health or the environment. Palm oil is no exception from this formula and here’s why you need to get this oil out of your diet for good.
Palm Fruit oil is now more widely produced than soy bean oil. It is taken from the fruit of the oil palm tree. It comes from the same part of the palm tree as regular palm oil.
At least half of the world’s wild orangutans have disappeared in the last 20 years; biologically viable populations of orangutans have been radically reduced in size and number; and 80 percent of the orangutan habitat has either been depopulated or totally destroyed. The trend shows no sign of abating: government maps of future planned land use show more of the same, on an increasing scale.
Why has at least half of the world’s wild orangutans disappeared in the last 20 years?
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