Cons

So whenever I hear the word palm oil, I immediately think of huge plantations in India,Thailand and Nigeria. Then I think about the wildlife that is displaced and has nowhere to go they are then either shot by poachers or just end up dying of hunger or nowhere to live. Sometimes people are hired by the companies to "control" the "pests". There have even been reports of poachers paying the companies that produce palm oil in order to be allowed to murder the orang-utans and other wildlife that has been displaced by the deforestation.

Wildlife

So then main concern that many people have is of the orang-utans. I have placed a video below which is graphic, but shows the truth and the sad reality of this ingredient. Orang utans are indigenous to Sumatra. They are a very intelligent social bunch of apes and need only a few things; water, sun, food and trees. As a result of the deforestation, they simply cannot live.

Health

Palm oil is a saturated fat which means it is one of the worst fats out there.

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Intro

Palm oil is an oil that has been used for thousands of years and has many uses, pros and cons. In this blog I will be talking about all of the aspects of palm oil.


Many people have a bad feeling or have a generally negative connotation when it comes to palm oil. Palm oil has been used as far back as  5,000 years ago. It was one of the most traded things until it was overtaken by cocoa in the 1880s. it is nowadays mostly grown in Colombia, Nigeria, Borneo, Thailand and Indonesia. many people have criticised it so much that, food producers must now label specifically what type of vegetable fat or oil that it originates from.

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Palm oil is slowly but surely becoming a growing concern of many consumers. Myself being one of them. I am ALWAYS looking at the labels on all the food and seeing if they have Palm oil. It may seem strange at first how I may seem absurd or demented or fixated on some hype of abandoning Palm oil. it is something which I have carried out a lot of research on.

I will outline all my reasons in my coming blogs as to why I hate the stuff. Here is another picture which I feel shows how the oil is destroying our planet. And the most annoying thing is that most of the foods I and many like contain it in high amounts. One surprising thing is that it is not just in poor quality foods. it is in higher quality foods also. Nutella, Cadbury, Lindt, Ferrero Rocher and Palmolive soap are a few brands which contain it in high amounts. I had always adored Nutella, and when I looked at the ingredients it was mainly composed of sugar cocoa and vegetable oils. Now keep in mind that I had always found it ok that vegetable oils were in it. this was all before the 12th December 2014. the next time I looked at the ingredients I was horrified to see that its main constituent was indeed palm oil. to this day I refuse to eat nutella, even though I love the taste.

So I will be updating my blog weekly so stay tuned!