Palm Oil, Earth Balance, and Rainforest Destruction: Straw-Man Argument or Legitimate Connection?

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Public awareness is growing about the relationship between the production of palm oil and the loss of rainforests. And that's a good thing (though much work needs to be done between the relationship between the production of animal-based MEAT and the destruction of rainforests). Grown in tropical regions, palm plantations are displacing rainforests, destroying orangutan habitats and wreaking havoc on the ecosystem. With good intentions, some activists have called for a boycott of Earth Balance, a vegan butter that uses palm oil as its primary fat, even though it doesn't source its palm from native orangutan habitats. Is it possible to source palm oil sustainably? For that matter, is it possible to source any historically unsustainable crop in a sustainable way? In today's episode, I weigh in on this issue and offer some food for thought.

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1:46.0	Thank you to our compassionate business partner for today's episode, Field Roast.
1:52.0	You've heard me talk about Field Roast and rave about Field Roast. You've heard me talk about Field Roast and rave
1:54.2	about Field Roast. Field Roast is an amazing, innovative, and brilliant company
2:00.1	responsible for Mexican Chipotle, their Italian sausages, and of course their breakfast sausages, their apple,
2:16.2	maple breakfast sausages, and I've talked about their Frankfurters.
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