PrincessPeach wrote:
This doesn't make me happy.
Dr bronners is big too! What am I going to do about Earth balance ? They all say natural oil blend and the first ingredient after that is palm oil..?
You'd need to stop using almost all processed foods. And almost all commercial soaps.
Earth balance, what a crock. Nothing heart healthy about it, or remotely eco friendly.
Use vegenaise (or make your own) as a spreadable fatty substance.
http://followyourheart.com/comparison-charts/
Although, it's better to make your own as a nut butter in the blender.
Mix up some flax and hemp seeds, maybe some cashews, a bit of salt, lemon juice, etc.
As far as I know, followyourheart never uses palm oil, but you could call them to confirm that.
*Nope, I was wrong. They use it in their cheeses:
http://followyourheart.com/products/moz ... shreds-27/
Assholes.
You have to be a special kind of evil to knowingly put palm oil in your consumer products, seeing as its so incredibly unhealthy and destructive to the environment (though some people may delude themselves into thinking "sustainable" has any meaning with regard to palm oil). It gives you a big leg up in terms of market appeal because it's incredibly delicious, but again, evil. We're talking cigarette company kind of evil here.
I'm guessing followyoutheart are delusional about it.
http://followyourheart.com/palmoil/ Yep, delusional.
"Our cigarettes are low tar! Doctor recommended!"
PrincessPeach wrote:I live in the tropics there are some many palm trees in Florida why isn't some one making palm oil in Florida..?
Not tropical enough.
http://greenpalm.org/about-palm-oil/wha ... -oil-grown
Maybe they could at the very tip of Florida, just maybe (I don't think so). But the problem is that demand for palm oil is endlessly growing, and it's demanding more and more land. There's really limited land where it can grow, and wherever you grow it you'll be chopping down rain forest or destroying some other precious natural environment.
If you wanted to destroy and fill in the everglades to grow palm, that might work, but how horrible would that be?
There are a few possibly viable ways we could fix the problem:
1. Genetically engineer or breed the palm plant so it will grow at higher latitudes (Florida, California, maybe even Texas). This would pretty much save all of the rain forests, and with locally grown palm oil, the U.S. could even ban import. This has failed so far, the conditions just not being good for these plants, and plants that will grow in those conditions not producing good yield.
2. Yeast:
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable- ... tive-yeast
Oil from yeast would be pretty much the most environmentally friendly and sustainable source you could imagine.
This is the most promising, but it's years away from commercial viability, and that's if it can compete on price.
3. Chemical engineering. Find something to replace palm oil. Either a means of enzymatically saturating oils without hydrogenation, or something else that produces the necessary texture and melting qualities. Starches, gums, waxes, soaps, sugars, alcohols, proteins,
something.
