The other side of it is to ask the people being questioned if they'd be willing to pay three times as much for a pack of Oreos and everything else on the store shelves. I appreciate shining a light on how the things we purchase impacts our environment, but only covering half the story isn't journalism, it's advocacy. The journalistic story isn't simply that palm oil production endangers orangutans - it's how much we as a society are willing to give up to save them (or, how much we're not willing to give up).
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has a very helpful app which scans product bar codes and it can tell you if it contains palm oil, and also if it's sourced in a sustainable way. Some(few) companies don't get their palm oil from areas that have affected orangutans. As for peanut butter, you can buy it pure with no oil, but it just may have to be refrigerated, and pro tip, store it upside down so it doesn't separate at the top!
Adam's Peanut Butter contains only peanuts and salt, and Kraft's 'Only Peanuts' peanut butter is just that. Of course they're more expensive than the other peanut butters with all kinds of fillers in them, but I feel it's worth it.
I think there’s a big part of this whole palm oil story that this video misses out on. And it nearly makes the video misleading. And that’s the ORIGINS OF PALM OIL. If you look at the origin of palm oil, you’ll realise that palm oil tree (the fruit from which palm oil is derived) originates from WEST AFRICA. In west Africa, palm oil trees are indigenous to the habitat and ecosystem. They are the natural environnement of these places. So animals (or plants) are not negatively impacted by the existence of these trees. THE PROBLEM is not palm oil. The problem is what I will call IRRESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES OR METHODS which these countries that imported palm oil seeds from west Africa and started cultivating in their own areas are engaged in! Rather than demonise palm oil, it’s important to state what the problem really is. Which is: The cultivation of it outside of west Africa. Then call out the governments and countries who encourage these environmentally irresponsible agricultural enterprises. Then the narrative will be better balanced.
If red palm oil gives us most life-saving TOCOTRIENOLS....why do we not have access to vast quantities of moderately-priced TOCOTRIENOL SUPPLEMENTS, derived from RED PALM OIL?
I know about palm oil comes from & seen alot in the road highways of S.E.A countries. Looks quite clean organized trees in rows. I cannot stand of people destroying trees where wild animals had to live,eat & sleep.
Per hectre, palm oil produces more oil than sunflower or canola.It takes less land to produce as much.My country had a scheme that converted colonial era rubber plantation into palm oil estate. People were given lands, grants and houses to settle in these estates.Millions were lifted from poverty and their children were educated thanks to palm oil plantation scheme.
@@verar5844 The difference is, the plantation is not foreign owned.If it's owned some western megacorporation, they would say palm oil is the best choice.
Marketplace should have spend more time on the negative impact of palm oil incl. Destruction of the flora and fauna, and GHG emissions from forest burning
Oh NO, not my Sensodyne Pronamel toothpaste my dentists recommends!! I'm T2 Diabetic and a low carb-r, I rarely buy processed foods from the middle aisles.
I wish this episode provided a bit more information about the origins of palm oil and its sustainable use in West Africa. Also that the burden shouldnt just be on consumers making choices, but also regulations and pushing companies to do better. We're not going to stop using palm oil over night and it is nearly impossible to not buy things with palm oil in them. Might as well just make everything at home and not buy anything at the store anymore.
Wow, I knew about palm oil being in processed food (Nutella, Maggi broth, etc., I read the ingredients list). But I didn't know about cosmetics! If it's labelled under another name we're doomed... Very informative report! Thanks!
Even if people knew about palm oil being in multiple consumer products, it wont make a difference as people will still buy those same products containing palm oil.
Not quite sure why palm oil is bad just yet.. I know it is farmed in countries with lower working standards. As a farming point of view, it seems fine to me. Typically, useable clear cut rainforest will not grow standard crops. Farming palm trees may in fact help the dirt develop into more usable soil. (Just my non-educated outlook, clearly lots still wrong with what I said, but these countries are trying to grow and are willing to make environmental mistakes whether we like it or not. If you don't like what I said, then find a better solution for that country and make sure it still meets all the needs and criteria) It's clear palm oil is needed via this clip, and to think otherwise is just the bias privilege that shades your eyes. (unless Canadian "CAN,OIL" canola oil is better.)
tropical forest produce more oxygen than temperate forest... then there's an issue about slavery.... but at the and palm oil productivity is insurmountable than other oil plant... if they want to change the oil type they would eventually going to require more land than palm oil
0:44 Try #Adams brand peanut butter. Just peanuts; and salt if you choose the salted kind. 6:23 Well, #JandJ, once again, you disappoint and move me on from your products. Be transparent and it might not be that I find alternative products and am willing to continue using (in this case) #Aveeno, but no transparency? What are you hiding? *#CBCMarketplace** **#PalmOil** **#SumatraOrangutang*
Palm Oil originally was from West Africa where women and men were enslaved and kept Palm oil was used to get away from the enslavement of women, they couldn't have known how badly the original source of the product would do to jungles, forested areas, and animals. Awareness and advocacy for all concerned are critical.
Very frustrating to see Toronto Zoo collaborate on this misguided "say no to palm oil" piece when they have been leaders in demonstrating that demanding sustainable palm oil is a far better solution for orangutans than a blanket boycott of the ingredient!
The oil is no worse than any oil. It is the way it is grown that is destructive. That said, palm oil is the most land efficient oil source, the only way to reduce its destruction is to use less oil in our product. Which we can't, so it will be down to reducing consumption, which we won't. So this story is very pointless.
Look for the word "plant" in the ingredient list. If it says canola or soybean oil, it probably doesn't have palm oil in it. If it says plant mono-and di-glycerides, it probably does. Also, you can taste it, or I can anyway. Tastes like there's plastic in it, whatever it is. You've all chewed on something plastic at some point, straw, pen, take your pick, you know what it tastes like and you know it when you taste it. I hope. Anyway, when I taste palm oil, and I always do, I throw it away and don't buy it again.
K, forests are being burned in third world nations to plant palm oil plantations. What's wrong with that is simple, these forests have no natural history of needing burning. Tropical forests rarely do.
Just go watch them taking down the oil palm trees with the orangutans still in the trees. The devastation is beyond description. I would hope it might make you understand why it's not okay 🙄
It also destroys rainforests, rainforests that we need to be sustained to clean the air we breath. Additionally, the clearing of rainforests for palm oil farming generally uses fire, which releases even more gas from the peatland soil below. Annually, 4% of all greenhouse gas emissions globally come from damage to peatland.
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The other side of it is to ask the people being questioned if they'd be willing to pay three times as much for a pack of Oreos and everything else on the store shelves. I appreciate shining a light on how the things we purchase impacts our environment, but only covering half the story isn't journalism, it's advocacy. The journalistic story isn't simply that palm oil production endangers orangutans - it's how much we as a society are willing to give up to save them (or, how much we're not willing to give up).
Well said
Precisely
Just like everyone is mad because China took all the manufacturing jobs but they all shop at Walmarts
it is also about just giving up the oreos, not just not being able to pay more
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has a very helpful app which scans product bar codes and it can tell you if it contains palm oil, and also if it's sourced in a sustainable way. Some(few) companies don't get their palm oil from areas that have affected orangutans.
As for peanut butter, you can buy it pure with no oil, but it just may have to be refrigerated, and pro tip, store it upside down so it doesn't separate at the top!
I think dairy farmers are still feeding it to cows as our butter has a higher melting point. It just doesn’t melt right any more.
Adam's Peanut Butter contains only peanuts and salt, and Kraft's 'Only Peanuts' peanut butter is just that.
Of course they're more expensive than the other peanut butters with all kinds of fillers in them, but I feel it's worth it.
I think there’s a big part of this whole palm oil story that this video misses out on. And it nearly makes the video misleading. And that’s the ORIGINS OF PALM OIL.
If you look at the origin of palm oil, you’ll realise that palm oil tree (the fruit from which palm oil is derived) originates from WEST AFRICA. In west Africa, palm oil trees are indigenous to the habitat and ecosystem. They are the natural environnement of these places. So animals (or plants) are not negatively impacted by the existence of these trees.
THE PROBLEM is not palm oil. The problem is what I will call IRRESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES OR METHODS which these countries that imported palm oil seeds from west Africa and started cultivating in their own areas are engaged in!
Rather than demonise palm oil, it’s important to state what the problem really is. Which is: The cultivation of it outside of west Africa. Then call out the governments and countries who encourage these environmentally irresponsible agricultural enterprises.
Then the narrative will be better balanced.
If red palm oil gives us most life-saving TOCOTRIENOLS....why do we not have access to vast quantities of moderately-priced TOCOTRIENOL SUPPLEMENTS, derived from RED PALM OIL?
Education is power.
Education empowers you to make better choices.
That's why I like CBC Marketplace.
I love this video. Great Work
It totally leaves heavy oil aftertaste in store baked bakery items.
And here I thought it was just me.
Thanks for sharing.
I know about palm oil comes from & seen alot in the road highways of S.E.A countries. Looks quite clean organized trees in rows. I cannot stand of people destroying trees where wild animals had to live,eat & sleep.
What about your house? the roads you use everyday?, how the things that you own are different than palm oil?
Per hectre, palm oil produces more oil than sunflower or canola.It takes less land to produce as much.My country had a scheme that converted colonial era rubber plantation into palm oil estate. People were given lands, grants and houses to settle in these estates.Millions were lifted from poverty and their children were educated thanks to palm oil plantation scheme.
@@verar5844 The difference is, the plantation is not foreign owned.If it's owned some western megacorporation, they would say palm oil is the best choice.
Marketplace should have spend more time on the negative impact of palm oil incl. Destruction of the flora and fauna, and GHG emissions from forest burning
Oh NO, not my Sensodyne Pronamel toothpaste my dentists recommends!! I'm T2 Diabetic and a low carb-r, I rarely buy processed foods from the middle aisles.
I wish this episode provided a bit more information about the origins of palm oil and its sustainable use in West Africa. Also that the burden shouldnt just be on consumers making choices, but also regulations and pushing companies to do better. We're not going to stop using palm oil over night and it is nearly impossible to not buy things with palm oil in them. Might as well just make everything at home and not buy anything at the store anymore.
Wow, I knew about palm oil being in processed food (Nutella, Maggi broth, etc., I read the ingredients list). But I didn't know about cosmetics! If it's labelled under another name we're doomed...
Very informative report! Thanks!
Even if people knew about palm oil being in multiple consumer products, it wont make a difference as people will still buy those same products containing palm oil.
Not quite sure why palm oil is bad just yet.. I know it is farmed in countries with lower working standards. As a farming point of view, it seems fine to me. Typically, useable clear cut rainforest will not grow standard crops. Farming palm trees may in fact help the dirt develop into more usable soil. (Just my non-educated outlook, clearly lots still wrong with what I said, but these countries are trying to grow and are willing to make environmental mistakes whether we like it or not. If you don't like what I said, then find a better solution for that country and make sure it still meets all the needs and criteria) It's clear palm oil is needed via this clip, and to think otherwise is just the bias privilege that shades your eyes. (unless Canadian "CAN,OIL" canola oil is better.)
Canola is incredibly bad for our bodies unfortunately
tropical forest produce more oxygen than temperate forest... then there's an issue about slavery.... but at the and palm oil productivity is insurmountable than other oil plant... if they want to change the oil type they would eventually going to require more land than palm oil
0:44 Try #Adams brand peanut butter. Just peanuts; and salt if you choose the salted kind.
6:23 Well, #JandJ, once again, you disappoint and move me on from your products. Be transparent and it might not be that I find alternative products and am willing to continue using (in this case) #Aveeno, but no transparency? What are you hiding?
*#CBCMarketplace** **#PalmOil** **#SumatraOrangutang*
Good thing I only use bacon grease, much more environmentally friendly. 😂
Why doesn't the government just ban palm oil all together just like Europe did.
😅😅😅😅😅
Read your labels. It's everywhere.
Eyyy Prof Rousseau!
wait, u guys never said why it was bad tho?? whats so bad about palm oil if its from nature?
They
welcome to the new era palm oil
Unlike Canola oil, Palm oil is good for humans.
Cash is King ....
Palm Oil originally was from West Africa where women and men were enslaved and kept Palm oil was used to get away from the enslavement of women, they couldn't have known how badly the original source of the product would do to jungles, forested areas, and animals. Awareness and advocacy for all concerned are critical.
No what is just as bad as palm oil , Zoo’s !!!!
Very frustrating to see Toronto Zoo collaborate on this misguided "say no to palm oil" piece when they have been leaders in demonstrating that demanding sustainable palm oil is a far better solution for orangutans than a blanket boycott of the ingredient!
So what's so wrong with palm oil?
The oil is no worse than any oil. It is the way it is grown that is destructive. That said, palm oil is the most land efficient oil source, the only way to reduce its destruction is to use less oil in our product. Which we can't, so it will be down to reducing consumption, which we won't. So this story is very pointless.
Look for the word "plant" in the ingredient list.
If it says canola or soybean oil, it probably doesn't have palm oil in it.
If it says plant mono-and di-glycerides, it probably does.
Also, you can taste it, or I can anyway. Tastes like there's plastic in it, whatever it is.
You've all chewed on something plastic at some point, straw, pen, take your pick, you know what it tastes like and you know it when you taste it.
I hope.
Anyway, when I taste palm oil, and I always do, I throw it away and don't buy it again.
Palm oil is used as a lubricant for women with vaginal discharge issues
Why not a show on how easy it is to rig elections?
Why don't you look else where - Really
palm oill -----why does someone have to dub in music while peopl ar talking knock it off
What's wrong with palm oil? Why should'nt we use it? You have not told us why you question the use of Palm oil.
K, forests are being burned in third world nations to plant palm oil plantations.
What's wrong with that is simple, these forests have no natural history of needing burning.
Tropical forests rarely do.
"What you should know..." and yet not a damn word on the nutritional value and health impact relative to other oils. What a missed opportunity.
What is wrong? With palm oil- are people dying- if no one dies so what is big deal? And if anyone doesn’t like palm oil just quit
orangutans are incredibly smart and human-like. They are just like us and we should respect them.
Just go watch them taking down the oil palm trees with the orangutans still in the trees. The devastation is beyond description. I would hope it might make you understand why it's not okay 🙄
It is refined and toxic - watch the rest of the vid
It also destroys rainforests, rainforests that we need to be sustained to clean the air we breath. Additionally, the clearing of rainforests for palm oil farming generally uses fire, which releases even more gas from the peatland soil below. Annually, 4% of all greenhouse gas emissions globally come from damage to peatland.
@@NicholasMoreau I thought this was in the vid. If so, this person did not watch the vid.
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Just watched this segment a short time ago. Also found the Dog DNA testing interesting.
People spend crazy $$$ on pets. Most don't get insurance but DNA tests🙃🙃🙃🙄🙄
Irish Bob 💗 your show.
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