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Sustainable palm oil is an ecological scam




by Christophe » 19/05/11, 18:35

The MEP and Friends of the Earth denounce, through the palm oil factory project in Port la Nouvelle, in Aude, the trickery of "sustainable" palm oil.

In 2011, it is no longer possible to say that we do not know. We have been denouncing the environmental and social consequences of growing oil palm for years. Reports are piling up.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, the tropical forests, with their exceptional biodiversity, have given way in a few years to immense monocultures of oil palms.

More than 600 conflicts oppose palm oil companies to local communities who see their forests disappearing or who are driven from their lands.

It is at the price of this sacrifice that these two countries have become the main world producers of palm oil. Worse, today, the cultivation of oil palm, one of the most profitable in the world, is exploding in South America and Africa.

Agri-food companies grab the land to convert it to this monoculture and cases of expulsion of peasants and indigenous communities are increasing in the four corners of the southern hemisphere.

It is however in this context that the Languedoc-Roussillon region, owner of the port of Port-la-Nouvelle, in Aude decided to welcome the Malaysian group, Sime Darby, the world's largest producer of palm oil , to build a factory that will open the doors of the European market to it.

“Sustainable” does not avoid deforestation
To silence the critics, the arguments are set in motion: Sime Darby is a responsible company and its production will soon be fully certified "sustainable" according to the criteria of the round table on sustainable oil palm. An extremely controversial certification.

It is, for example, possible to use in oil palm plantations a neurotoxic pesticide, paraquat, banned in Europe. Logique, the company that markets it, Syngenta, is a member of the Round Table on the Sustainable Oil Palm. Above all, this certification does not guarantee the absence of deforestation.

In a new report entitled “Sustainable palm oil scam”, Friends of the Earth thus showed how the companies PT Budidaya Agro Lestari and PT Sandika Nata Palma, two subsidiaries of Sime Darby in Indonesia, had razed protected forests on several thousand hectares to plant oil palm.

In Liberia, Sime Darby has just acquired more than 200 hectares in a country that has just emerged from the civil war and where land disputes are numerous. Already complaints are accumulating to denounce unworthy working conditions and derisory wages: 000 dollars a day, supplemented, for the lucky ones, by a bag of rice3. Is this sustainable palm oil?

In the food industry or as an agrofuel
Beyond the fight against the establishment of this factory, we call for a broader debate on the policies that have led, for ten years, to a significant increase in imports of palm oil in Europe.

Palm oil is a discreet ingredient found in many everyday products such as cookies, spreads, ready meals, detergents and lipstick.

But it is above all the emergence of the agrofuels market which explains the explosion in imports of this oil: between 1999 and 2009, European consumption of vegetable oil doubled, going from around 11 to 22 million tonnes.

Biofuels, which did not exist ten years ago, now absorb more than 9 million tonnes of vegetable oil and are therefore the main driver of this increase.

Palm oil can be used directly, in a mixture, to run cars or fly planes but the impact is above all indirect: by a communicating mud effect, the food industry which no longer finds oil rapeseed or sunflower, used as biofuels, import more palm oil.

Whether the Port la Nouvelle factory has a vocation to produce agrofuels or edible palm oil is therefore a false debate.

Competition with European farmers
The real challenge is to globally reduce our consumption of vegetable oil, and in priority our fuel needs. The fight against energy waste and relocation must become public policy priorities so that no palm oil factory is built, in Port la Nouvelle or elsewhere.

It is time to take a clear look at the excesses of agro-business: far from contributing to economic development, the increasing imports of palm oil constitute a monopolization of the ecological space of the countries of the South by Europe and prevent communities from meeting their basic needs such as cultivating the land for food or living in a preserved environment.

In turn, these cheap oil imports penalize European farmers who cannot make a decent living from their work. What if the future, in Aude, was to focus on local and organic production of olive oil for food rather than building palm oil factories?

Photo: Inside an oil palm nursery, Indonesia (Friends of the Earth).


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by jlt22 » 19/05/11, 19:04

A very interesting report on Arte, broadcast Tuesday, May 17, reports.

Palm oil, sustainable for multinationals only, but an ecological disaster for producing countries.

http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/le_testament_de_tebaran-3895688.html

Tébaran's will

Deforestation has been going on in Borneo for more than twenty-five years. A phenomenon which deprives in particular the nomadic tribe of the Penan of food and habitat: the water of the rivers became muddy, the fish disappeared, the product of hunting is more and more thin ... The Penan are forced to settle down and lose their ability to survive in their own environment. The wood industry, illegal logging, oil palm plantations (more than 10 million hectares) are the causes of this ecological disaster. Tébaran, by refusing to abandon its ancestral traditions and its nomadic life, is the last to fight against this disaster.
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by Christophe » 19/05/11, 19:43

Thank you for the report: it is not only the Orang Utans who mess with palm oil!

That palm oil is a disaster for biodiversity has been proven for years, on the other hand this subject concerns oil that is supposedly "sustainable" and therefore a priori labeled ... which is not!

It's like the green electricity scam in Belgium which is only on paper: https://www.econologie.com/forums/qualite-de ... 10586.html
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by moinsdewatt » 01/05/17, 11:30

European parliament opposes use of palm oil as biofuel

Posted by Frédéric DOUARD the April 5 2017

On April 4, 2017, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly (610 votes in favor, 18 against and 28 abstentions) a report calling for an end to the use of palm oil for the production of biofuel.

For the past ten years or so, many environmental associations have denounced the abuses of the increasing use of palm oil, which is causing massive conversion of natural environments, primary forests, but also food crops in South Asia. Is in monoculture of oil palm. This oil is a discreet ingredient found in many everyday products. After many warnings, its food consumption has started to decrease in Europe, but its use as a biofuel continues to develop.

In France, the Friends of the Earth France association denounces in particular the conversion project of the Total refinery at La Mède near Martigues, into a biodiesel production plant based on imported palm oil, a project that goes to against the position of the European Parliament. According to the environmental association, this plant alone could double French consumption of palm oil.

Still according to Friends of the Earth, Total justifies its project by the need to meet the growing demand for biodiesel, even though the European Commission plans to reduce the use of biofuels from 2020.

If the production of biodiesel from a limited fraction of the French and European production of oil seeds (rapeseed and sunflower) remains a useful and relevant solution for local agriculture, and for the fight against global warming, the use of Palm oil as a fuel has many more disadvantages than advantages.

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by Janic » 02/05/17, 14:07

what is inconsistent is to condemn on the one hand the production of plants for the use of heat engines and also justify local production
"If the production of biodiesel from a limited fraction of the French and European production of oil seeds (rapeseed and sunflower) remains a useful and relevant solution for local agriculture, and for the fight against global warming, the use of palm oil as fuel presents many more disadvantages than advantages "
if it is a disaster that these palm monocultures, they have nothing to envy to vegetable monocultures for animal feed which represents a much more important waste and deforestation, much more, and always of the countries "in the process of development" c 'is to say exploitable for the use of the American or European wealthy. That is to say the vast majority of the inhabitants of these countries in question.
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by Janic » 02/05/17, 18:40

Palm oil and everything!
http://www.journaldelenvironnement.net/ ... houc,57769
However, the demand for natural rubber, which is very strong in the growing Asian countries, should not weaken. Currently, it even knows an annual increase of 3,5%, even 5,3% just for the tires.
Up to 86% more in 2024
Eleanor Warren-Thomas, of the University of East Anglia in Norwich (United Kingdom), and her colleagues did their calculations: by 2024, 4,3 to 8,5 million more hectares could be planted with rubber trees, of the same order as for palm oil. Compared to 2012, the increase in land cultivated with rubber could therefore amount to up to 86%.

http://www.ocl-journal.org/articles/ocl ... 122p98.pdf
The evolution of palm area and production in the world The palm area in the world is only known with a certain imprecision and the figures differ significantly according to the sources. According to FAO statistics, these areas reached around 12 million ha in 2004 (compared to 8,4 of mature areas according to Oil World), including 4,3 in Africa as a whole, 3,7 in Malaysia, 3,2 in Indonesia and 900 ha in the rest of the world. In fact, over the past thirty years, these developments have been very different (Figure 000). While the palm area of ​​Africa increased from around 1 million ha in 3,4 to 1961 in 4,3 (+ 2004 ha), that of the whole Indonesia-Malaysia, extremely small in 900 (less than 000 ha) really exploded, first in Malaysia, then in Indonesia from the mid-1961s, to increase in 150 years by 000 million ha. In the rest of the world, the areas also increased sharply from less than 80 ha in 30 to nearly 6,7 currently, notably due to progress in countries such as Thailand, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Venezuela

http://www.maisculturedurable.com/la_fr ... on-68.html
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• Corn, a potential for productivity for the future
• France, a production force
• France, the leading European exporter
• Corn at the heart of the regions
France, a production force
Corn is cultivated on 3,2 million hectares in 2013.
Second French vegetable production behind soft wheat, corn represented 10% of the useful agricultural area in 2012.
45% of the areas concern fodder corn planted by breeders to feed dairy and meat cattle, while 55% is devoted to grain corn.
France, main reservoir of corn in a deficit European Union.
Thanks to favorable soil and climatic conditions and the performance of producers, French production remains a safe bet, in quality as in quantity and ensures regular production to supply Europe. More than 40% of grain corn is exported to the European Union.

> Did you know?
The corn area cultivated in 2013,
is :
1,45 million hectares of forage corn
1,65 million hectares of grain corn
70 hectares of corn seed
25 hectares of sweet corn

http://www.planetoscope.com/agriculture ... s-ogm.html
Global production of GM crops grows steadily and reaches 175,2 million hectares in 2013 for a turnover of more than 13.2 billion dollars (2011), or GMO sales of 418 dollars per second (counter). Three-quarters of GM crops are soy GMOs. The area of ​​GM crops has reached 175,2 million hectares, particularly in the United States and Brazil.

http://www.planetoscope.com/cereales/20 ... -soja.html
More than 10 kilos of soybeans are produced worldwide every second (counter). Soybean production has more than doubled in the past 20 years, reaching 336 million tonnes for the 2016-17 campaign, compared to only 30 Mt in the mid-60s. The United States is the world's leading producer and exporter of soybeans, followed by Brazil and Argentina.

http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/ ... de-soja/La world soybean production
Since 2012, world production of soybeans has grown to more than 260 million tonnes per year, of which almost 80% is produced. 100 are supplied by the world's top three producers are the United States, Brazil and Argentina. China, which comes in fourth, produces three times less than Argentina.
The areas devoted to the cultivation of soybeans have increased sharply since the end of the 1990s. This progression has largely come at the expense of areas previously devoted to corn (in the Corn Belt in the United States, in the Pampas in Argentina) or forest areas like those of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. The soybean acreage increased from 72 million hectares in 1999 to 108 million hectares in 2012, an increase of 50 percent. 100. This dynamism is to be linked to the dissemination in emerging countries of the nutritional transition, a phenomenon which results in an increased demand for proteins of animal origin. "ETC ....

and who mainly consumes rubber, palm oil, corn, soybeans? And tobacco, coca, coffee, cocoa, alcoholic vine, bidoche, etc ...? little or no producing countries, but we American-European consumers.
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by Exnihiloest » 05/05/17, 18:59

Janic wrote:...
http://www.planetoscope.com/agriculture ... s-ogm.html
Global production of GM crops grows steadily and reaches 175,2 million hectares in 2013 for a turnover of more than 13.2 billion dollars (2011), or GMO sales of 418 dollars per second (counter). Three-quarters of GM crops are soy GMOs. The area of ​​GM crops has reached 175,2 million hectares, particularly in the United States and Brazil.
...

There is no problem in principle with GMOs. Man has always manipulated nature, crossbreeding for example, and with GMOs it is only the technique that has improved. The problem is twofold: obtaining products useful to man, not harmful to the environment or improving it, and avoiding the monopolization of species by large firms. The second point is a non-specific issue of GMOs (there are de facto monopolies almost everywhere in the production sector).
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by Janic » 05/05/17, 19:57

There is no problem in principle with GMOs. Man has always manipulated nature, crosses for example,

a lot of confusion and mixing. According to the discourse on evolution, very complex mechanisms have been organized in living matter over millions of years, achieving a fragile balance between all of its components. The crossings did not intervene in living matter and the selection by specific characters disappear as soon as nature takes over its rights and therefore human intervention is only momentary.
GMO DIY is no longer selection, but intervention deep inside the living, in the genome when we know almost nothing about it.
and with GMOs it's only the technique that has improved.

It is not an improvement but a deviation for only mercantile reasons under the cover of a false humanism.
The problem is twofold: obtaining products useful to man, not harmful to the environment or improving it,

Do not dream ! Do better than "millions of years" of improvements adapted to the living environment, who do these mad scientists think they are? The living is not like a heap of scrap metal that can be cut, welded at will to "be useful to man" and whose purpose we currently perceive.
and avoid the monopolization of cash by large firms.

It is mixture and confusion! GMOs arrange some who have used and abused this natural world to the point of making it sterile as in the USA and forcing land like animals is paying a high price for the less fortunate. However, the monopolization of species (which?) Would not be prevented by these GMOs in question, but on the contrary with the patenting of living organisms and therefore GMOs.
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