Hi, I'm here to pick at the part no one seems to have yet: palm oil has much evolved since, thank you very much, and now tends to be
1. ecologically friendlier
by providing homing for other species
2. an important factor in 3rd world country economies
In any case, the damage done is done and the work it provides is essential to smaller economies
meanwhile, you don't hear a pipsqueak from sunflower oil companies. Why is that, you ask? Because they're in the Western countries and the big companies love using it, it costs less for them. And yet, to everyone's surprise, not only do sunflowers take up space, but the West also has an ecology! Did you know 2/3rds of migratory birds never came back to Europe this year due to the use of pesticide killing off the insects they normally prey on? Did you know 93% of house sparrows ave disappeared from Belgium since the 70s? No? Well now you do.
I agree watching your diet is important.
I agree that the industry is often rather barbaric about it.
I agree that it makes sense to try to eat less meats and animal products for your well being, especially if it makes you sick.
But in the current state of the world, you can only go so far. Everything comes from a terrible place, eating anything will kill you and the planet is fucked. Maybe your olives were picked by 11 year olds in Greece, who knows. Maybe they were full of a pesticide that'll give you some horrifying disease within a dozen years. Who knows. But you do you, watch what you eat and have fun I guess.
Yes I see! I lost all faith in reason. It's not true, yet the argument is: that palm oil's good for the environment, that birds need insects to live, et al. The truth is it's not what goes in your mouth that defiles you, but what comes out.
Is it normal to conclude that man wasn't made for eating animal foods?
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Hi, I'm here to pick at the part no one seems to have yet: palm oil has much evolved since, thank you very much, and now tends to be
1. ecologically friendlier
by providing homing for other species
2. an important factor in 3rd world country economies
In any case, the damage done is done and the work it provides is essential to smaller economies
meanwhile, you don't hear a pipsqueak from sunflower oil companies. Why is that, you ask? Because they're in the Western countries and the big companies love using it, it costs less for them. And yet, to everyone's surprise, not only do sunflowers take up space, but the West also has an ecology! Did you know 2/3rds of migratory birds never came back to Europe this year due to the use of pesticide killing off the insects they normally prey on? Did you know 93% of house sparrows ave disappeared from Belgium since the 70s? No? Well now you do.
I agree watching your diet is important.
I agree that the industry is often rather barbaric about it.
I agree that it makes sense to try to eat less meats and animal products for your well being, especially if it makes you sick.
But in the current state of the world, you can only go so far. Everything comes from a terrible place, eating anything will kill you and the planet is fucked. Maybe your olives were picked by 11 year olds in Greece, who knows. Maybe they were full of a pesticide that'll give you some horrifying disease within a dozen years. Who knows. But you do you, watch what you eat and have fun I guess.
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Yes I see! I lost all faith in reason. It's not true, yet the argument is: that palm oil's good for the environment, that birds need insects to live, et al. The truth is it's not what goes in your mouth that defiles you, but what comes out.