Like COVID-19 the anti-palm oil claims spread around Europe We warned you!!! Anti-Palm Oil Claims will penetrate Europe. Following the Italian path, the claim Palm Oil free is spreading throughout Europe, like a virus. Italian Food companies and retailers paved the way. They have massively used it in their commercial and marketing strategies: misleading consumers […]
Circular economy: EU’s latest action plan. We are at a time of great uncertainty across the world. The outbreak of COVID-19 is jeopardizing health systems in many countries, viewing Europe as the epicenters of this crisis. The European Commission has continued to make progress on its Green Pact presented at the end of last year. […]
Sustainable Diet Today, food owns a new role as we are approaching an increasing consumer and health-conscious world. That is to improve the well-being of man and environmental sustainability. For this reason, the Eat-Lancet Commission developed the “Food in the Anthropocene: the eat-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems“, an interdisciplinary study focusing […]
Will Europe be carbon-neutral by 2050? This is the aim of the new European Green Deal. If this were to happen, it would certainly have a positive turning point for the thousand possibilities of development and employment. The Commission seems to want to send a clear and strong message to the whole world about the […]
Carrefour is a member of RSPO. It supports sustainable palm oil. In France the company boycotts it. Why? Carrefour France boycotts palm oil. And yet, Carrefour is an historic member of RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Palm Oil), investing heavily in the development of the sustainable supply-chain of palm oil. Why are these two options so radically different? […]
After years of speculation, driverless cars seem to be more and more real. However, as Gartner analyst Mike Ramsey says, it will take at least ten years to be easily accessible to all. The road to self-driving is still uncertain because of the excessively high costs, lack of market, and lack of standard safety regulations that […]
Palm oil-producing countries risk being caught in another trap, under the pressure of lobbies and ideological groups. The proposed new dual limit for 3-MCPD will not improve health and sustainability standards. It will also not reduce the impact of food crops on climate change. It will only jeopardize and kill the impressing achievements of the palm […]
We all love and drink coffee, and nobody wants to pay an arm and a leg for it. But, by keeping coffee prices so low, we may be causing it to go into extinction. A full assessment of the world’s coffee supply shows that 60% of known plant species are facing possible extinction. Factoring in climate change, […]
PALM OIL IS LIFE: EUROPEAN MISCONCEPTION This is the new episode produced in our series on the positive impacts of palm oil on environmental sustainability and food security for billions of people. The video provides scientific facts and arguments that demolish the European environmentalists and health conscious fanatics ideologies. Palm oil (PO) – see our dedicated page >>> – […]
The wave of intense fake-news against palm oil has returned. COMMERCIAL WAR It is the umpteenth confirmation of yet another commercial war, at least in Italy, against producers who use palm oil. Beyond the usual fake news (“sustainable palm oil does not exist”, “palm oil contains powerful carcinogens”), as citizens, we are concerned that the […]