“Palm oil is the lesser evil – sadly”
WWF / Süddeutsche Zeitung
At more than 40 percent, the lion’s share of the roughly 1.8 million tonnes of palm oil consumed in Germany is used for diesel fuel, according to a study by WWF Germany. “To solve the palm oil problem, one would need to improve cultivation conditions and reduce demand,” the organisation says in a press release. Simply replacing it with other types of oil in German consumption would only lead to more cropland needed and more greenhouse gas emissions. The cultivation of palm oil has “devastating consequences” for the environment and happens under “inhumane working conditions,” writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung in a separate article.
Read the Süddeutsche article in German here and read the WWF press release in German here.
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