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2. I don't quite understand part of the explanation
Sun Apr 26, 2020, 02:43 PM
Apr 2020


"In 2018, the IUCN discharged a report that depicted how boycotting palm oil would basically move the harvest’s biodiversity effects on locales where its substitution oils are created, for example, the tropical woodlands and savannas of South America."

Even though soybean oil and other vegetable oils require more land to get the same amount of oil, can't soybeans be grown in other locations. My cousins grow soybeans in Illinois.

Whereas palm oil, needs to grow in a tropical location.

If only we could find a way for the locals to make money in Indonesia and Borneo without cutting down forests.

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