Timeline for Why do many vegans avoid products which contain palm oil?
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| Apr 13, 2018 at 7:46 | comment | added | rackandboneman | I was all about making a sharp differentiation between "ethically unsuitable" (a problem with palm oil gathered via unsustainable farming practices, a problem with stolen broccoli) and "unsuitable for health reasons", | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 0:04 | comment | added | Alexander Rossa | @rackandboneman I am sorry, I think I am still unsure about what the point is. So you argue that there is something wrong with palm oil because there is something wrong with stolen broccoli? Why introduce stolen broccoli at all? And why is your claim using as little to indicate as much? I am really not trying to be salty or anything, I am just a bit confused about the debate, sorry. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 22:00 | comment | added | rackandboneman | " I certainly see something wrong with stolen broccoli." That was exactly my point! | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:52 | comment | added | Alexander Rossa | @rackandboneman I certainly see something wrong with stolen broccoli. It is stolen. I also see problem with palm oil - the (un)sustainability of it with its current production and the impact it has on ecosystems it is being grown in. Also, the question asks why they find it unsuitable in the body and why they avoid it in the title. I see it nowhere specified that health reasons should therefore be excluded. I certainly find smoking unsuitable and avoid it because it has bad effect on my health. Have we read the same question? | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 19:02 | comment | added | rackandboneman | The question is whether "vegans consider it unsuitable to consume" implies ethical/political reasons only. If yes, there is as little wrong with palm oil as there is with stolen broccoli. | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 12:54 | comment | added | Alexander Rossa | @rackandboneman I agree with that. Palm oil is certainly a lesser evil when compared to hydrogenated fats, but the question did not ask about that. | |
| Apr 24, 2017 at 10:09 | comment | added | rackandboneman | I'd still call saturated fats preferable, if there is a culinary need for a room temperature solid fat, to anything hydrogenation hardened. | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 8:58 | history | edited | Zanna♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 3, 2017 at 22:42 | history | answered | Alexander Rossa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |