The Problem with Palm Oil

Re:The Problem with Palm Oil by ip26 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:41PM (#22368585)

The confounding variable is that the cows would have been produced anyway for food, so using leftover tallow, bone, etc is ecologically virtuous

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Re:The Problem with Palm Oil by firethief on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:45PM (#22368634)

Unless you pay for it.

The cows are produced for money. Muscle meat is one of the most lucrative products, but demand for any part of the cow incentivizes more cows.

It's possible that it would still be ecologically the lesser evil because the market value is low and what you might choose as an alternative isn't necessarily better, but it's not so clear cut as you make it sound.

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Re:The Problem with Palm Oil by hinkley on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @02:47PM (#22369292)

And as many people have discovered, once you try to commercialize use of a 'free' resource it stops being free real quick.

Does anyone making biofuel still get their feedstock for free?

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Re:The Problem with Palm Oil by hef19898 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @01:47PM (#22368648)

Yeah, that was my thought. Having local farms supplying local butchers and using every single bit of the animal.

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