bwvanassen.bsky.social
@bwvanassen.bsky.social
How about I work on the issues in my country and you do yours? I'm sure I can point fingers at "your" ongoing conversion of peatlands. But, I favour reforestation and peatlands restoration in my backyard rather than pursue fallacious solutions on social media.
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Palms of paradox – cultivating palms to support reforestation and avoid deforestation - IOPscience
Palms of paradox – cultivating palms to support reforestation and avoid deforestation, Azahari, D H, Sukarman, van Assen, B W
iopscience.iop.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Except, of course, all the oil palm planted in the previous century; like this example from the 1920s (onderneming Bangoen near Pematangsiantar). Your activism is commendable but needs calibration.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Is that you admitting that it's the interesterification, not the palm oil, that is the problem? Well done! It's the very reason I rarely use social media: the sheer ignorance of the quacktivists. It's as bad as flat earth, but with significant RL impacts.
August 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
For the EU, >80% is traceable. RSPO certified is 100% traceable. Any other vegoil, <35% is traceable.
August 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
There is no problem whatsoever in tracing the origins of sustainable palm oil to the mill or even the smallholder. You merely want an impossible standard that traces each molecule of oil while you have no concern for other ingredients.
August 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
No doubt, you have studied the meaning of interesterified? Because... any oil can be interesterified.
August 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Did you just compare the systematic pursuit of knowledge to the zealous pursuit of flat earth? That's sheer insanity.
August 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Striking, how amateur activists claim to be able to trace illegal palm oil but trained auditors do a poor job. Another just-so-story, but this time by proxy. Where's the evidence for your claims?
January 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That's a great sales pitch: the just-so story that you personalised, the oversimplified cause and the personal quest. But, where's the evidence for anything you posted? None whatsoever, just another sales pitch?
January 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Have you done the grass/hay challenge yet, Fluffy? You'd have a dedicated supporter if you did. Yet, somehow I suspect that you deny all animal suffering caused by your consumerism.
January 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Much of the #PalmiticAcid in our *blood* is from #carbs or #alcohol: "the most common saturated fatty acid found in the human body and can be provided in the diet or synthesized endogenously from other fatty acids, carbohydrates and amino acids".
doi.org/10.3389/fphy...
Frontiers | Palmitic Acid: Physiological Role, Metabolism and Nutritional Implications
Palmitic acid (PA) has been for long time negatively depicted for its putative detrimental health effects, shadowing its multiple crucial physiological activ...
doi.org
January 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#PalmiticAcid is commonly found in all fats/oils, and in the *diet* most of it comes from meat and dairy products; even #OliveOil is a larger contributor than #PalmOil itself!
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
doi.org/10.3390/ijms...
Biological and Nutritional Properties of Palm Oil and Palmitic Acid: Effects on Health
A growing body of evidence highlights the close association between nutrition and human health. Fat is an essential macronutrient, and vegetable oils, such as palm oil, are widely used in the food ind...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM