Australian Labelling Bill on Palm Oil Against WTO Provisions
If palm oil has to be labelled for all food products marketed in Australia, it is likely to disrupt trade. Imports of food products will be affected as the palm oil content of food manufactured overseas is not labelled specifically as required by the proposed bill. Local manufacturers will need to have new and specific...
Washington Dialogue on Sustainable Palm Oil – NGOs Fail to Sabotage Event
Recently, the Malaysian and Indonesian Ministers in charge of the palm oil industry had a roundtable dialogue with US NGOs, government officials and other food and non-food customers to discuss palm oil sustainability issues.
The Case of WENGOs Blindly Pushing for Labelling of Palm Oil
The greatest flaw and danger by Australian Senate in the proposed palm oil labeling Bill is its discriminatory treatment of palm oil. The Bill was proposed based on WENGOs’ allegations and not on well founded studies of the palm oil industry in Malaysia, Indonesia and many other developing countries in Tropical Asia, Africa and Latin...
Palm Oil: How Greenies Threaten Jobs and Food Security
The economic contribution of palm oil and other plantation commodities provided the assurance of a remunerative source of income and unlimited employment opportunities throughout the year for the people of Malaysia. A day’s work of harvesting oil palm fruits or tapping rubber trees for latex can provide a person with an income of more than...
Critical Role of Palm Oil in Enhancing Food Security
What is food security? According to FAO, food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is an important agricultural crop, which yields three important sources...
How Sustainable Production of Palm Oil Contibutes to Reduced Global Warming
At a recent forum organized by the Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM), it was revealed that there was no moral case for Western Environmental NGOs (WENGOs) campaigns against palm oil. Data indicates that the agricultural land occupied by the world palm oil industry is miniscule as compared to the total land allocated to...
