It has been quite a long time that we attended a meet
up/event which educates us about the general crisis we are facing as
individuals with respect to world order etc. rather than learning more and more
about the thing we know best: food.
There are some serious events happening across the globe
related to food security, war, terrorism etc. and it is a sad fact that most
multi facet organizations and developed nations use food security as a tool to
manipulate countries with huge populations (like ours!).
On the same line, we were a part of a bloggers meet on the
topic of palm oil at The Vivanta by Taj-M.G. Road. It was more of an
informative session than being a bloggers meet as there were an array of topics
discussed revolving around the acceptance of palm oil and strategies
implemented to make sure than even though on a daily basis we consume goods
containing palm oil, we don’t use it because of the idea of apparent harm attached to it.
The above paragraph sounds paradoxical doesn’t it? It
should, because it is! Children are always told that we should have a diet
based on natural food mostly ones growing out of the earth. Palm trees most
definitely fit the description and the yield of palm oil is consumed by over a
million people directly and they are still alive and well. So, the question is
what makes us delusional about this topic?
This meet was organized by #MPOC or the Malaysian Palm Oil
Council and Malaysia is thriving on Palm Oil because it has numerous advantages
over other varieties of oil. Over 70% of Malaysia is now covered with palm
plantations which not only give them great yield but also maintains forest
cover. There are many reasons behind the adoption of palm oil and a few are as
follows:
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