[scythe]

Palm oil generates an incredible amount of pollution in Internet comment sections whenever it is mentioned, because people don't realize that it's simply the most productive oil per unit acre by far. If not for Indonesian rainforest palm oil you'd need to cut down 2-3x as much Brazilian rainforest for soybeans or Phillippine rainforest for coconuts to meet the same demand. 71% of palm oil is consumed between the Caspian Sea and the Pacific. Approximately one-third is used for nonfood applications, particularly the Indonesian biodiesel industry, which if you wanted to do something about deforestation, you could pay them to stop doing that in particular.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/palm-oil...

It is a saturated fat, but it's being mixed with highly unsaturated peanut oil, so the whole-product average is probably insignificant.

[lostlogin]

I went searching regarding your claim about how productive various types of oil are per acre.

It’s actually insane, and palm oil is at least 400% better than the next best.

Edit: coconut oil production is variable depending on where you check. It might be half as good as palm oil.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-yield-by-crop

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-plant-oil-yield-...

https://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html