'Sustainable' Palm Oil Just 'Snake Oil in Clever Disguise'. By Keithf, The Sietch Blog, April 28, 2008. "Ever get the feeling you've been had? It's an iconic quote from a punk legend, but as with all great sayings, it can be applied in many different places. This is one example: the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, an industry talking shop if ever there was one and, like the ineffectual light-green environmental groups who 'fight' for changes to government policy and send out gleeful press releases whenever a corporation promises to behave itself, the RSPO are actually making things far worse than if the public were left to their own devices. Sustainable palm oil is simply snake oil in a clever disguise: it doesn't exist and it never will do. Here's how it works..."
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