Palm oil is harmful. Notoriously to the environment, but also to those who habitually consume it and those who continue to use it in packaged foods. Consumers are tired of enduring the invasion of a low-cost fat that only benefits the less careful industry. As demonstrated by the initiative of ilfattoalimentare.it – media partner of GIFT – they discard snacks, cookies, and other baked goods that contain it, favoring those that do not.
Palm oil harms forests, devastated to make way for intensive plantations. It causes the death of animals naturally living in that habitat. And it is often the cause of the displacement of people living in those lands. Considered ideal because it is cheap and versatile in industrial processes, scientific research identifies it as a factor that promotes overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, one of the most harmful forms for health.
Palm oil is bad for business
The campaign promoted by Il Fatto Alimentare invites reporting every palm oil free product found on the shelf. And numerous testimonials prove that this low-quality ingredient is easily replaceable. Gentilini, Panarello, some Coop lines, Esselunga, Artebianca… An increasingly virtuous group.
