Palm oil industry closer to "green" labeling - Reuters

Source: Reuters

Palm oil industry closer to "green" labeling
Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:02am EST

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A certification process was
launched on Thursday enabling palm oil producers meeting
stringent environment standards to label their products
as eco-friendly.

Palm oil companies that meet the criteria set by an
industry-led initiative, the Round Table on Sustainable
Palm Oil, will be able to market their certified "green
products" in global markets.

"It has been launched and we hope by the first quarter
of 2008, we should be seeing some sustainable palm oil,"
said Teoh Cheng Hai, secretary general of the roundtable,
which groups producers, consumers and environmentalists,
such as Friends of the Earth and WWF.

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An environmental group has even threatened to withdraw
its support from the certification process, accusing
Malaysia and Indonesia of cynically exploiting the
initiative.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSKLR14853020071122

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Related: Green group wary of plans for "eco-friendly" palm - Reuters

Hey Sid, folks really like that enviro stuff. I know we destroy hundreds of thousands of hctares of rainforests to plant our palm plantations but lets slap a green label on our palm oil and charge an extra 12%, whaddaya say?

another bunch of slimeballs in the
certification racket.

Carbon-offsets have something similiar

CSPI have been telling us for a while that, "palm oil, which is high in saturated fat and low in polyunsaturated fat, promotes heart disease." I've been trying to eliminate it from my diet but it is insidious.

http://www.cspinet.org/palm/