The Irreplaceable
Bee Wilson: Palm Oil Dependency, 23 June 2022
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything – and Endangered the World
by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman.
Hurst, 337 pp., £20, May 2021,978 1 78738 378 4 Show More
by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman.
Hurst, 337 pp., £20, May 2021,
Oil Palm: A Global History
by Jonathan E. Robins.
North Carolina, 418 pp., £32.95, July 2021,978 1 4696 6289 3 Show More
by Jonathan E. Robins.
North Carolina, 418 pp., £32.95, July 2021,
“... in the world now is RBD: refined, bleached and deodorised.The advertising for Price’s candles co-opted the language of antislavery, foreshadowing the way palm oil was later positioned as a healthy alternative to trans fats and, in the form of ‘green’ biofuel, as an ethical alternative to fossil fuels. It has also been used to create detergents ... ”
