Fearing tobacco's fate, palm oil industry fights back

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Its campaign is centered around small holder farmers, carried out by platforms that say they represent farmers but are created or run by PR firms hired by the MPOC, the strategy documents dated Aug 6, 2018 and Feb 26, 2019, show.

Asked by Reuters for comment on its strategy, DCI said it was engaged in the Malaysian campaign but did not give details. Invoke runs its campaign through the ‘Planters United’ platform, which describes itself as a non-governmental organization made up of smallholder farmers, according to a Feb. 26 copy of its proposal seen by Reuters.EU lawmakers declined to talk about lobbying by the palm oil industry but environmental group Greenpeace said the lobbying by Malaysia had resulted in the EU law relating to biodiesel being diluted.

Farmers Unite says on its website it is a global coalition of oil palm small farmer associations and other supporting organizations, and that it speaks for more than 7 million oil palm smallholders across the world.Farmers Unite took out full page advertisements last December in the UK against British retailer Iceland when the company said it would stop selling in-house products containing palm oil. Iceland says it has ended the use of palm oil in such products by the end of 2018.

 

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Major companies like Nabisco are dropping Palm Oil. Good!! It kills us and the orangutans. Are you still buying microwave popcorn

And both destroy the remaining rainforrest’s at high speed..

End poisonous monoculture.

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