Over a period of a few decades around 1850, 95 per cent of the two million acres of Redwood forest in California were cut and destroyed. What kind of men would cut down these ancient irreplaceable giant trees?...
To accuse the industry in Malaysia and Indonesia of contributing to global warming is sheer nonsense...
The anti-oil palm lobby in the west includes pro-soya bean and rapeseed groups who see oil palm as a major competitor and have recruited food lobbyists to play on fears of the health hazards of palm oil consumption...
... The oil palm tree is the world’s most efficient oil crop because one can harvest 5 tonnes of oil per hectare. This is 10 times more productive than soya bean planted in the West,... 5 times more productive than rapeseed...
Finally, the western environmental activists’ campaign against oil palm plantation expansion, in the name of “saving rainforests”, is a violation of international norms and Malaysia’s and Indonesia’s sovereignty.
Source: Excerpts from Koon Yew Yin. Read more at ipohecho.