Global demand for palm edible oil has been growing significantly since last few decades due to world demand and growing on population thus increase on vegetable oil consumption (Mahat, 2012). Global population projected to increase from 7.3 billion to 9.8 billion by 2050, this will increase global demand on vegetable oil consumption to 16kg per person per year (Alexandratos, 2012). This also equivalent for calories intake from year 2003/05, 2770 kcal up to 3050 kcal per person by year 2050 (Food and Argriculture Organization, 2009). Palm oil is the raw material which produce multiple nutritious and also has become one of the important source of edible oil beside soy bean oil. It’s also proven highest yield per hectare and the most land use …show more content…
The massive development of oil palm plantation has caused some serious environmental issues, for instance global warming, greenhouse gas emission, deforestation, water pollution, biodiversity loss, air pollution and soil erosion. The development of palm oil industry has been causing the environment degradation which poses major threats and impacts on human and animal health. This is no longer an issue for a country, but it’s had become global issues for the coming century. The ecology issues has been raised and concerns from several international non-profit organizations and also international communities such as Malaysia Palm oil Board (henceforth MPOB), World Wildlife Fund (henceforth WWF) and Roundtable Sustainable Palm Oil (henceforth RSPO). They are also monitoring closely and implement sustainable development solutions to reduce the impacts of the palm oil
Read your food and beauty product labels carefully, and avoid this ingredient. Teach Your Children, Teach kids about the importance of rainforests to the health of our planet. Empower them to make responsible choices. Help them make the connection between choosing foods without palm oil or conserving fossil fuels and protecting the rainforests. Reduce Your Consumption of Fossil Fuels,Oil extraction in the Amazon has increased dramatically with sometimes devastating social and environmental consequences.
Is the practice of traditional factory farming at the costs it entails to the environment and our only recourses really worth it? Is it even ethical for us humans to use up to 40% of the only energy there is in the world. If all our energy in the food we eat relates and flows back to the natural farm fields is it worth it to take the rich sun energy for ourselves and rob it from the land. Or is there a possibility for alternatives that benefit and balance all aspects of nutrition for all animals that live off energy. In the excerpt “The Oil we Eat” Richard Manning explains what is really at stake.
Imagine if all of Florida disappeared under the water. Millions of people would need to migrate up to other states, likely causing population issues in some places, and the culprit of the disappearance: Humans. More specifically, climate change caused by humans. Climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and that makes the atmosphere trap heat from the sun in our atmosphere. This causes the global temperature to slowly increase.
The Earth is melting, and people need to help. Climate change is a regular thing that happens on Earth, but recently, it has changed drastically. " Since 1880, Earth’s average temperature has increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius. (BGE) This may not seem like much, but scientists are worried.
Cuba is considered the most naturally diverse Caribbean nation with its exceptional biodiversity and its endemic landscape that supports countless plants and animal species. Cuba’s need for economic expansion and industrialization has fostered the transformation of the country’s landscape. The demand for tobacco and sugar resulted in deforestation and subsequently natural habitats were destroyed to facilitate farming. In the 1980’s Cuba moved away from Soviet fuel imports and utilized domestic crude. This oil contained roughly six percent of sulfur oxides which released harmful emissions into the atmosphere.
Michael Mueller Dr. Ogbaharya POLS 101 16 December 2015 Section A 1. There are many environmental problems that surround us everyday in this world. The Ecosystem around us includes humans, glaciers, mountains, plant life, rocks, oceans and seas. Many engineering developments are resulting in our resource depletion and are ultimately leading to environmental destruction. As our modern technologies have advanced, with the increase in the use of plastic, rubber, oil and metals, our resources have been depleted.
It’s obvious to see that global warming is becoming more and more of an issue. What we don’t know is how much global warming is going to affect us in the future. Some people believe it’s a major issue while other aren’t quite sure if it would even change anything or cause damage. When you look at the statistics though, it’s easy to realize that something, like using renewable resources, must be done to slow down global warming or stop it all together.
The rare, tropical timbers and the vast areas of ancient forest and peat-swamps are cut down make way for the increasing number of palm oil plantations. Huge tracts of forest have been cleared throughout their range and the
Threw many studies and research it has been proved that the meat industry is at fault for contaminating our oceans and rivers. It is been noted that the meat industry is at fault for the runoff that is dumped into the rivers and the millions of gallons of manure that is dumped into rivers, oceans and lagoons. As well as endangering the well being of sea creatures. According to the article Devil in the deep blue sea by Brian Palmer, the rainfall washes massive amount of fertilizers into the water “Rains wash excess fertilizer from farms into interior waterways, which eventually empty into the ocean.”.
Research question: How can peak oil impact the economic, social, environmental impact, consumer and producer? What is Peak oil? Peak oil is the maximum extraction of petroleum when reached a certain level. Who is the founder of peak oil?
One thing that i would like to know more about is why is there so much world hunger? i mean that's a pretty sensible harmless question that can easily be answered right. what i thought and pretty much thought i was going to find was a bunch of stuff about pollution and world hunger percentages,children dead in the streets and less fortunate people living in boxes under bridges. these type of topics really bother me because i was almost to that point with my family of possibly being thrown out on the street,i don't really want to get into the how and why because it would be a long story and i don't want you to be reading all about me. what i really did find on the topic of world hunger was 5 topics.
Yet again, avocado is a high fat food. In truth, 77% of the calories in it are from fat,making it one of the fattiest plant sustenances in nearness. Be that as it may, they don’t just contain any fat… the majority of the fat in avocado is oleic destructive. This is a monounsaturated unsaturated fat that is in like manner the genuine fragment in olive oil and acknowledged to be accountable for some of its profitable effects.
Good post Mayelin, I 'll say that price gouging is nothing new for Monsanto. Time and time again they 've been shown to only look out for their interests, not those of farmers. Brazil is hardly the first country to suffer from Monsanto 's greed and "frankenfood" experiments. The mass suicides in India stand still stand as the very worst that Monsanto 's responsible for, but that 's mainly because the death toll is in the thousands.
Introduction: “Sustainable agriculture is the efficient production of safe high quality agricultural products, in a way that protects and improves the natural environment the social and economic conditions of farmers their employees and local communities and safe guard the health and welfare of all farmed species“ There are three main principles of sustainable agriculture, the three principles are: 1. Economic sustainability 2. Environmental sustainability 3. Social sustainability With the human population continuing to rise, it is vital that the agricultural industry becomes more sustainable to meet the needs of the growing population. One of the impacts of this growing population is an increase in land usage for settlement purposes.
Remember the revolutions that swept the Middle East in 2011, they all began with people in the street upset over the price of food. What’s more many of the world's top agricultural experts believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg unless we figure out new strategies to deal with global food security. We may be entering a new and dangerous phase of human history where food water and energy shortages threaten not only worse poverty but also civic unrest and international conflict. There are a number of reasons for this alarm, the first reason is that in most years we produce only just enough food to cover uses. in fact in six of the last 11 years we actually consumed slightly more food then we produced and the buffer we take from one year to the next has been steadily falling so our system already seems pretty fragile ,but it's when we look into the future that things grow very dire indeed.