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<p>When doing the initial research for our synthetic alternative to palm oil components, we quickly came across lots of information regarding the current palm oil industry. It soon became apparent that the economies of some countries, for example Indonesia and Malaysia, depend almost entirely upon the current methods of palm oil production. Therefore we compiled <b>an impact analysis report for synthetic palm oil</b>, which can be found by clicking on the button to the right.</p>
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<p>When doing the initial research for our synthetic alternative to palm oil components, we quickly came across lots of information regarding the current palm oil industry. It soon became apparent that the economies of some countries, for example Indonesia and Malaysia, depend almost entirely upon the current methods of palm oil production. Therefore we compiled <b>a detailed impact analysis report for synthetic palm oil</b>, which can be found by clicking on the button to the right.</p>
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             <p>Palm oil is used in hundreds of products. It is likely that you have either consumed or used a product today containing palm oil or its constituents, but we, as consumers, rarely think about it or where it comes from. The truth behind its current method of production is devastating.
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             <p>As palm oil is commonly used for different purposes today, the introduction of synthetic palm oil is expected to alter the markets of not only palm oil, but food and the likes too in terms of prices.
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<ul><li>Food price has been escalating for years and the trend is suggested to go on for the next few decades. </li><br>
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<ul><li>300 football fields an hour are being chopped down every hour in Indonesia and Malaysia to make room for oil palm plantations[1]</li><br>
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<li>This rise in price is because the emphasis on biofuel has increased the demand for palm oil and has implicitly encouraging the use of food crops in biofuel production rather than being processed into edible food. </li></ul>
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<li>This mass deforestation is resulting in a massive decline in many critically endangered organisms, such as the sumatran orangutan (link to model here?)[2]</li><br>
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<li>Rare flora, much of which is yet to have been researched and is found only within these rainforests, is being destroyed and lost forever[3]</li><br>
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<li><i>People</i> live in the rainforests that are being bulldozed, their homes completely eradicated because of the palm oil industry[4]</li><br>
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<li>Rainforests act as a colossal carbon sink and are often growing atop peatlands - uprooting or burning these trees releases a huge amount of CO2 into the atmosphere (resulting in deforestation related to the palm oil industry accounting for more global warming than every vehicle on earth combined)[5]</li></ul><br>
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So yes, the problems arising as a direct result of the palm oil industry <i>are</i> a big deal.<br>
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<p>If palm oil is synthetically produced, as our project demonstrates is possible, the food price would be more stable as food crops would be used for food purposes only rather than for feeding the microbes used in biofuel production.
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[1] http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil<br>
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[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/28/sumatran-orangutans-dying-indonesia-forest-fire<br>
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<p>As outlined in the previous sections, introducing a synthetic alternative to a natural product may have dire consequences on the populations most reliant on the natural cultivation of the product. However, certain things can be done to minimise the impact felt by these countries. These possibilities are discussed further in the following pages.</p>
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[3] http://www.indonesianrainforest.org/indonesian-rainforest/rainforest-medicinal-plants/<br>
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[5] http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/forest_solutions/palm-oil-and-forests.html</p>
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[1] http://www.globalharvestinitiative.org/Documents/Kruse%20-%20Demand%20for%20Agricultural%20Commoditites.pdf<br>
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[2] Photo &copy; <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ngk/" target="_blank">canadapost</a></p>
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When doing the initial research for our synthetic alternative to palm oil components, we quickly came across lots of information regarding the current palm oil industry. It soon became apparent that the economies of some countries, for example Indonesia and Malaysia, depend almost entirely upon the current methods of palm oil production. Therefore we compiled a detailed impact analysis report for synthetic palm oil, which can be found by clicking on the button to the right.

Palm Oil Is Not The Only Industry That Will Be Impacted

As palm oil is commonly used for different purposes today, the introduction of synthetic palm oil is expected to alter the markets of not only palm oil, but food and the likes too in terms of prices.

  • Food price has been escalating for years and the trend is suggested to go on for the next few decades.

  • This rise in price is because the emphasis on biofuel has increased the demand for palm oil and has implicitly encouraging the use of food crops in biofuel production rather than being processed into edible food.

If palm oil is synthetically produced, as our project demonstrates is possible, the food price would be more stable as food crops would be used for food purposes only rather than for feeding the microbes used in biofuel production.

As outlined in the previous sections, introducing a synthetic alternative to a natural product may have dire consequences on the populations most reliant on the natural cultivation of the product. However, certain things can be done to minimise the impact felt by these countries. These possibilities are discussed further in the following pages.





References
[1] http://www.globalharvestinitiative.org/Documents/Kruse%20-%20Demand%20for%20Agricultural%20Commoditites.pdf
[2] Photo © canadapost

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