Palm kernel has become an important supplement – and is NOT an environmental monster

Fertco produces Mineral Boost – a product forming an important part of the Palm Kernel feed supplement programmes used by numerous farmers as a cost effective substitute when other feed lags.

Palm Kernel – a by product of Palm Oil production has come in for criticism…. much of it suspected to be unfounded and now demonstrably so.

Here is the summary. Email Brent Wheeler for the full article

Palm Oil – Let’s Inject Some Common Sense.

By Katherine Rich

20 November 2009

Reading headlines such as “Deadly Palm Oil In Your Trolley”, one could easily get the false impression that any New Zealand firm using palm oil is personally responsible for the demise of the orangutan and world’s rainforests.
The use of palm oil has been treated like an industry “dirty secret” - somewhere on the environmental nasties continuum between baby seal clubbing and ocelot farming.
The reality is quite different. Most palm oil is being farmed sustainably on tracts of land that have been dedicated to production for many decades, and rather than being a recent ingredient, palm oil has been used by humans for thousands of years.

Reacting to valid conservation concerns, many food producers are already joining initiatives such as the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil and purchasing sustainably-produced palm oil.

It’s time to inject some reason to this discussion because as the Auckland Zoo says, “not all palm oil is bad – if it is made from a non-destructive source, it's fine”.