If we were to boycott palm oil and replace it with one of these alternatives, we would need far more farmland. If every company were to follow Ben & Jerry’s lead and use coconut and soybean oil instead of palm, we would need about 5 to 10 times as much land devoted to oil crops. Where is that land going to come from? Coconut is a tropical crop. It’s going to come at the expense of tropical habitats. That doesn’t sound like the sustainability solution to me. It would be a disaster.
