Guest essay by Eric Worrall
French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal has apologised for claiming the popular breakfast spread Nutella exacerbates climate change.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald;
“A thousand apologies for the row over Nutella,” she wrote on her official Twitter account.
The mea culpa related to comments she made on French television on Monday, when she said “we should stop eating Nutella… because it’s made with palm oil” – an ingredient that ensures the soft but not liquid consistency of the popular chocolate-hazelnut spread.
In the interview, she argued that oil palm plantations were supplanting forests, leading to deforestation and causing “considerable damage to the environment”.
Nutella is an iconic Italian export success story, so the attack on Nutella seriously upset France’s Italian neighbours.
Segolene Royal supports producing biofuel from domestic French oil crops such as Rapeseed, rather than importing foreign palm oil.
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at last ‘dangerous salt’ /to whom not bored enough/
we hairless animals prevent from overheating by condensing water due to osmose via salt: sweating.
Thus our need of minerals, salt:
when salting to much we drink, working as heating exchanger / not paid but paying for / at the piss -anyway regulating energy + salt household ‘naturally’.
/ watch plant fed desalinated cows when the farmer offers salt – home made small stompede /. Hans
ever watched cattle grasing neareast a highway, road:
Particulate Matter – greed for minerals, salt. Pollution.
correct me where I’m wrong. Hans
turns back to CAGW:
de-particle-mattered air provides little condensation / crystallication seeds.
thus vater vapour / clouds linger over continents for weeks, unwilling to get rained out.
When a dust layer from the sahara conquers Europe we have Starkregen – heavy rains, hail, turbulences – heavvy storms. CAGW events! devastation ‘rivers’ under the cleared skies.
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beeing a layman feel free to correct me wherever I’m wrong. Hans
/ ‘pollution’ was a regulation means BEFORE man walked the planet. greetings to sahara, death valley, taklamakan /
Outrageous comments by public figures are a freudian slip: they crave attention and seeing themselves on TV is their main driver. The topic itself is irrelevant.
last to the icon destroyers:
‘primitive’ culturs look in disgust at us anthropomorphing rule of time and space to a grandpa in red winteruniform mounting a cola truck; reduce humor to smilys. And let grimmassing porkeys advertise there body meat in tv.
We can’t stand reality – makes me smile.
Silver Ralph: The problem is that there have been subsidies that have been distorting the market, resulting in massive palm plantations displacing other crops and other natural environments.
Really? PROOF! Nonsense GARBAGE, myth. Repeat a myth loud enough and long enough, many people will think it is fact.
Mme Royal is a good 60 years late in worrying about the bad effects of palm oil. When I was at sea I sailed in quite ordinary cargo ships, which had a section of cargo hold converted into a cargo oil tank. For the homeward passage from West Africa, it was filled with Palm Oil. In Liverpool it was cleaned out and the massive lid lifted off, turning it into an ordinary cargo tank. Then back in West Africa the reverse took place. We carried thousands of tons of the stuff, which is not at all unpleasant, nor is it a dangerous cargo, during my time. Other European companies did the same.
I guess it’s export to Europe was a major contribution to the economies of West Africa, and their peoples.
And still is, although now on a much greater scale.