> I also think that we should just ban palm oil in general. I'm not sure that it has any applications worth the damage to rainforests.
That would be totally misguided.
> While only 5 percent of the world's vegetable oil farmland is used for palm plantations, palm cultivation produces 38 percent of the world's total vegetable oil supply.[82] In terms of oil yield, a palm plantation is 10 times more productive than soya bean and rapeseed cultivation because the palm fruit and kernel both provide usable oil.[82]
That would be totally misguided.
> While only 5 percent of the world's vegetable oil farmland is used for palm plantations, palm cultivation produces 38 percent of the world's total vegetable oil supply.[82] In terms of oil yield, a palm plantation is 10 times more productive than soya bean and rapeseed cultivation because the palm fruit and kernel both provide usable oil.[82]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil
Banning palm oil would increase demand for oils which have lower yields leading to an increase in the cleared areas.