(Asia Sentinel) - World Growth, however, argues that Greenpeace has faked its findings of environmental depredation and that cutting back on oil palm production will hurt smallholders in tropical countries and contribute to global starvation by ruining their livelihoods and making palm oil more expensive for the hundreds of millions of people who depend on it for their source of edible oil. Palm oil is about 30 percent cheaper for consumers than any other oil.

(Malaysia Star) - WHO can blame oil palm growers in Malaysia and Indonesia if they are wary of Western non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? After all, the plantation players have endured constant anti-palm oil campaigns spearheaded by environmental NGOs over the years. But lately, one US-based NGO, World Growth, has become an ally by championing the palm oil industry’s role in eradicating poverty in developing countries. Who is behind World Growth, and why is he doing what he is doing? Founder and chairman Alan Oxley, who was in Kuala Lumpur recently, certainly has plenty to say about the green NGOs movement, which he claims camouflage much of their actual agenda with climate change, carbon emission, deforestation and other environmental issues.

(Jakarta Post Editorial by Alan Oxley) - Writing in the International Herald Tribune late last year, Tun Dr. Lim Yeng Kaik, a former senior Malaysian Cabinet minister, characterized the campaign of Western environmental activists to restrict the palm oil industry as the environmental version of the "White Man's Burden".  The aim was to impose western values on colonial peoples. He coined the term the Green Man's burden. The Indonesian palm oil industry showed similar resentment when Nestle and Unilever bowed to pressure several months ago from Greenpeace to restrict use of palm oil and paper products from Indonesia. Small holders, representing the 20 million people dependent on the industry, protested in Jakarta and industry leaders threatened to lead boycotts of Unilever products.

(Palm Oil – The Green Development Oil Newsletter - Issue 7, June 2010) - European Commission Tries to Downplay Biofuel Trade Control - The European Commission has represented its recent announcement that it will require biofuel importers to demonstrate good carbon emission management in land management as a contribution to sustainability – but it still remains a WTO inconsistent trade barrier.