Dear youths, look again at palm oil

TheStar Thu, May 07, 2026 12:00am - 1 week View Original


Palm oil is not yesterday’s crop. It is an unfinished story that needs fresh minds, honest questions and wiser stewardship.

THIS is my Mother’s Day reflection on palm oil, dignity, sacrifice and why this golden crop still needs young minds.

If I had one message for young Malaysians – and indeed for the wider public – about palm oil, it would be this: do not inherit it blindly, dismiss it lazily, or allow the loudest social media post to do your thinking.

Understand it first. Then question it honestly. Then help improve it wisely.

Palm oil is often reduced to cooking oil, a commodity chart, or a convenient villain in someone else’s campaign.

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Andre V
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No thanks. You can't eat this for food. Vastly over-planted. Polluting. Just no.

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