This site has been hacked twice in the past month. In all likelihood, this is the cowardly action of desperate people. People who have run out of ideas as to how to stop the exposes that we run regularly against environmental NGOs such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Rainforest Action Network who have run untruthful,shady and deceitful campaigns against palm oil.

If they think that we can be muzzled by their actions, they are wrong. Let it be known that that their actions are entirely futile as we have a mirror site running and back up the postings on a daily basis. Hack our site and we'd be up and running again in no time. Keep trying and we'll keep bouncing back!

Nothing will stop the exposes of the shenaniggans and dishonest schemes behind the anti-palm oil campaigns. After all the truth cannot be stopped. They can never stop us from calling a spade a spade and telling it like it is.

Whatever these desperate merchants of untruth wearing the cloak of environmental NGOs come up with, they can never mask or conceal the truth. Facts will always remain facts, no matter how these devils in disguise may try to diminish them or embellish them.

After all, palm oil is planted on LESS than 1% of the world's total agricultural area and yet accounts for more than 30% of the world's edible oil output. This fact proves that palm oil does not require quite as much land as it's critics would want the world to believe. This fact alone demolishes all the false allegations of massive deforestation and destruction of biodiversity such as the orang utan.

This fact, by and of itself, should alert the media and all right thinking observers that something does not jive with the anti-palm oil campaigns. No matter how much support these anti-palm oil campaigns receives from the main stream media, it cannot alter the fact that palm oil is the highest yielding edible oil crop with a typical yield of 4-5 metric tons per hectare, which is close to ten times the yield of its nearest competitor.

This explains why Malaysia, which is a relatively small country could be the world's largest producer of palm oil for more than a century and yet retain forest cover of 56%!

Any right thinking individual would have come to the inevitable and irresistible conclusion that this kind of yield makes palm oil the world's cheapest cooking oil making it a target! Add to that the oil's inherent heart friendly characteristics since it is packed with anti-oxidants such as beta-carotenes, Co-enzyme Q10 and toco-trienols and the oil's suitability as feedstock for biofuel manufacturing makes palm oil a most formidable competitor in the global fats and edible oil markets.

All these mean that palm oil's growth as the leading edible oil in the world market cannot be stopped by market forces alone. This explains the concerted and well planned and cleverly coordinated campaigns to stop the growth of palm oil by fair means or foul!

The latest strategy by these environmental NGOs such as Greenpeace is to target the large multinational EU manufacturers of fast moving consumer goods such as Unilever and Nestle, to discourage their purchase of palm oil to use as a manufacturing.

A favored tactic of these NGOs is to take satellite images of a small deforested area in Indonesia and try to create the impression that the entire rainforest system of Indonesia has been decimated.

Unfortunately, the media fell for the ruse and went to town with  their reports of palm oil causing massive deforestation. However, the multinationals such as Nestle are finally waking up to the fact that all these schemes are just a clever form of greenmail by Greenpeace. After suspending Indonesian planter Sinar Mas as a supplier, Nestle has now refused to take similar action against IOI as they are now fully aware of the diabolical and dubious motives behind the greenmail schemes of Greenpeace!

Deforestation Watch would like to pose this question to Greenpeace: What is so objectionable for a country like Indonesia which is a developing country with hundreds of millions of hungry mouths to feed to adopt a forest cover target of 25% which is the same forest cover existing in the EU? In fact, the United Kingdom, from where Greenpeace hails has only 11% forest cover! After all, contrary to popular opinion, 40% of palm oil cultivation is cultivated by smallholders who depend on palm oil to eke out a living. It cannot be denied that palm oil cultivation plays an important role in poverty eradication. It is a fact that in India, poor rural farmers who do not have the benefit of owning palm oil smallholdings to drag themselves out of poverty have one of the highest suicide rates in the world! THE END