Hello from Western Malaysia thanks for bringing awareness to this situation that has global ramifications. Both Malaysia and Indonesia are very much tied economically to palm oil and due to irresponsible practices over the last half century they have put themselves in a terrible situation.

They're not solely to blame however as the entire world created the demand and turned a blind eye to the abysmal means of production whilst they enjoyed a cheap and widely used product. Now these same countries namely the EU have decided that palm oil is bad and they will be finding other sources and oils to substitute the palm oil. This is crippling to developing nations that have been exploited and encouraged to destroy their rainforests to keep up with a demand that has now been halted. Palm oil isn't inherently evil and banning it is not necessary . What conscious beings should do and should have done long ago is to put less emphasis on the bottom dollar and some common sense towards sustainable agriculture. I'm sure all of us could have paid an extra nickel for a candy bar so that deforestation would have been minimized and an ecosystem as well as economy could have been saved.

Live and learn, the same things are happening all over the earth and it's driven by broken global economics that thrive on inequality thus keeping the first world countries rich and consuming while the 2nd and 3rd world countries are relegated to be poor, disadvantaged producers..

In conclusion banning products has catastrophic implications to the millions of human lives in the region and what is needed is responsible consumers that demand sustainable solutions that bridge the economic inequalities that keep our precarious supply and demand models afloat..