Category: palm oil

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19palmoil.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2">A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel…