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component - a driver. This time last year, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was voicing


his determination that he would not allow Christmas to be cancelled due to Covid-19. The prospect of empty plates (and stockings) is starting to make the prospect of saving Christmas 2021 seem a much greater challenge.


SOYBEAN AND PALM OIL The impact of consumer resistance to meat, eggs and milk produced with the assistance of feed rations derived from genetically modified crops, moved back into the limelight in early September, courtesy of a warning issued by the French feed syndicate SNIA (Syndicat National de l’Industrie de la Nutrition Animale). Speaking during a press conference that marked SNIA’s 50th


anniversary, the syndicate’s president, François Cholat, said an ‘indisputable increase in the cost of feeding farm animals’ was on the way, due to a global shortage of suitable non-GM soybean. His reasoning was based on the sharp rise in non-GM soybean prices over the past year, an upward movement which SNIA believes could translate into as much as a 10% retail price increase for consumers. One solution, of course, is for French farmers to grow more non-


GM feed on home soil, rather than leaving the country to rely so much on imports. While such an answer is already in development, replacing non-GM imports for around 20% of France’s requirements is going to take time. Now this will no doubt sound like an odd next step, but how about


filling the gap with palm oil co-products? I honestly don’t know if that’s anywhere near being a sensible suggestion, but I do know that the palm oil industry is getting a major sustainability make-over at present, which could make livestock feed co-products much more interesting, and acceptable, going forward.


Pro-palm oil (PPO) point one: There’s a hugely informative report on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) website which names several oil palm industry co-products as being capable of utilisation for animal feed; most notably oil palm fronds, oil palm trunks, palm press fibre, empty fruit bunches, palm kernel cake, and palm oil mill effluent.


PPO 2: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (ROSP), based in Indonesia and Malaysia, drew an impressive turnout of livestock sector stakeholders for a recent webinar on the crop’s animal feed potential. Feed producers, dairy and meat processors, retailers and trade associations were all represented during the debate with keynote speakers including Henk Flipsen, Director of The Netherlands Feed Industry Association (NEVEDI), who ‘showcased the best practices put in place by the Association to support its membership base on proceeding with a rapid sustainable sourcing policy’.


PPO 3: Nestlé and Cargill, both major international food and agriculture players, have given their considerable support to ‘sustainable’ palm oil in recent weeks. The commitment from Nestlé is that it will only purchase 100% deforestation-free palm oil from 2022 onwards, a move which adds a new commercial edge to the drive for future customer acceptance. In similar vein, Cargill is building a US$200 million palm oil refinery in Lampung, Indonesia, to ‘accelerate’ its efforts to develop a sustainable palm supply chain and to provide verified deforestation-free products to customers.


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