[semimojo]

But I imagine it is an oil that is more readily available in some parts of the world than some healthier oils.

It's also responsible for a huge amount of deforestation. Very controversial product.

[Wuli]

There was a lot of deforestation in the early settlement of the U.S. Most of it has grown back and in some places is now more than in the 1800s. Maybe that will be replicated in third world areas in time.

Then again there is U.S. farmland, of which a great deal of it was just praries in the 1700-early 1800s. I wonder which “mother nature” prefers, or does “she” care.