Kuala Lampur, Jan. 26 -- More Malaysians have shed their anti-palm oil sentiments following the "Love My Palm Oil" awareness campaign spearheaded by the Primary Industries Ministry, the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) has claimed.

Its chief executive Datuk Kalyana Sundaram said that many initiatives have also been taken by the council itself to address Western propaganda on the edible oil, often painted as a destructive force which displaces wildlife and causing rampant deforestation.

"Malaysian consumers have definitely been influenced by all these anti-palm oil messages, by the social media and the electronic media they have access to.

"Many of them have become believers without understanding the facts of knowing the truth," he sai...