A Times news article reports on a successful campaign by the New York State Comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, to convince Dunkin' Donuts to remove "environmentally destructive" palm oil from its doughnut recipe. The Times article reports that palm oil's production has "in some places" led "to the destruction of rainforests and increased greenhouse gas emissions."
The article further reports that Dunkin' Donuts began using the palm oil "in 2007 when it moved to rid its menu of trans fats."
Now why, one wonders, would Dunkin' Donuts have "moved to rid its menu of trans fats" in 2007? The Times article doesn't mention it, but that is when Mayor Bloomberg's ban on trans fats went into effect. Include that fact, and the story becomes one about the unintended consequences of government action, and how a trans fat ban intended to improve public health by reducing heart disease wound up wreaking environmental destruction and perhaps even death (if you think Sandy was a result of climate change) by increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Instead, as presented by the Times, the story is about a government official intervening to protect the fragile rainforest from a corporation that would otherwise ravage it.