Author Archives: Sam Balaton-Chrimes

Sustainable palm oil must consider people too

 Businesses, government and civil society met this month in Medan, Indonesia, for the 11th annual Roundtable meeting on sustainable palm oil. While orangutan conservation organisations dominated conversations about sustainability, another serious problem lingers: what to do with local people. Read more

Should MasterChef have asked Samira to cook pork?

Many Australians would have watched Muslim MasterChef contestant Samira get kicked off the show on Wednesday night for cooking the worst pork hot dog.  To be fair, putting it that way distorts the decision – it was her brioche bun that undid her. But in my mind there were bigger questions raised last night than […]