by For Free Choice | 6 December 2018 | Featured, Opinion
In the wake of another action by Greenpeace activists in Italy, chaining themselves in front of a factory in Northern Italy, the For Free Choice Institute is issuing another opinion piece. The piece has been slightly edited to meet standards of The Palm Scribe. The...
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 29 November 2018 | Featured, Opinion
Despite the efforts and hard work of many in the Indonesian palm oil industry to make sustainability a norm, this major Indonesian commodity continues to become the target of incessant attacks and accusations from many corners, being labeled as a destroyer of the...
by For Free Choice | 22 November 2018 | Featured, Opinion
In palm oil-producing countries, including the world’s top producer Indonesia, Greenpeace’s recent series of actions, linked to a anti-palm oil campaign by a British supermarket chain and the boarding of a palm oil tanker ship bound for Europe, is being seen as...
by For Free Choice | 15 November 2018 | Opinion
Iceland Foods ‘supermarket chain’ anti-palm oil Christmas campaign, which has become a viral aftermath from TV in the United Kingdom for breaching political advertising rules, is a populist strategy that actually provides some important science-based...
by Sebastian Sharp | 24 September 2018 | Featured, Opinion
Greenpeace has just released its latest palm oil report, entitled the ‘Final Countdown’. As one would expect, the report is a breathless tome on the evils of the palm oil industry, on how it negatively affected the planet and on how time is running out before an...
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo | 21 September 2018 | Featured, Opinion
The good intentions of a new political party, the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) to defend the weakening rupiah and efforts to boost state revenues has unfortunately stumbled on the choice of subject to illustrate it – palm oil – a commodity and industry that has...
