Under existing food labelling rules in Australia, palm oil can be classified generically as a ‘vegetable oil' on labels. The Community Affairs Committee of the Australian Senate is currently conducting an inquiry into the Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling — Palm Oil) Bill 2010...

If we are to be successful in our goal of generating legal systems that genuinely serve to protect the integrity of Earth's ecosystems, it will be necessary to confront directly the growth model of progress that is currently driving the global economy toward ecological catastrophe. Since the...