Independent (UK): The Government has joined calls for Britain’s best-selling household groceries to use sustainable palm oil. The Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the Government was “greatly concerned’ by the impact of palm oil production in South-east Asia, where it causes extensive deforestation and threatens the survival of the orangutan and other rare animals. Producers chop down forests in Sumatra and Borneo to plant high-yielding oil palms whose oil is poured into food, soaps and …