And the pendulum swings the other way. Mail & Guardian is now writing that palm oil, once hailed as a green wonder-fuel and as a driver of South-East Asia’s economic prosperity, is now not so much the favourite.

Now seen as a biofuel baddie — palm oil biodiesel generates 10 times more carbon dioxide than petrol — it is also blamed for deforestation and for driving species such as the orangutan to the verge of extinction.

Palm oil is getting hit from all sides of late. We’re talking deforestation, and some pretty angry orangutans.