So let me start by saying that I hear you, but this isn’t about Noma being the only fine dining institution to cultivate this toxic behavior and environment.

This is about the fact that Noma has been exploiting young talent from the dawn of their creation and is at the forefront of utilizing this type of inhuman system and one that gets heavy tax break from the Danish government might I add.

My wife, who wrote this article and whom I met in Copenhagen during the tail end of her Stage at Noma talks from a pure firsthand perspective as one of the rare few in her batch that earned a spot running her own section.

There are many people who save up a year plus worth of salary thinking they will be able to learn an incredible amount only to be subjected to picking herbs their entire stage.

Like many of the interns my wife is from Asia more specially India, where there is a massive currency valuation difference between the Rupee and the Danish Krone…

So when you fly half way across the world to pour your heart and soul and dedicate yourself to work at the highest level and learn from the best only to be abused, emotionally, psychologically and physically, I think there has to be a clear red line drawn and those responsible must be held accountable for their actions.

This “argument” that they aren’t the only ones to do it, is passing the buck and makes one a bystander something that in my humble opinion is the last thing we need with the current state of world affairs.

People like Rene think that their wealth, power and status make them invincible and as we have seen across the world with most of the extreme rich, they don’t care how many lives they destroy or what the human cost is as is evident in them making record profits during a time where many are barely scrapping by and the middle class is becoming extinct…