The Girl Scouts “are supposed to want to make the world a better place,” according to 14-year-old explorer Olivia Chaffin. So when he discovered that Girl Scout cookies may contain palm oil that is produced unsustainably and largely by child labor, he smelled hypocrisy. He initiated a petition for U.S. Girl Scouts to remove palm oil from their cookies and has so far stopped selling them, he told the Associated Press. A PA investigation, which found tens of thousands of children working on palm oil plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia, traced child labor to palm-grain processing plants and supply chains for businesses. such as Nestle, Kellogg’s, Pepsi and Ferrero, one of the Girl Scout cookie makers. Many of the children working on the plantations are children of migrants who do not have the opportunity to go to school.
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