According to 14-year-old Boy Scout Olivia Chaffin, the Girl Scouts are supposed to “make the world a better place”. So when she discovered that Girl Scout cookies contain palm oil that is not sustainably and largely produced by child labor, she smelled hypocrisy. She started a petition to get the US Girl Scouts to get palm oil out of their cookies, and until then she has stopped selling it, she told the Associated Press. An AP investigation, which found tens of thousands of children working on palm oil plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia, traced the child labor to palm kernel processing plants and to supply chains for major companies such as Nestle, Kellogg’s, Pepsi and Ferrero, one of the makers of Girl Scout cookies. Many of the children who work on the plantations are children of migrants who do not have the opportunity to go to school.
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