Two Girl Scouts go green and petition use of palm oil from Indonesian forests in their cookies
For those of you lovely Hippyshopper readers that are in the UK, you have yet to discover the glorious magic that are Girl Scout Cookies. However, it seems as though they may not be so magical and glorious, after all. Apparently two 12-year old Girl Scouts in Ann Arbor, Michigan, are refusing to sell the delicious cookies because the palm oil used to make them is causing the deforestation of Indonesia. Palm oil is on demand because it's apparently low in trans fat and the two little green warriors, Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishe, have asked the Girl Scouts to stop selling them and to save the trees!
Vorva and Tomtishe started a petition that was even signed by Jane Goodall, and now ABC Bakers, who produce the famous GIrl Scout cookies, say that they will only now buy palm oil from established producers. I hate to say this, but YOU GO GIRL SCOUTS!
This post originally appeared on our sister site, Dollymix.
[via The Frisky]
