- Target:
- Girl Scout members, council, troop leaders. and cookie buyers
- Region:
- United States of America
Hi my name is Sophia. I am a girl scout and have been for almost half my life. I was on the news for selling girl scout cookies in all fifty states. Shortly after I was asked about what was in girl scout cookies, I did not know the answer so I did some digging and you will not believe what I found about one of the ingredients. Palm oil in girl scout cookies is against everything girl scouts stand for. Not only is palm oil a huge cause of climate change and mass amounts of deforestation, but it is also a leading cause for orangutan extinction. On top of all of that their have been reports of child labor, forced labor, and slavery in the harvesting of palm fruit. Even though the boxes say sustainable the mixed sustainable oil can be mixed with other things that are no better. To be clear no child labor was used in the making of girl scout cookies but the ingredients are a different case. We are all people and we deserve to be treated like the people we are. In Asia and Africa people are being treated terribly for scraps of food. Things need to change people have tried to make a difference with sustainable palm oil, but over half the market remains untouched because no one wants to pay for it.
I understand that people like girl scout cookies and other packaged foods, but with time once something better becomes the new normal people will like that just as much. I do not propose that we get rid of palm oil altogether because that would ruin the lives of the people in Asia and Africa who need palm oil. Everyone says that life is not fair and we just half to live with the way the world is, but that is not true we should strive for a world that we want to live in, a world that we want to raise the next generation in. We can change the way the world works we can change the way the world is, people have done it in the past now it is our turn. I need your help to make the dream of better safer palm oil a reality and changing the ways we rely on palm oil in the US is a good start.
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The Palm oil vs Earth petition to Girl Scout members, council, troop leaders. and cookie buyers was written by sophia hammond and is in the category Environment at GoPetition.