According to 14-year-old girl scout Olivia Chaffin, the Girl Scouts are ‘supposed to make the world a better place’. So when she realizes that Girl Scout cookies can contain palm oil that is unsustainably and largely produced by child labor, she smells hypocrisy. She started a petition to have the Girl Scouts of the USA remove palm oil from their cookies, and until then she stopped selling it, she told the Associated Press. An AP investigation, which found that tens of thousands of children work on palm oil plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia, tracked the child labor to palm kernel factories and the supply of chains for large companies such as Nestle, Kellogg’s, Pepsi and Ferrero, one of manufacturers of Girl Scout cookies. Many of the children who work on the plantations are children of migrants who do not have the chance to go to school.
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