Girl Scouts Pledge To Reduce Palm Oil In Cookies

MSN.com:

A five-year campaign by two Michigan girls to make Girl Scout cookies more environmentally friendly has prompted the youth organization to curb the use of palm oil in its iconic baked goods.

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[PalmOilTruth]

11:40 AM on 10/20/2011

It is regrettable that the Girl Scouts, as an organization should succumb to this trade bloc promoting activism/pressure.

It is obvious that the two girl scouts, Rhiannon Tomtishen, 15, and Madison Vorva, 16 have been used by adult activists. It is inconceivable that the two could have been politically discerning at the tender age of 10 and 11 which was when they began their campaign. It is sad but the Palm Oil Truth Foundation can reveal that the adult manipulators are from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN).

RAN is the same organization that had to sheepishly remove from their website their wild allegation that palm oil cultivation would lead to the extinction of the orangutan by 2011. 2011 is now upon us and the orangutan population in the wild has grown instead of going extinct when new tribes of more than 2000 wild apes were found in East Kalimantan, as reported by National Geographic. With roughly 50,000 orangutans thought to remain in the wild, the new find could add 5 percent to the world’s known orangutan numbers, said Erik Meijaard, senior ecologist for the Nature Conservancy in Indonesia.

It is well known that palm oil is grown on only 0.23% of the world’s agricultural land and yet is the world’s leading supplier of edible oil, supplying an incredible 30% of the world’s edible oil. This fact alone should alert any objective observer that something does not jive with all the palm oil and deforestation hype.

[Spuki]

10:31 PM on 09/30/2011

Good for them for doing something to make a difference!

[dixiebird333]

08:28 PM on 09/30/2011

Yes good job girls, you made us all proud !!

[catboycolo]

04:15 PM on 09/30/2011

The girls in green are going green, finally! Kudos to the two who fought for this, they are real heroes!