Okay, for the record, I was a Girl Scout. I sold the cookies, I got the badges, I went to the camp. I was never super into it, nor did I hate it. It was just one of the activities I did growing up. I'm saying this because I want you to know I have no personal vendetta against the Girl Scouts, even though I keep reporting on the downsides of their damn cookies.
So two Michigan Girl Scouts are refusing to sell cookies, because they care about endangered orangutans. The cookies have palm oil in them, and the production of palm oil is contributing to deforestation and the destruction of the Indonesian orangutan's habitat. The girls, Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, learned about palm oil production while doing research for a project, and since their project aims to raise money to help the orangutans, they felt selling the cookies would go against their goals. Madison says, "We've seen pictures of
orangutans set afire and beaten. You
really want to reach out and do all you can to help save them." So far these girls have done more to save the endangered animals than most adults, bless their hearts.
