Girl researchers “should aim to transform the world into a better place,” according to 14-year-old researcher Olivia Chaffin. So when she learned that Girl Scout cookies may contain palm oil, which is produced unsustainably and largely through child labor, she smelled hypocrisy. She started a petition to get Girl Scouts in the US to remove palm oil from their cookies and until then stopped selling them, she told the Associated Press. An AP survey of tens of thousands of children working on palm oil plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia tracked the work of children in palm kernel processing plants and supply chains for major companies such as Nestle, Kellogg’s, Pepsi and Ferrero, one of the producers of Girl Scout cookies. Many of the children working on the plantations are children of migrants who do not have the chance to go to school.
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