Girl Scouts refuse to sell cookies
A couple of Girl Scouts in the US have refused to sell their share of Girl Scout cookies this year because of the use of palm oil in them, Fox News reports.
Hey, good for them! It’s about time some serious effort was taken to remove palm oil from food items - farm the oil palm encourages rainforest deforestation and ruins the habitat of native species.
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve had Girl Scout cookies, and while I’m not normally in the habit of automatically rejecting a particular food on ethical grounds (although I have started buying lots more fair trade items when possible, along with organic of course) and palm oil does provide many many poor people with a living, overall it’s one of those things that I’m just generally against, but of course there are arguments for using it instead of rape seed and other ‘bio’ products.
This is one of those ‘eco-questions’ you could argue with yourself for and against depending on your mood, like using loads of water to rinse out a peanut butter jar before you put it in the recycling bin. I guess it’s one of those things you’d have to make up your mind about…
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