12 year old girl scouts Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen of Ann Arbor, Michigan have stopped selling Girl Guide Cookies, and have started an education drive, website and petition against palm oil.
Palm oil production leads to conflict between orangutans and people, the girls said. “We’ve seen pictures of orangutans set afire and beaten.You really just want to reach out and do all that you can to help save them,” Madison told the Ann Arbor News.
– from Treehugger.com by Lloyd Alter
Rainforest land in Indonesia and Malaysia is cleared so that palm oil plantations can be planted. 1,240 miles of rainforest was cleared so that palm oil plantations can be planted. Palm oil is bad for you and the rainforest!
We should fight against companies who use palm oil. The easiest way to do this is to stop buying products with palm oil in it.