A pair of local girl scouts are making good on Ann Arbor's eco cred while chafing their parent organization. Looks like all those yummy Girl Scout cookies (...can't live without Thin Mints...) are made with rainforest
ravaging palm oil, home to the endangered orangutan.
Excerpt:"The issue started back in 2006 when two bright, motivated and well-meaning sixth grader Girl Scouts from Ann Arbor, Mich. — just the sorts of girls the GSUSA is supposed to champion and nurture — realized the cookies they were selling contained palm oil, much of which comes from Indonesia and Malaysia where farmers are clear cutting rainforests to plant palm trees. These forests are an important habitat for many species, but the orangutans, the most intelligent and human-like of the apes, are particularly threatened."
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