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Two Girl Scouts Stand Up for Orangutans by Not Selling Cookies

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I did not purchase any Girl Scout cookies this year because there are only three kinds that are vegan - Thanks-A-Lot, Cinna-Spins, and Lemonades. None of these appealed to me. Turns out, I am not the only one who avoided Girl Scout cookies this year, and my reasoning is not the only reasoning for people not to buy them.

12-year-old Michigan Girl Scouts Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen chose not to sell cookies this year. girlscouts.jpg

The middle school girls have been working on earning their Bronze Award (third highest Girl Scout honor), including researching endangered orangutans in Indonesia. Madison and Rhiannon soon learned that the production of an ingredient used in Girl Scout cookies - palm oil - was threatening the orangutans’ natural habitat. They were neither okay with thus, nor willing to just accept the situation quietly.

These are certainly to be some powerful advocates for animals and the environment when they grow up! They are already making such a huge impact having: chosen not to sell cookies this year, created education presentations and material, selected to continue with the topic for their Silver Award (second highest honor), and even started a petition that includes the signature of Jane Goodall.

You can read more about Madison and Rhiannon’s fight for the orangutans in their local paper - the Ann Arbor News, at the Web site of Orangutan Outreach, or by visiting the Web site dedicated to their project - Save the Orangutans.


Photo taken by LEISA THOMPSON, for THE ANN ARBOR NEWS.


Posted in All Posts, Animal Rights, Kids, News, Other Animal/Veg*n Org. on April 16th, 2008

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2 Responses to “Two Girl Scouts Stand Up for Orangutans by Not Selling Cookies”

  1. Allie’s Answers » Blog Archive » What’s Going On Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    [...] Without Meat applauds Girl Scouts refusing the sell cookies to save the [...]

  2. N. & J. Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    I wish I had heard about this sooner so that I could have encouraged other girl scouts to refuse to sell the cookies. Unfortunately I did buy some because the Girl Scouts have changed the way they run this fundraise and troops have to sell every box they get instead of being able to return them to corporation. This means what they don’t see the troop has to come out of pocket for.

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