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Girl Scouts Protest Palm Oil, Refuse to Sell Cookies

foxnews.com — Girl Scouts may be best known for their cookies, but two Ann Arbor, Mich., middle school students sold magazines this year instead of the organization ’s trademark product because they found out an endangered species is threatened by an ingredient in Girl Scout cookies, The Grand Rapids Press reports.

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  • dukeochutney, on 04/28/2008, -5/+33good now i dont have to ignore them while they annoy me at the grocery store.
    • Carmilla07, on 04/28/2008, -2/+26How can you ignore samoas and thin mints? Possibly the two best cookies ever invented.
      • frmatc, on 04/28/2008, -1/+11Dugg for samoas. You can keep the thin mints.
      • legoalert33, on 04/28/2008, -1/+8Dugg for thin mints!
      • litolist, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5Dugg for samoas too, although I prefer the name Caramel deLites. :-P
      • WNW3, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1I love funny monkeys, and orangutans are the funniest of them all!

        I am aware they are apes, no one likes a species nerd Scully.
    • Picaroon, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5Yeah, and the prices are amazingly reasonable. I'd pay double for charitable and extremely delicious cookies (But don't tell the girl scouts that)
  • orion846, on 04/28/2008, -3/+40this information has changed my life, thank god for digg
  • bonkeykong, on 04/28/2008, -1/+22If the Girl Scout's won't sell their cookies, I'll have to take it for my self.
    • fxu1989, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5Well, they don't sell cookies anymore.

      Now they sell magazines. Still killing trees and habitats.

      Way to go!
      • bonkeykong, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3The environment won't be the only thing getting raped.
  • lickmyback, on 04/28/2008, -11/+94Someone should tell them where paper comes from...
    • skipdog172, on 04/28/2008, -5/+44IT COMES FROM TREE FARMS! OH MY THE HORROR!!!! lol
    • antisthenex, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5...or the Amazon rain forest.
    • morpheus69, on 04/29/2008, -3/+1Paper is made from trees, which are a renewable resource. And anyway, thin mints aren't destroying the planet. Who is destroying the planet? European environmentalists! The reason palm oil demand has shot up exponentially over the past few years is that European governments have implemented policies favoring the use of "bio diesel" in automobiles. The majority of European bio diesel is made from palm oil, most of which is imported from Southeast Asia.
      • morpheus69, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Dugg down but noone is refuting my argument...It sounds like people just don't want to hear the truth! Check it out for yourself, here is what Wikipedia has to say:
        "The debate over the energy balance of biodiesel is ongoing. Transitioning fully to biofuels could require immense tracts of land if traditional food crops are used (although non food crops can be utilized). In tropical regions, such as Malaysia and Indonesia, oil palm is being planted at a rapid pace to supply growing biodiesel demand in Europe and other markets."
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
        Wikipedia,,,FTW!
  • robbob, on 04/28/2008, -3/+6Do they have no respect for the business?
    • altgeeky1, on 04/28/2008, -1/+10You do know that girl scouts EXIST to sell cookies, right? It is a multi-BILLION dollar business. No office is complete without parents working for their kids in this enterprise.
      • petrodollar, on 04/28/2008, -3/+6They do a lot more than sell cookies. Right wingers hate them though because they teach the girls feminist, multicultural ***** instead of teaching them to love jesus and hate gays like the boy scouts do.

        So they rip on the girl scouts for selling cookies but never bother the boy scouts about their Trail's End popcorn.

        http://www.trails-end.com/TEPublic/scouts/fillitup ...
        • mrsteveman1, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1***** popcorn
          • petrodollar, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Have ever had Trail's End though? That's some good stuff.
          • mrsteveman1, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I haven't. Is it covered in sugary goodness?
  • intent, on 04/28/2008, -2/+16Everyone's an activist...
    • JointVenture, on 04/28/2008, -1/+2But their room, home's, and neighborhoods are a ***** mess.

      But hey its not as much fun to fix yourself when you can focus on fixing others.
    • poiuytrewq44, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1These girls don't know what they're talking about. They don't give a damn about the people. Yes, the orangutan is an endearing cause but when you have slave conditions managing the oil tappers, then you have serious problems.
  • Rendonsmug, on 04/28/2008, -4/+49In the choice between of orangutans and girl scout cookies... oh damn, I love my thin mints.
  • Mafuzzy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+41Join the Darkside. They have cookies
    • iJump, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2... and cake!
      • brianara3, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1The cake is a LIE!
        • talonstriker, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1no the cake is real, but the buttsecks is a lie.
          • gurudrew, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1No, the cake is a lie and the buttsecks was supposed to be a surprise. Good Job.
          • duccodude, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1No, the buttsecks was supposed to be the lie and the suprise was supposed to be the cake.
          • morpheus69, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Just have buttsecks with the cake and be done with it!
  • mogebier, on 04/28/2008, -20/+10This is old news.
    And they are tree-hugging hippy idiots.
    Cookies are good.
    F the "endangered" species, GIMMEE THIN MINTS!!!
  • TremorX, on 04/28/2008, -3/+15No thin mints?! Is there some way we can pin this on Bush?
    • ArmandoM, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2Not sure.. but I'm positive he could find a way to choke on a thin mint.
      • mjwhip, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5Don't break it into bite size pieces for him.
  • bonds, on 04/28/2008, -1/+12Girls Scouts of America, why do you hate the orangutan?!!
  • Eivo, on 04/28/2008, -10/+5Just don't ***** with my Thin Mints bitches.
  • ausfahrt, on 04/28/2008, -8/+11The palm trees themselves are freakin endangered. So good going scouts I'm behind this.
    • altgeeky1, on 04/28/2008, -1/+13You do know that millions of acreage is being torn up to plant palm trees right?
      Palm trees are about as 'endangered' as farm-raised shrimp, and for the same reasons...
      • orblivion, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Yeah I don't think there's such thing as an endangered species that's in economic demand. I do feel sorry for those apes though
        • boredrph, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7this is why instead of an endagered species list we should come up with tasty recipies. That way people will want to eat more of them... making us find a way to raise more of that animal!
      • ausfahrt, on 04/28/2008, -3/+3Depends on what part of the world your talking about. There are countries where the natural palm forests are being ravaged for cheap palm oil for our candy bars and cheap ***** foods, so planting palm tree farms does not help this cause. The natural environments are being destroyed and along with it many animal and other plant species are becoming endangered.
      • alclone, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Palm trees ARE endangered! Just look at the prices of those cookies! They are too high :(
    • morpheus69, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Dudes, the rise in palm oil demand has nothing to do with Girl Scout cookies, candy bars or cheap ***** foods. Who's to blame? European environmentalists! The reason palm oil demand has shot up exponentially over the past few years is that European governments have implemented policies favoring the use of "bio diesel" in automobiles. The majority of European bio diesel is made from palm oil, most of which is imported from Southeast Asia.
  • smacksaw, on 04/28/2008, -10/+3***** them. They finally get rid of hydrogenated trans-fat with Palm Oil (or so they keep telling me every year they are going to do) and now this? Why not sell something that isn't bad for people? Should you be financing your little club at the expense of the health of others? Aren't we fat and unhealthy enough as it is? At least PALM OIL isn't that bad for you.
    • orblivion, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Well, it's not that *great* either. Keep in mind that the reason it replaces hydrogenated oil is that it's quite saturated.
    • aethelberga, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1The Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts sell apples (whether they're organic, free-range, fair trade apples, I couldn't say). No one buys them.
    • hotpepper, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4"Why not sell something that isn't bad for people?"

      Uh . . . you do realize you're talking about cookies, right?
    • MsArtGeek, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1palm oil is one of the most saturated fats out there, and the only vegetable fat that is so saturated it's actually solid at room temperature.
  • Lancer28, on 04/28/2008, -2/+32Buried for being 2 weeks late: http://digg.com/environment/Every_box_of_Thin_Mint ...
    • BoneStamp, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2I came to find and digg this comment.
  • Lavarock, on 04/28/2008, -6/+11***** off Girl Scouts.
  • lava, on 04/28/2008, -5/+15Yeah, it's the girl scouts, and TOTALLY not their parents who are protesting.
    • suavivity, on 04/28/2008, -3/+3It actually is the two girls.

      They can ***** off tho cause I can think of a million better things to protest than this.
    • ZenMojo, on 04/28/2008, -4/+2It is. Sad that 8 year olds are more concerned with the world than the average digger.
      • talonstriker, on 04/28/2008, -1/+4What are you talking about? I've dugg stories on Darfur, Tibet, among others. If digging articles isn't activism, I don't know what is....
  • OJdidntdoIT, on 04/28/2008, -16/+7Is it wrong that my palms and oil usually meet my penis when i see girl scouts?
    • sinkhead, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10Yes, yes it is.
    • Carmilla07, on 04/28/2008, -1/+12What's with the trend of pedophile like comments on digg lately? It’s creepy and disturbing.
    • coachmcguirk, on 04/28/2008, -1/+4You realize girl scouts are typically like 12 or younger, right?
      • OJdidntdoIT, on 04/28/2008, -10/+6*****, thought this was about the boy scouts...mad bad...digg me down.
  • zadadka, on 04/28/2008, -1/+8And will they also think twice before applying liberal quantities of mom's Max Factor (and the like) Palm Oil products ?
  • tont0r, on 04/28/2008, -3/+9Submitter refuses to check for dupe stories, Man gets buried for pointing it out.
  • malcolmlo, on 04/28/2008, -3/+6Hell yah! You go girl!...scouts!

    Looks like these girls really are learning valuable skills and ideas even if it means challenging their own organization. Honestly I think the "girl scouts leaders" should be proud of these girls, and make their best efforts to address and fix the problem.
  • dizturbd2, on 04/28/2008, -2/+4Must....Have...Thin...Mints!
  • Birukun, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2So they keep pushing the Cottonseed oil on us - you know, the loosely regulated, Agent Orange laced oil that seeps from the cotton gins......
  • jbenson2, on 04/28/2008, -8/+3Just another typical Faux news article. Buried!
  • fulibs, on 04/28/2008, -2/+7are the cookies made with real girl scouts?
  • TheDudeDiggs, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5wasn't this on digg last week?
  • purkel, on 04/28/2008, -6/+4palm oil is used in a million different things... even if you boycott girl scout cookies... they will just sell palm oil for something else. nothing will change. such a stupid story.
    • iloveliberals, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0What they're doing has *good intentions*, and for many people, that's what it's all about.
    • maanwi, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Your attitude is defeatist -things do change. Trans-fats from partially hydrogenated oils are being phased out, and palm oil will head that direction, too.
  • TomT223, on 04/28/2008, -2/+3The best cookies are made with lard.
    • Farnn, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Personally I prefer cookies made with horse tallow.
  • thoth5327, on 04/28/2008, -0/+13Palm oil is actually pretty *****. Throughout Malaysia rainforest is being clearfelled to make way for palm plantations for the biofuel industry. It's painfully, awfully ironic.
  • designer, on 04/28/2008, -4/+5Why should I care about this?
  • miketoshach, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2ann arbor ftw!
  • Picaroon, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7How many poor farmers make a decent living off palm oil? Honest question.
    • thoth5327, on 04/28/2008, -2/+3Heaps. However, it's via clearfelling rainforest. Whole thousand kilometre swaths of Jungle are palm plantations, catering to the "green biofuel" revolution... Its all *****. It's a great idea, ***** up by realities and poor accounting. This is how we save the world, by burning our rainforest to plant ***** palm trees..
      • morpheus69, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Umm, it's not "our" rain forest, it's the Malaysians'. If they want to use that land to try to improve their lives, who are we arrogant Western environmentalists to tell them they have to stay in poverty because their rain forests are essential to suck up all the carbon emissions from our SUVs and might hold the cure to the cancers that we wouldn't have if we didn't lead such sedentary lives.
  • hybernate20, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3Didn't I already read this somewhere like 2 or 3 weeks ago?
    • morpheus69, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Did somebody already make this comment like 5, 6 comments above?
  • davidkeithjones, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7Sell guns and ammo, its a solid industry. Just sayin....
  • Jsmuli2, on 04/28/2008, -1/+2It's the thin mint revolution
  • S5Z2, on 04/28/2008, -2/+4Damn that Bustedtees girl with the White "Canada Americas Hat" shirt is ***** hot! I'd so do her! =OGC
  • jerrycan, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Chocolate covered mint crack. I never see them door to door anymore. But there is plenty from girl scout parents at work. HANDY.
  • piratearggghhh, on 04/28/2008, -1/+15I love the Digg tough guy attitudes towards the environment and the girl scouts, calling them bitches and ***** and telling them to ***** off - Thanks, you guys make the world a much better place.
    • malcolmlo, on 04/28/2008, -1/+8Agreed. I know they are just kids trying to be cool, but it is kind of sad. Makes me hope they are just joking and this isnt their real attitude towards life, worldly issues, and the environment. If so, we are in a sad, sad state.
    • talonstriker, on 04/28/2008, -2/+6bleh, diggers are double-faced with most things. In one article they'll be preaching about one thing and on other they'll be arguing the exact opposite.
      But in this case, I think the insults are mostly tongue-in-cheek.
    • slappy83, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1Thanks for your input aging hippie liberal douches.
  • Midtowner, on 04/28/2008, -3/+4Lots of palm oil comes out of Indonesia and other tropical countries where farming is a huge emerging business. There are people today who just a few years ago had no work and no prospects to ever have work who now have comfortable lifestyles thanks to palm oil. If countries such as Indonesia are ever going to catch up with other industrialized nations, utilizing their natural resources for agriculture has to be part of the process.

    Palm oil is economical to produce, it creates jobs, it's healthier, and yes, to grow it, you need a tropical climate, so rainforests will have to yield. I'll happily sacrifice the habitat of a few monkeys so that a few humans can have better lives. That's a good trade any day.
    • jerrycan, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3Bloody monkeys. what are they good for other than smoking cigarettes and riding minibikes...
    • suavivity, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2fishing with spears?
    • cobbwobbles, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4So you're saying they should cut and burn down the priceless precious resource of their natural rainforest, in order to liquidate it for temporary wealth...the rainforest IS their natural resource, if they were given the right scientific aid to help them develop medicine out of it, these rainforest nations would be rolling in cash and enjoying their priceless natural heritage.
      • morpheus69, on 04/29/2008, -1/+1This whole "rain forests are a treasure trove of miracle cures" ***** argument makes me sick. If that were the case, pharmaceutical companies would already be paying people in these countries to preserve the forest and scour it for these "miracle cures" that could easily make them tens of billions of dollars. The fact that it's not happening proves that it's just not real.
        Also, if they did find some sort of cure in their forest, how much of the drug companies profits do you think would actually filter back to the local people? ***** all, that's how much. The drug companies would just learn how to reproduce the chemical in the lab. Since you can't patent a naturally occurring chemical, the locals would basically be screwed.
        These people are much better off farming the land, hands down. We have no right to tell them they can't just so we can feel good about saving some monkeys.
      • Midtowner, on 04/29/2008, -1/+1Why is the wealth created by a palm plantation temporary? Since when was a palm plantation temporary?

        Surely, Indonesia, etc. like the U.S. has, or could have a system of national parks where nature is allowed to remain in a pristine, preserved state.

        The people of a country have a right to their own country's natural resources so that they may try to live a better life. If that means making a few monkey-steaks, then so be it. People have children to feed, we are the dominant species on this planet, too bad, so sad if you happen to be an animal in an Indonesian rainforest.

        A stable economy in a developing country like that is the difference between a civilized society and a future totalitarian state. Which do you think is in the world's best interest? With a developed economy comes economic prosperity. With economic prosperity comes Democratic reform. With Democratic reform, we end up with a nation which is more responsive to the needs of its people and better able to provide for those needs.

        Think about how the U.S. developed into what it is today... it sure as heck wasn't by leaving its vast lands fallow.
    • bffoley, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2I'll sacrifice every goddamn monkey in Indonesia with my bare hands for Thin Mints.
  • Donoram, on 04/28/2008, -2/+3Wasn't this a front page story like a week ago? Holy crap. Some people may have the brains of birds.
  • evilelf2407, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10What am i gonna do with 40 subscriptions to vibe?
    • czeman, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2They're offering special deals on just about ever porn mag out there, so choose a few!
  • oceanographer, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2The devastation these two girls have caused to the economics of the Girl Scout Foundation is irreperable. How dare they...
  • PEMDAS, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5I'm going to protest by not buying the cookies that they aren't selling.
  • Tyrghast, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5Sucks to be in Ann Arbor. "Psssst! Hey buddy! Wanna buy a thin mint?"
  • czeman, on 04/28/2008, -0/+9You'd think they'd be more concerned with the fact that Girl Scouts are a key ingredient.
  • biggdeedubb, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3Just put the cookies up for sale online. Then I don't have to deal with the damn Girls Scouts anyway.
  • WraTH017, on 04/28/2008, -8/+3I'm tempted to bury this just because it's from Faux-news, which is to me a far less credible source than The Onion. Regretably, I already dugg it.

  • theradical, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Yeah because there's no poisonous acid or anything in magazine paper.
  • jeschelon, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1Old news - Digg something new!
  • stevensj2, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Thin Mints?!?!

    It's all about Carmel Delights, or as us old-schoolers call them, Somoas.
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