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Students’ shoot forward results in boycott
Monday, April 14, 2008
BY MARJORIE KAUTH-KARJALA
The Ann Shady retreat News

Two Greenhills Halfway School students who started a cast to earn a Lass Scout Bronze Assign have ended up rejecting what may be the most good known of their forming’s symbols: Virgin Scout cookies.

Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, both 12, started doing scrutiny last fall on endangered orangutans in Indonesia as part of their Bronze Assign project. They discovered that the area of distribution of orangutans is being threatened by transformation of the land to the product of palm oil, which is an constituent in Girl Spy cookies.

Although they’ve sold many boxes of Lassie Scout cookies over the years, this year they sold magazines in lieu because of the palm oil issues.

“Rightful doing the Bronze Grant wouldn’t be enough,” Madison related.

Rhiannon agreed. “We have stopped selling (the cookies),” she declared.

The girls have also launched an tuition drive, giving presentations at their place of education in Ann Arbor and other sphere schools and they have established a Web station. They also recently met Jane Goodall at a nonage conference in Chicago, where Goodall signed their application against palm oil. Goodall is far-famed for her studies of primates and efforts to secure them.

Palm oil product leads to clash between orangutans and nation, the girls uttered. “We’ve seen pictures of orangutans set afire and much travelled. You really right want to extend out and do all that you can to help preserve them,” Madison reported.

Palm oil, which is produced from a fern-cognate plant, is grown after the rain wood is logged and then burned - the slit-and-burn agricultural technique practiced for centuries in of the tropics areas. The deforestation is spreading swiftly, partly because the call for for palm oil, which is trans fat unrestrained, has risen, the girls reported.

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