Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies

📆 12/29/2020 4:00 AM
📰 The Independent

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An Associated Press investigation has found an army of children toiling beneath a canopy of towering palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, the main suppliers of the world’s most consumed vegetable oil

The Independent would like to keep you informed about offers, events and updates by email, please tick the box if you would like to be contactedShe sometimes worked 12 hours a day, wearing only flip flops and no gloves, crying when the fruit’s razor-sharp spikes bloodied her hands or when scorpions stung her fingers. The loads she carried, sometimes so heavy she would lose her footing, went to one of the very mills feeding into the supply chain of Olivia’s cookies.

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KHShan I also have been avoiding products with palm oil because the rain forests are being obliterated due to it’s harvesting. It ain’t easy, because that crap is in everything these days! BoycottPalmOil ReadTheIngredients

And Nutella.

Of course..

At least they aren't in the brothels!

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Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookiesAn Associated Press investigation has found an army of children toiling beneath a canopy of towering palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, the main suppliers of the world’s most consumed vegetable oil Why Nothing is wholesome anymore. jnaneswari1 Isn’t it all child labor?
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