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It’s Girl Scout Cookie time! Thin Mints, Tagalogs and other scrumptious Girl Scout Cookie varieties are now for sale in many parts of the country as the 2021 Girl Scout Cookie season kicks off. Start dates vary by location, but many Girl Scouts of USA councils launched their annual cookie sales on Jan. 8, with others beginning later this month. In-person...

You can still buy Girl Scouts cookies in South Florida despite COVID. Heres how Howard Cohen, The Miami Herald Jan. 6—With all apologies to Publix for borrowing their "Where Shopping is a Pleasure" slogan, but one of the pleasures of grocery shopping in South Florida after the New Year is seeing tables outside of supermarket front doors festooned with Girls Scouts cookies. For so many of us, its hard to resist picking up a box (or two or three) and sharing pleasantries with th...

Girl Scout cookies now on sale January 5, 2021 by TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Remember last January, when the Girl Scouts announced that 2020 would be the last year for Thanks-A-Lot cookies? The new Toast-Yay! Girl Scout cookies. (Girl Scouts of the United States of America/TNS) In hindsight, that seems like a sign that the year was going to be about big change. Now, the Girl Scouts have announced the new cookie: Toast Yay!, a French-toast inspired cookie dipped in icing. The new cookie and old favori...

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Illegal child labor may be behind some of the most popular brands of Girl Scout cookies. Demand an immediate investigation into this horrific claim of abuse.

A child helps her parents work on a palm oil plantation in Sabah, Malaysia, in 2018. With little or no access to daycare, some young children in Indonesia and Malaysia follow their parents to the fields, where they are exposed to toxic pesticides and fertilizers. Binsar Bakkara/Associated Press They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children. Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in Jonesborough, Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in...

All is not lost for cookie lovers. While Girl Scouts cannot sell colorful boxes of Thin Mints, Caramel deLites and other goodies in person due to the COVID pandemic, fans can still buy them online, with proceeds directly benefitting local troops. “It’s definitely not the same,” said Girl Scout Jenna Vincenzino when comparing selling online to interacting with customers face-to-face. According to its website, the organization has been selling cookies to finance troop activities since 1917....

An estimated tens of thousands of children work alongside their parents in Indonesia and Malaysia, which supply 85% of the world’s most consumed vegetable oil.

Associated Press A child carries palm kernels collected from the ground across a creek at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2017. Previous Next Wednesday, December 30, 2020 1:00 am Global palm oil industry exploiting child labor AP investigation looks into problem ROBIN McDOWELL and MARGIE MASON | Associated Press They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children. Olivia Chaffin, a Girl S...

ROBIN McDOWELL & MARGIE MASON Associated Press They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children. Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in her troop when she first heard rainforests were being destroyed to make way for ever-expanding palm oil plantations. On one of those plantations a continent away, 10-year-old Ima helped harvest the fruit that makes its way into a dizzying array of products...