Jersey City Girl Scouts troop takes stand against child abuse by boycotting annual cookie sale
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
Jersey City Girl Scouts Troop 12026 leader Gina Verdibello, right, with the troop during a previous cookie sale. The troop is boycotting the sale this year. (Troop 12026 photo)EJA
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Gina Verdibello is worried about how she’ll pay for the patches for her Girl Scouts Troop 12026. And how the troop’s annual Halloween party and the girls’ annual membership fees will be funded.
But it’s a small price to pay, the co-trooper leader says, for the stand her troop members are taking by boycotting the annual sale of the iconic Girl Scout cookies. When the roughly two dozen members of the troop learned the cookies are made with non-sustainable palm oil much of it produced with child labor they decided to join a boycott started by a girl scout from Tennessee.