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Child labor in palm oil industry tied to popular U.S. brands, including Girl Scout cookies

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. ....

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A tale of two children

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 sold by leading Western food and cosmetics brands.
Ima is among the estimated tens of thousands of children working alongside their parents in Indonesia and Malaysia, which supply 85% of the world s most consumed vegetable oil. An Associated Press investigation found most earn little or no pay and are routinely exposed to toxic chemicals and other dangerous conditions. Some never go to school or learn to read and write. Others are smuggled across borders and left vulnerable ....

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Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies | News, Sports, Jobs

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A child carries palm kernels collected from the ground across a creek at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Child labor has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry. Though often denied or minimized as kids simply helping their families on weekends or after school, it has been identified as a problem by human rights groups, the United Nations and the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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 sold by leading Western food and cosmetics brands. ....

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Malaysian palm oil harvested by children used in North American girl scout cookies

Published Tuesday, December 29, 2020 6:26AM EST
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 sold by leading Western food and cosmetics brands.
Ima is among the estimated tens of thousands of children working alongside their parents in Indonesia and Malaysia, which supply 85% of the world s most consumed vegetable oil. An Associated Press investigation found most earn little or no pay and are routinely exposed to toxic chemicals and other dangerous conditions. Some never go to school or learn to read and write. Others are smuggled across borders and l ....

United States , New Zealand , Malaysia General , Nageeb Wahab , Olivia Chaffin , Soes Hindharno , Dan Strechay , Glorene Das , Kartika Manurung , Robin Averbeck , Newmark Graduate School Of Journalism , Malaysian Palm Oil Association , Girl Scouts , Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil , United Nations , Rainforest Action Network , Malaysia Ministry Of Plantation Industries , Un International Labor Organization , Mcgraw Center , Indonesia Manpower Ministry , Girl Scout , Associated Press , Thin Mints , Business Journalism , Graduate School , Labor Organization ,

Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies | Taiwan News

2020/12/29 13:04
A child carries palm kernels collected from the ground across a creek at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Child lab.
A child carries palm kernels collected from the ground across a creek at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Child labor has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry. Though often denied or minimized as kids simply helping their families on weekends or after school, it has been identified as a problem by human rights groups, the United Nations and the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) ....

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