Then they go to the units and then the girls go out and sell them door-to-door, if itвЂ™s safe to do so, or from a central place. вЂњThey get baked and first they get shipped to the cookie distributors, who are volunteers, and then the leaders pick them up.

The Girl Guides of Canada said the organization doesnвЂ™t own the recipe, but the cookie manufacturer DARE does, adding it has asked about the use of the ingredient and has been told itвЂ™s essential for the shelf life of the cookies. вЂњSo I am slightly disappointed that they havenвЂ™t decided to do anything.вЂќ вЂњThey said they use sustainable palm oil, which is a very controversial thing of whether palm oil can be sustainable,вЂќ said Bourdages. вЂњI though I would maybe get 500 to 1,000 signatures,вЂќ Bourdages said.Д«ourdages also reached out to the organization to discuss this issue. Palm oil is a key ingredient in a number of baked goods on grocery store shelve, as well as in Girl Guide cookies.Д«ourdages started an online petition to get the Girl Guides of Canada to remove the ingredient from the cookie recipe.ДЄs of Saturday the petition had more than 31,000 signatures, which Bourdages said was a big shock. вЂњI have also learned that they use unethical human right practices and child labour.вЂќ вЂњThe way they extract, they have to drain the peatland which means that they will never be able to replant the forests,вЂќ she said. Based on her research, she said about 98 per cent of IndonesiaвЂ™s forests are expected to be gone by 2022.

Ophelia Bourdages is passionate about ending the use of palm oil, as the extraction process has been linked to deforestation in Indonesia.Д«ourdages said she has been researching this topic since grade five. A 13-year-old girl from Moose Jaw is petitioning the Girl Guides of Canada to remove palm oil from its cookie recipe.

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