Girl Scout goes rogue and bakes her own cookies for customers!

[RememberSchiff]

Last year, Sophia a Girl Scout reached her goal of selling official Girl Scout cookies in all 50 states.

However this year she has reconsidered because of one of the ingredients - palm oil.

“So, palm oil causes 2 percent of major deforestation and climate change,” Sophia said, reciting from memory what she found through online research and books. “Because of palm oil, 1,000 to 5,000 orangutans are killed every year. There are also ties to child labor, human trafficking, and slavery in the harvesting of palm fruit.”

Learning all this spurred Sophia to action: “One of our main things in Girl Scouts, it's in our pledge, trying to make the world a better place. And I don’t think that the ingredient in Girl Scout cookies is doing that, so I don’t support it, and I wanted to try to do something else.”

Doing something else, in this case, meant baking her own cookies.

In January, Sophia went door to door, offering her neighbors a chance to buy traditional Girl Scout cookies, or cookies she would make using her grandma’s recipes and ones found online, in her own kitchen.

...(she) received orders for 44 dozen cookies that would be baked by her — an actual Girl Scout. Both versions carried the same price tag: $5.

Before embarking on her rogue cookie sales, Sophia got the okay from her local troop and troop leader, but she didn’t check with the regional Girl Scout council, which coordinates cookie sales. Easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission. (IMHO, we need to make her a member of scouter.com)

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More at source link:

https://www.vermontpublic.org/2023-03-08/why-a-cookie-recipe-made-this-nh-girl-scout-go-rogue

Edited March 9, 2023 by RememberSchiff
typo.. 50 states

[SSScout]

Good for her. I don't think I'd worry so much about her GSUSA local council so much as the county health department. I know around here, they take a dim view of selling food stuff in even a "semi professional" manner.   Church bake sale, not so much.  Cake table auction, mmmmm okay.  Publicity, garnering future delivery orders...