{"id":1685,"date":"2013-10-16T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2015-08-05T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:51:58","slug":"your-food-is-destroying-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/your-food-is-destroying-my-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Your food is destroying my home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A girl tells Strawberry the orangutan that she eats peanut butter. Its ingredients are peanuts, sugar, salt, palm oil. Strawberry looks sad, signs to girl, &#8220;Your food is destroying my home.&#8221; Palm oil is used in cookies and crackers (including Girl Scout Cookies), peanut butter and many other foods. Irreplaceable rainforests and orangutan habitat are being destroyed to produce it. Vote with your dollars \u2013 stop buying any products made with palm oil.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"600\" height= \"450\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G32YehcdUAw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Girl Scouts Madi &#038; Rhiannon have been fighting to rid Girl Scout Cookies of Palm Oil since 2007 when they were 11 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Madi and Rhiannon\u2019s inspiring story began catching on with articles appearing in online versions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annarbor.com\/news\/slave-labor-and-thin-mints-two-renegade-girl-scouts-are-asking-the-question\/\">AnnArbor.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/04\/28\/in-the-news-hotels-cookies-and-a-different-type-of-latte\/\">TIME<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/04\/28\/in-the-news-hotels-cookies-and-a-different-type-of-latte\/\">CNN<\/a>. But it was the front-page coverage in the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704281504576327733659636782.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> that launched the issue into primetime. This amazing piece was quickly followed by a whirlwind media tour that included live national television appearances on <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/959442347001\/\">ABC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=7367161n&amp;tag=related;photovideo\">CBS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/959442347001\/\">Fox News<\/a> as well as a powerful blog post on Huffington Post by Josie Carothers, granddaughter of the inventor of Girl Scout cookies, titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/josephine-carothers\/why-the-inventor-of-girl-_b_866369.html\">Why the Inventor of Girl Scout Cookies Would Be Ashamed Today<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Girl-Scouts-against-palm-oil-Madi-Rhiannon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Girl-Scouts-against-palm-oil-Madi-Rhiannon.png\" alt=\"Girl Scouts against palm oil Madi &amp; Rhiannon\" width=\"902\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Girl-Scouts-against-palm-oil-Madi-Rhiannon.png 902w, https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Girl-Scouts-against-palm-oil-Madi-Rhiannon-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere are actions you can take to stop orangutan habitat and rainforest destruction:<br \/>\n<strong>1<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Vote with your dollars \u2013 stop buying any products made with palm oil.<br \/>\n<strong>2<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Post this message on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PepsiCo\">Pepsi&#8217;s Facebook wall:<\/a> <em>Hey Pepsi, I&#8217;m standing with orangutans, and I can&#8217;t stand by brands that use Conflict Palm Oil. Demand responsible palm oil from your suppliers and eliminate Conflict Palm Oil from your products. The power is #InYourPalm.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>3<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PepsiCo\">Tweet at Pepsi:<\/a> <em>Hey @PepsiCo, I can&#8217;t stand by brands that use Conflict #PalmOil. The power is #InYourPalm.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A girl tells Strawberry the orangutan that she eats peanut butter. Its ingredients are peanuts, sugar, salt, palm oil. Strawberry looks sad, signs to girl, &#8220;Your food is destroying my home.&#8221; Palm oil is used in cookies and crackers (including Girl Scout Cookies), peanut butter and many other foods. Irreplaceable rainforests and orangutan habitat are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/your-food-is-destroying-my-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your food is destroying my home.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,101,176,183,58],"tags":[488,278,487,485,486,190],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuse","category-all","category-environment-2","category-justice","category-nature","category-protection","tag-cookies","tag-destruction","tag-girl-scout","tag-habitat","tag-orangutan","tag-rain-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}