"Over priced..."
Not only are they exorbitantly priced, the numbers don't add up. The Girls Scouts can not be making $700 million a year on those sales. The shame of this scam is that a mega-bakery is scamming Girl Scouts into selling that stuff for pennies on the dollar.
Forget the obesity angle and look at the balance sheet of the producer of those cookies.
Actually the national Girl Scouts organization licenses 2 cookie manufacturers -- one is a Kellog subsidiary, and the other is a subsidiary of some other larger food maufacturer. Those two then compete for the business of the various regional councils, which are free to choose which to order from. As a result neither manufacturer is in a position to extract an inordinately high price for the cookies it sells to troops. Sometimes older Girl Scouts are brought along to participate in negotiations with the manufacturers, to learn some business basics.