Yep, and they're yummy. So.....
Posted on 02/21/2007 3:25:57 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
New York, NY (PRWeb) February 19, 2007 -- www.actionagainstobesity.com -- As America's child and adult obesity figures rise, National Action Against Obesity (NAAO), calls for a boycott of the reported $700 million in Girl Scout Cookies sold annually.
Profiting off cookies -- it's the wrong message, the wrong product and the wrong era. Girl Scouts have an economic, medical and moral imperative to dump junk food as their $700 million fundraising source. NAAO would like the Girl Scouts to commit to a 5-year plan transitioning away from junk food as the organization's primary fundraiser "Girl Scout Cookies are high-calorie, high-sugar, high in saturated fat and nearly devoid of nutrition. Using young girls as a front to push millions of cookies onto an already bloated population further exacerbates an alarming crisis, no matter how cute the uniforms are," said NAAO President MeMe Roth. "The Girl Scouts sell up to 200 million boxes yearly -- that's about one box for every overweight American."
Girl Scouts of the USA have a flawed business model in direct conflict with their posted mission statement -- 'Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.' "Profiting off cookies -- it's the wrong message, the wrong product and the wrong era. Girl Scouts have an economic, medical and moral imperative to dump junk food as their $700 million fundraising source. NAAO would like the Girl Scouts to commit to a 5-year plan transitioning away from junk food as the organization's primary fundraiser," continued Roth.
NAAO suggests Girl Scouts look to Boy Scouts as a model -- they're known for community service, unlike Girl Scouts singularly identified with baked goods. "Do your good deed -- while Girl Scout Cookies are on sale through March, smile at the children, offer a donation, but leave those cookies behind."
Great. One lefty organization is against another one.We need to have more like this. When will ACLU sues MoveOn?
How dare they!
I will buy little Pitabread Sandwiches from the the Burqua Bonnies instead, yes I will!
( I always salt away 4 or 5 boxes of GS cookies! Annual right of passage.)
I swear this is the truth. You can't make this stuff up. It's a pretty sad state of affairs when you can't use satire or reductio ad absurdum arguments to make fun of the paternalistic health Nazi's. Fact is stranger than fiction.
We can ask, ban smoking in bars? What are they going to do next, ban girl scout cookies? Answer: Uh, yeah, ban girl scout cookies. The fake article was in the Onion but they wouldn't let me post it on FR.
I actually found this piece of news while reading the Center for Consumer Freedom
Yes I do and I responded to YOUR post.
I just got done scooping. Thanks for clearing this up!
I've found it much easier to be good with a shotgun.
When my grand daughter was selling them, she got my wife on the phone and sold her 10 boxes. She then sweetly asked to talk to me, whereupon she tried to get me to buy some too.
I told her that grandma would share with me.
Uhh...just checked all the responses on this thread....
Have NO idea what you're talking about....
I did see his reply...and I lost track...sorry.
Cookies.....Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Yummy!
We'll have to arm wrestle for them!
Burqua Bonnies! I like that.
"Just me...no one has to listen to me!!!"
Sounds good. Want a cookie?
LOL!...pls read the whole thread....
Yep, and they're yummy. So.....
Now you see what I'm talking about. People don't believe your posts when you say you are going to make fake posts.
I tried to warn you....
It won't be a Girl Scout cookie, I can guarantee you that.
For one thing, the cookies are overrated. For another, I have no use for rude children, or for their enabling parents that think everything their little darlings do is worthy of outright worship by the rest of us.
I think the Girl Scouts of America would do better to sell something more wholesome like raisins, nuts or olive oil. All those products have long shelf life which is conducive for long-term fundraising. As well, they are packed with nutrition and free of hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrups.
The girls got in my way and acted like panhandlers, but they did not ask for donations. The adults did that after I said, twice, that I didn't want any of their damned cookies.
And the adults with them should know better.
Is there a hotline number I can call to bust them? I would so drop a dime on those ladies. LOL
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