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Girl Scout Cookies Boycott Called by National Action Against Obesity
National Action Against Obesity ^ | February 19, 2007

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."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foodpolice; nannystate; samoasrbest; thinmints
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Great. One lefty organization is against another one.We need to have more like this. When will ACLU sues MoveOn?


61 posted on 02/21/2007 4:21:02 PM PST by paudio (WoT is more important than War on Gay Marriage!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Well by George, if those little brown clad muffins come to my house, I will turn their fatty little cookies RIGHT OFFn my doorstep.

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.)

62 posted on 02/21/2007 4:31:25 PM PST by Candor7 (Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: indylindy
Is this article the truth? If not, it is offensive. To be honest, just because an article is from the MSMs does not make it truth. So what is the point? So much of the media anymore is made up spin.

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

63 posted on 02/21/2007 4:31:33 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: paulat

Yes I do and I responded to YOUR post.


64 posted on 02/21/2007 4:32:21 PM PST by packrat35 (Beware the Big Government Republicans!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I just got done scooping. Thanks for clearing this up!


65 posted on 02/21/2007 4:34:08 PM PST by dforest (Liberals love crisis, create crisis and then dwell on them.)
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To: RepoGirl
I've trained as a triathelete for the past three years...

I've found it much easier to be good with a shotgun.

66 posted on 02/21/2007 4:34:57 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: LadyNavyVet

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.


67 posted on 02/21/2007 4:38:02 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: packrat35
Yes I do and I responded to YOUR post.

Uhh...just checked all the responses on this thread....

Have NO idea what you're talking about....

68 posted on 02/21/2007 4:39:03 PM PST by paulat
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To: All; packrat35
I owe an apology to PackRat

I did see his reply...and I lost track...sorry.

69 posted on 02/21/2007 4:42:01 PM PST by paulat
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To: chesty_puller
"Cookies do make the world a better place! Idiots"

Cookies.....Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Yummy!

70 posted on 02/21/2007 5:07:39 PM PST by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: RichRepublican

We'll have to arm wrestle for them!


71 posted on 02/21/2007 5:17:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Candor7

Burqua Bonnies! I like that.


72 posted on 02/21/2007 5:26:22 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: paulat

"Just me...no one has to listen to me!!!"

Sounds good. Want a cookie?


73 posted on 02/21/2007 5:41:50 PM PST by 383rr ((those who choose security over liberty deserve neither) GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: 383rr
Sounds good. Want a cookie?

LOL!...pls read the whole thread....

74 posted on 02/21/2007 5:48:38 PM PST by paulat
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Girl Scout Cookies are high-calorie, high-sugar, high in saturated fat and nearly devoid of nutrition

Yep, and they're yummy. So.....


75 posted on 02/21/2007 5:50:26 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
I swear this is the truth.

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....

76 posted on 02/21/2007 5:50:47 PM PST by paulat
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To: CAP811
Have cookie, a glass of milk and relax.

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.

77 posted on 02/21/2007 5:53:05 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Larry Lucido
I'll be buying three extra boxes of each variety this year.
Girl scout cookies are the best and they hold up in the freezer well.I'll have cookies until next years Girl scout cookie sale.:)
78 posted on 02/21/2007 5:55:44 PM PST by Mrs.Nooseman (Proudly supporting our Troops,Allies and our President GW!!!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Well I actually agree with the premise of this article. I think it is utterly irresponsible for the Girl Scouts to be pushing this crap on America to raise money.

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.

79 posted on 02/21/2007 5:55:53 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I'm 30 days from outliving Steve Irwin)
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To: LadyNavyVet
Girl Scout rules specifically prohibit that sort of behavior. The girls are not allowed to get in your face and not allowed to ask for donations.

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

80 posted on 02/21/2007 6:01:44 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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