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."
I actually find myself wishing that there will someday be such demand for ethanol that there won't be much corn available for that damned syrup. It's in everything anymore.
High fructose corn syrup is nasty stuff. Give me good old sugar anyday.
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."
Fine, she can put her money where her mouth is - I have 15 cases ($42 per case) of Girl Scout cookies in my living room right now. Pay me for them and I will be more than happy to do what ever she wants me to do with them.....including.......never mind........
Shoving them up.....
never mind........
Oh, OK. I'll keep my thoughts to myself.
Oh really? Then why did my GS Troop sell over 100 boxes of cookies for the Taste of Home program which sends cookies to the Troops???????????????
Seriously, my wife, as leader, and daughter just finished their gold award and will be celebrating in April.
"I have 15 cases ($42 per case) of Girl Scout cookies in my living room right now."
So are you involved in the girl scouts, or do you just really, really, really like their cookies? ;)
The Troop leader of that GS troop should be reported. What you are saying is absolutely unacceptable behavior.
We did a "cookie booth" in front of the local supermarket this past Saturday, and those girls knew better than to do anything like you describe. Our girls did ask the question, but never stepped in front of a cart, nor did they get more than a foot away from the table.
I'm serious, my friend, if you can remember the Troop number, call the Council and report it (if you can't ask the store manager, he/she will have the information because someone from the council made the arrangements)
Oh, please. I just bought one box of those cookies to help out the Girl Scouts. I ate 1/2 box throughout the day, and I'm still skinny. What's next? Why can't these people get lives aleady.
Here is a related story:
http://weightlossmax.com/2006/11/14/la-weight-loss-vs-girl-scouts-of-america/
LA Weight Loss vs Girl Scouts of America
14th November 2006
Seems like the Girls Scouts in Raritan, New Jersey have offended clients of a LA Weight Loss center near their cookie booth.
Kara L. Richardson, Courier News:
Dorothy DiNorcia of Raritan Borough was renting a movie in Blockbuster when she said she heard a clerk there tell his manager, “I have LA Weight Loss on the phone. They are threatening to call the police if we don’t get them (the Girl Scouts) to move from in front of our store.”
Perhaps instead of threatening children LA Weight Loss could have used this as a learning opportunity in restraint and moderation.
Personally, my favorite Girl Scout cookies are the Tagalongs. Trefoils being a close second. Yum! Hard as it may be I think we ALL know that downing a box in one sitting is never conducive to losing weight …
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The war issue is bogus as far as I'm concerned, as my girls have been selling cookies for the "Taste of Home" program which sends cookies to the troops. You pay for the cookies and the GS sends them to the troops.
The PP thing can be dealt with on a local level, and it is not an issue in any of the troops I'm familiar with.
Thanks...this whole thing smelled.
I've got two and a half cases of them :)
Seriously, my wife, as leader, and daughter just finished their gold award and will be celebrating in April.
Congrats to them both.
I'm the "cookie mom" for my daughter's troop, so the extras are stored at my house :(
I'm out of Tagalongs, but I've got plenty of Trefoils :)
This entire thing is totally out of hand......but give these people and inch, and you know what happens.
This is my daughter's second year with GS and my first with being anything more than a transportation provider. I'm the Troop treasurer, and therefore the defaco "cookie mom" so I do know any claim the GS don't support the Troops is incorrect.
I'm not familiar with the situation claiming they didn't support them, but I wonder if the organization that bought the cookies were improperly using the GS name and that was what the problem was about. I can't answer that because I don't know, as this is the first I ever read of it.
I can probably use this "boycott" call by this group to my advantage to get rid of the rest of the cookies stacked up in my living room :)
I sit on the Board and am Treasurer of a well-capitalized non-profit organization.
We have monthly meetings, and the board is comprised mostly of business people, with the occasional kook thrown in.
The meetings are usually over lunch.
First, it was pizza. Then, it was sandwiches and soup or a fruit cup. Then it was salad and dressing. Today, the dressing disappeared because it is "chocked full of trans-fats".
I told them today I would not be coming to the noontime Board meetings anymore unless they feed us, and that something on the order of ribs and all the fixings would be in order.
If they want to promulgate a generation of skeletors, they can do it without me.
What kind of a reaction did you get with that pronouncement?
Smokers warned overeaters. Enjoy.
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