Girl Scouts take a stand: Just say no to Thin Mints

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Earthbound Misfit wrote:

So they sold magazines instead - where do they think the paper comes from to make those mags, anyway? Give me a break!

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R2G2plusA wrote:

Thank you ladies for giving me a valuable reason to resist buying Girl Scout cookies in the future.
I love to see people take a stand for what they believe in.

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Ron wrote:

They should be doing something more important, like helping to ban toxic tobacco smoke everywhere, since this mother of all chemical weapons kills 65,000 INNOCENT Americans every year. Girl Scout cookies are not QUITE as dangerous.

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TJ from South Dakota wrote:

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Exactly my thoughts. I would be willing to bet that they would save more natural resources/energy by selling the cookies than selling the magazines. Think about it. Magazines are paper and ink products. Paper comes from trees. Ink is a byproduct of petrolium. The cookies packaging is a petrochemical byproduct (plastic) but I would assume the amount of raw materials per magazine is greater than raw materials per box of carmel delights (best girl scout cookie ever, yum).
Would you rather conserve wood and oil or worry about the primate's habitat?

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look again wrote:

It would make more sense for these girls to spend their energy getting the cookie makers to convert to another oil...but that's not as "hip" and would take more work.
Also, Palm Oil is not healthy for humans, but apparently that's of no interest to them.
PC caca.

disgusted by organic wrote:

It is commendable to think of cause and effect and work against a bad effect. HOWEVER, if the girls or most of the other people who have posted comments here seem to have ignored is that most of that acreage going to palm oil is NOT going to Girls Scout cookies or any other foodstuffs. It is going to BIOFUEL. Politicians and other people with few facts are forcing the cutting of native jungles and forests with valuable wildlife. This cutting is to provide transportation fuels, not food. Can you think of a better way to use prime orangutan (or put any other favored species) land? Oh, by the way, some brave people have used knowledge that we have acquired over the centuries and pocket calculators or more powerful computers to do the math and have found out that the massive biofuel programs underway produce more carbon greenhouse gases than using equivalent fossil fuels. Biofuels seem to be product of misguided thinking without sufficient data to make a hypothesis and defend it with solid knowledge and calculations. Hyped news media and politicians use this junk "science" to promote their private agendas - not what is best for the world. Think of the possible factors of carbon emissions, water use, land use, and displacement of native species and inhabitants in making your own conclusions. Most importantly, do your OWN math.

seattleprincess wrote:

hey... this is a very important issue... i wish more people in the world could be like this

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JenniferInSC wrote:

Thanks for the 'heads up' girls!! I love those Girl Scout cookies too, but I love animals MORE. No more Girl Scout Cookies in my house. Thanks.

look again wrote:

It would make more sense for these girls to spend their energy getting the cookie makers to convert to another oil...but that's not as "hip" and would take more work.
Also, Palm Oil is not healthy for humans, but apparently that's of no interest to them.
PC caca.

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change agent wrote:

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you are thinking of palm kernal oil.. which is full of saturated fat.

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More reasons to not buy wrote:

Don't buy the cookies! Written by Jane Chastain
WorldNetDaily
Posted: February 28, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
© 2008
I used to dread this time of year. In the month of March, Girl Scouts are out in force in their smart little green and brown uniforms selling cookies. There was a time I would buy a box from every girl I encountered as a payback for my positive scouting experience.
However, buying that box of cookies now presents a moral dilemma, as the Girl Scouts have become a training ground for the left-wing feminist agenda.
I used to get a knot in my stomach as I turned down these Girl Scouts. Last year I came up with a better plan. I began giving each girl who approached me a letter with an offer to give her troop $100 if it will change its affiliation to the American Heritage Girls. I greet the leader or parent with the girl and hand her information from the AHG website, along with my column "Confessions of a former Girl Scout" and my contact information.
I can still remember the pride I felt as I stood at attention in my crisp Girl Scout uniform to recite the promise:
On my honor, I will try:
To do my duty to God and my country,
To help other people at all times,
To obey the Girl Scout Laws.
How times have changed! Now God has an asterisk telling the girl that "it is OK to replace the word 'God' with whatever word your spiritual beliefs dictate."
The word "duty" (to God) has been replaced with "serve" and the new all-inclusive Girl Scouts are free to serve anyone, including themselves, which seems fitting after reviewing some of their materials that stress "girl empowerment" and moral relativism.
Is it any wonder that the "Covenant of the Goddess" website now boasts that the Girl Scouts allow its members to earn and wear its Over the Moon and Hart and Crescent Award, offered to any young person who is a member of a nature-oriented religion (Wicca, Druid, Asatru, you name it)?
While the Boy Scouts have clung to their original God-centered charter, the Girl Scouts adopted a policy of nondiscrimination and now accepts atheists and lesbians as troop leaders and staff. In 2004, the Arcus Gay and Lesbian Fund gave a $21,500 grant to the Glowing Embers GS Council in Kalamazoo, Mich., to develop and produce a series of interactive games based on the new diversity (code word for homosexual) curriculum, "Living on My Honor"
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