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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby
What possible argument did she have for making such an idiotic statement?
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The quack's name was Meme Roth and she was with the National Action Against Obesity. Her big gripe with GSA is that if you are a "civic organization" you shouldn't be allowed to sell junk food. By nature, you should be serving the public and if you are a Girl Scout you are perpetuating the obesity problem in America. She has a problem with Girl Scouts' selling practices since they create a measure of importance by only selling 2 months out of the year. Also, she says the cookie labeling is deceptive and the girls are an "unpaid labor force."
No troop is forced to sell cookies and there are no quotas. Now mind you, GSA makes it very attractive to sell cookies and fall product, but no one holds a gun to our heads to do so. We make .75 cents a box for every box sold, and since I have a troop of 12 girls, we easily make $1500 a cookie season. That pays for camp and trips that these girls will remember for a lifetime. If anything, GSA shows the girls how efficiently an organization can be run. We have 3 beautiful camps in our council that are supported by cookie sales and they run a ton of outreach programs. Our girls spend the entire first quarter of their school year doing encampment and service projects. It blows my mind that someone could attack such an awesome organization.
But, you gotta love Neil...he actually called her a food police Nazi and asked her if she expected scouts to stand on the corner selling carrot sticks
