Another Girl Scout cookie season is upon us and the Girl Scout corporate decision makers are still OK with loading up Girl Scout cookies with hydrogenated oils. I’ve ranted about this practice in the past years and am disgusted that it is still business as before.
They are playing games. Hydrogenated oils equals trans fats. The box can say no trans fats even if the cookies contain trans fats. It works like this. Set the serving size to one cookie. If that cookie has less than 500 mg (half a gram) of trans fats, then the box can say in big, bold letters that it has no trans fats. Eat a box of cookies and you have eaten lots of trans fats.
Here is the lame spin provided by Girl Scouts.
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Amen. Girl Scouts really need to get their act together. I checked the ingredients of every type of Girl Scout cookie last weekend at the sales table in front of my local grocery store. Every single stinkin’ box contained hydrogenated oils.
Blech. I donated $4.00 and told them to keep the cookies because they were not welcome in my home. The patient parent-in-charge said they would send the box I did not want to troops overseas.
It’s not the young girls or their parents that are at fault. The bureaucrats running the organization are totally lame! I don’t want to punish the scouts, but how else do you get through to bureaucrats other than reducing demand, which I did not really accomplish.