namvet
04-02-2014, 04:46 PM
snip;
At NPR’s food blog “The Salt” (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/01/295748000/do-girl-scout-cookies-still-make-the-world-a-better-place) on Tuesday, Eliza Barclay channeled the fat-shamers (with no quote from Michelle Obama) who want the Girl Scouts to stop selling addictive cookies. They don't make the world a better place.
Barclay pushed how “a few brave voices argue it's no longer all that delightful to see little girls peddling packaged cookies, or to buy them in the name of supporting the community. (And no, this is not an April Fools' joke.)” It’s a public health menace:
To some doctors and parents, the tradition increasingly feels out of step with the uncomfortable public health realities of our day.
"The problem is that selling high-fat sugar-laden cookies to an increasingly calorie-addicted populace is no longer congruent with [the Girl Scouts' aim to make the world a better place]." That's what John Mandrola, a heart doctor in Louisville, Ky., wrote on his blog (http://www.drjohnm.org/2014/03/dear-girl-scouts-its-time-to-cut-out-the-cookies/) in March. (He also blogs for Medscape/Cardiology.)
story (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/04/02/npr-food-blog-takes-girl-scout-cookie-menace-youre-co-opting-innocent-ch)
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At NPR’s food blog “The Salt” (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/01/295748000/do-girl-scout-cookies-still-make-the-world-a-better-place) on Tuesday, Eliza Barclay channeled the fat-shamers (with no quote from Michelle Obama) who want the Girl Scouts to stop selling addictive cookies. They don't make the world a better place.
Barclay pushed how “a few brave voices argue it's no longer all that delightful to see little girls peddling packaged cookies, or to buy them in the name of supporting the community. (And no, this is not an April Fools' joke.)” It’s a public health menace:
To some doctors and parents, the tradition increasingly feels out of step with the uncomfortable public health realities of our day.
"The problem is that selling high-fat sugar-laden cookies to an increasingly calorie-addicted populace is no longer congruent with [the Girl Scouts' aim to make the world a better place]." That's what John Mandrola, a heart doctor in Louisville, Ky., wrote on his blog (http://www.drjohnm.org/2014/03/dear-girl-scouts-its-time-to-cut-out-the-cookies/) in March. (He also blogs for Medscape/Cardiology.)
story (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/04/02/npr-food-blog-takes-girl-scout-cookie-menace-youre-co-opting-innocent-ch)
http://i60.tinypic.com/etckeb.jpg