{"id":10931,"date":"2025-03-04T09:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=10931"},"modified":"2025-03-04T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:53:05","slug":"girl-scouts-push-back-on-claim-that-cookies-have-unsafe-levels-of-weed-killer-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/girl-scouts-push-back-on-claim-that-cookies-have-unsafe-levels-of-weed-killer-chemical\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Scouts Push Back On Claim That Cookies Have Unsafe Levels Of Weed-Killer Chemical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the “how they’re poisoning us files”. Pay close attention to the fact that the levels are more than what is safe in water per the EPA. And these regulatory bodies are captured, so they allow poisons at too high a level already, and in many cases their regulations don’t even cover other toxins and poisons picked up in the environment. And they’ve been allowing fluoride in water for decades when there is a lot of evidence that it’s toxic and harms the mental development of children (the point). And it’s no secret that glyphosate causes cancer, but when they settle lawsuits agreeing to pay, it has an NDA, and they’re working for immunity like the pharma companies have implemented through their captured politicians and regulators. Consequently, we stopped eating them over a decade ago from just looking at ingredients. And just look at how brainwashed the Girl Scouts are as they ask you to buy their poisoned products? Just looking through their financials, they collect $39 million in dues, pay $49 million in salaries, over $100 million in investments… What a hustle, and they’re probably propagandizing them as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the firm, TorHoerman Law, around 80% of the more than 100,000 Roundup lawsuits have been settled. The mega multinational company Bayer owns the Roundup brand, and according to attorneys targeting Bayer for future lawsuits, the company is seeking state legislation to obtain legal immunity from cancer claims related to Roundup, arguing that it has complied with EPA regulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cGlyphosate is widely used in agriculture in accordance with established EPA standards and is found nearly everywhere in the food chain,\u201d states a recent online information sheet from Girl Scouts of America. \u201cTrace amounts of glyphosate can be found in fresh fruits, vegetables, cereals, baked goods, and other food and beverage commodities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2025\/03\/01\/tainted-toxic-and-tasty-girls-scouts-deny-claim-cookies-laced-with-poison\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Going up against Joe Rogan is no easy task, but that’s what the Girl Scouts are doing after he discussed a study that called its cookies “toxic.” The Girl Scouts of Wyoming and Montana told Cowboy State Daily the cookies are “very safe to eat.”<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

David Madison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many look forward to Girl Scout Cookie season, planning to stock up on boxes of their favorite treats to keep in the freezer all year-round. Now they\u2019re also bombarded with online claims the cookies aren\u2019t just tasty, they\u2019re also toxic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGirl Scout Cookies are safe to consume,\u201d is the unequivocal response from Girl Scouts of Wyoming and Montana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regional branch of the national organization involves 7,000 Girl Scouts and more than 2,800 volunteers across the two states. Anyone involved with Girl Scouts of America is earning a crisis management badge amid a wave of concerns raised by an online awareness campaign about Girl Scout cookies that claim the wildly popular treats are tainted and toxic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent study from Moms Across America tested 13 types of Girl Scout cookies collected from three states \u2014 California, Iowa, and Louisiana. The study found all the cookies contained trace amounts of glyphosate, the cancer-causing chemical in Roundup weed killer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girl Scouts of America and its regional branches are now executing a public relations offensive ahead of the start of cookie sales this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur stance isn\u2019t any different than the national organization,\u201d wrote Briana Rickman, director of public relations and development for Wyoming and Montana, in an email Friday to Cowboy State Daily. \u201cI can assure you and Wyoming consumers that Girl Scout Cookies are very safe to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only are they delicious, they support Girl Scouts across the two states for their activities and trips throughout the year, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With around 200 million boxes sold every season, it’s a $800 million annual business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose are nationwide numbers and GSUSA does not make any revenue from the cookie program. All proceeds stay local within each of the 111 councils across the nation,\u201d wrote Rickman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cookie sales teach Girl Scouts about everything from goal setting to business ethics, continued Rickman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Danger In The Dough\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The start of Girl Scout cookie season in January usually comes with a wave of feel-good news coverage. But this year, the group MAA crashed the Girl Scouts\u2019 annual cookie launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late December, MAA released its \u201cDanger in the Dough\u201d report, and it\u2019s gaining an audience online just as Girl Scouts are preparing to set up shop in front of grocery stores and other strategic foot traffic locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Montana and Wyoming, Girl Scouts will sell cookies in person from March 21 through April 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGirl Scout Cookies are made with ingredients that adhere to food safety standards set by the Food and Drug Administration and other relevant authorities,\u201d states Girl Scouts of America in its detailed online campaign to debunk the \u201cDanger in the Dough\u201d report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Girl Scouts offer FDA and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assurances that glyphosate is safe to consume up to a certain level, turning this clash over cookies into a conversation about whether it\u2019s time to stop using products containing glyphosate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Joe Rogan Effect<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The annual operating expenses for Girl Scouts of America are about $135 million, according GSUSA\u2019s own reporting for 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual operating budget for Moms Across America is $250,000. MAA and its partner nonprofit group GMOScience are tiny by comparison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their recent \u201cDanger in the Dough\u201d report follows previous testing and studies done on tap water, breast milk and school lunches. Those efforts over the last 12 years generated some strong reactions online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now MAA is getting traction with its call for glyphosate regulation because the group\u2019s research \u2014 which is not peer-reviewed or published in an academic journal \u2014 is getting high-profile mentions on social media, including through the popular \u201cJoe Rogan Experience\u201d podcast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHoly shit! They\u2019re f***ing toxic as f***! Thin Mints being the worst offenders,\u201d said Rogan during his Feb. 24 episode. \u201cFive flavors of Girl Scout Cookies contained levels of glyphosate and heavy metals above EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) water safety limits.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girl Scouts of America\u2019s response was rapid and detailed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to putting out a slate of fact checking counter points, other podcasters joined the debunking effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A 66-pound child would need to consume approximately 9,000 cookies daily to approach the EPA’s chronic reference dose,” Dr. Jessica B. Steier, host of “The Unbiased Science<\/a>” podcast told the debunking site Snopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes Magazine reported Feb. 26, \u201cA small number of tested samples doesn\u2019t always indicate widespread contamination, and some studies make false comparisons \u2014 like applying standards meant for water safety rather than FDA-approved food safety limits \u2014 which can make results sound more alarming than they actually are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MAA report isn’t the first time Girl Scout Cookie sales have been targeted in some way. On a more local level, a Girls Scout from Pinedale, Wyoming, made national news last year when the town fined her more than $400 for selling cookies from her grandmother’s driveway<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s The Big Deal With Glyphosate? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From her small organic farm outside Asheville, North Carolina, Zen Honeycutt oversees media outreach for Moms Across America. She is the founding executive director of MAA, and she\u2019s a former Girl Scout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe would assert that the original intention was for the girls to learn how to bake cookies and sell them, to be entrepreneurial, to learn a new task,\u201d Honeycutt told Cowboy State Daily in a phone interview. \u201cIt was not just to sell some highly processed box of cookies made by some corporation that’s making hundreds of millions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two large industrial bakeries, ABC Bakers in Virginia and Little Brownie Bakers in Kentucky, supply the world with Girl Scout Cookies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honeycutt dreams of a day when Girl Scouts sell homemade organic cookies during the annual cookie season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLearn how to bake cookies with their moms and grandmas and aunties or whoever else in their family who wants to bake cookies with organic ingredients,\u201d added Honeycutt. \u201cAnd sell those cookies instead. Educate the public about the benefits of organic as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Rogan, said Honeycutt, isn\u2019t the first high-profile personality to pay attention to her group\u2019s work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBobby Kennedy mentioned that part of the reason why they sued Monsanto was because we found glyphosate in breast milk,\u201d said Honeycutt, linking her group\u2019s work to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Trump administration\u2019s new Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the FDA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe’s been our adviser for seven years, so he’s been a supporter,\u201d said Honeycutt, who insisted RFK Jr. did not assist with the current \u201cDanger in the Dough\u201d campaign against glyphosate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was like trying to get into the HHS and the confirmation was happening, so we haven’t spoken about this at all,\u201d said Honeycutt. \u201cBut he is a huge supporter of getting toxins out of our food supply.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glyphosate taints the American food system, said Honeycutt, because it is used as a herbicide on a wide variety of food crops. She also said that Girl Scout cookies are not unique \u2014 any non-organic store-bought cookie probably comes with a dose of glyphosate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Litigation over exposure to glyphosate through the popular weed killer Roundup continues to mount. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the firm, TorHoerman Law, around 80% of the more than 100,000 Roundup lawsuits have been settled. The mega multinational company Bayer owns the Roundup brand, and according to attorneys targeting Bayer for future lawsuits, the company is seeking state legislation to obtain legal immunity from cancer claims related to Roundup, arguing that it has complied with EPA regulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a point also raised by Girl Scouts of America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGlyphosate is widely used in agriculture in accordance with established EPA standards and is found nearly everywhere in the food chain,\u201d states a recent online information sheet from Girl Scouts of America. \u201cTrace amounts of glyphosate can be found in fresh fruits, vegetables, cereals, baked goods, and other food and beverage commodities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, an army of Girl Scouts across Wyoming and Montana are preparing to spend much of their free time manning cookie booths at local stores across their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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