https://www.newsweek.com/girl-scout-cookies-contaminated-heavy-metals-lawsuit-2043582
The study was not peer-reviewed, had a small sample size, and wasn't published in a scientific journal. A peer-reviewed article is written by an expert or scholar in the field and reviewed by other experts to assess its accuracy.
GMOScience's study in December 2024: "The sale of cookies containing potentially toxic ingredients raises profound ethical and public health concerns. It is imperative for the Girl Scouts organization to confront this issue by addressing critical questions regarding their capacity and willingness to reformulate these products to ensure consumer safety."
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Don't our scientists and media have any brains or ethical standards left????
The Girl Scouts didn't grow the wheat or harvest the cocoa in Africa or make any of the ingredients in their cookies. They mostly used the same sources that the rest of us use when we buy products that contain the same ingredients.
If you want to stop this, then every grocery store, bakery and major source of products like this needs to be shut down. In fact, we need to stop growing and buying cocoa(needed to make chocolate) period. No more chocolate.
Many to most of the cocoa from Africa has high amounts of these heavy metals. 1 is naturally occurring in the soil. Their roots, when absorbing nutrients for plant growth also uptake these heavy metals (cadmium) or have them in the shells of the cocoa beans. It's IN THE COCOA BEANS/SHELLS, along with the other stuff that makes it so good and yummy for chocolate.
There is a near 100% chance that Girl Scouts is being singled out and unfairly targeted.
A 5 million dollar lawsuit against Girl Scouts without any victims or harm. Just a junk science study that they could have done on hundreds of other companies in the US selling similar products that showed similar results.
Is this stuff really in our food?
You bet it is and not just Girl Scout cookies.
Does this make our food harmful to eat?
The verdict is still out on that but Girl Scout cookies are not doing anything wrong. They are complying by all laws and regulations and their products are no worse than most competitors with the same ingredients in their cookies. They are using legit sources with good reputations.
Where do people think this food comes from anyway?
A Girl Scout Cookie Farm that grows them in the ground???
Girl Scouts uses the same sources for their cookie ingredients as just about everybody else. These people behind this study/story are just trying smear the reputation of Girl Scouts........by stealing peoples intelligence and replacing it with biased, SENSATIONALISM using completely misleading rubbish and junk science to sell newspapers or assert political bias against Girl Scouts.
https://trufoods.substack.com/p/why-are-heavy-metals-in-your-cacao
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Where in this well written article that explains agronomy and food science is there a Girl Scouts fingerprint that makes them liable to the tune of 5 million dollars because their cookies have the EXACT SAME THING as most of the other competitors cookies have in them?
Lawsuits need to be filed against most cookie selling companies that get their ingredients from the same places that the bakeries that bake for Girl Scouts do.
Here are a few pointers that will help you avoid glyphosate in food:
Growing your own vegetables is a great way to ensure your food is grown glyphosate-free.
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metmike: Vegetables aren't even a main source of glyphosate. What % of people have big gardens in their backyard? If you live in Chicago, that would be impossible even with a garden during the 6-7 coldest months of the year.
I had a huge garden for 2 decades here in Evansville IN and learned that these insecticides are used for a reason. If you don't use something, especially during the 2nd half of the growing season after the insect population has massively multiplied, the insects will eat more of your food than you do! i admit it, I used tons of different products, depending on the bug, the plant and how close it was to harvest.
The reason that this product is widely used is because its so effective, is relatively cheap and is easy to apply. You want cheap food? This helps.
You want the healthiest food? Maybe too much of this stuff is detrimental. It's honestly tough to know because the studies are so biased and contradict each other. Welcome to the world of bought and paid for scientific studies.
However, as an environmentalist I can see the potential negatives.
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https://organiclifestylemagazine.com/foods-most-likely-to-contain-glyphosate
As I suspected, the original junk science study was paid for by 2 biased/activist groups (Mom's across America) in cahoots with GMO science targeting Girl Scouts for political agenda.
They ONLY tested Girl Scout cookies. Imagine that!
Michelle Perro, MD
Published: December 27, 2024
https://gmoscience.org/2024/12/27/danger-in-the-dough/
This is not the first time Girl Scout Cookies have been put under the microscope. Leah Segedie, of Mamavation, published an article critiquing Girl Scout Cookies back in 2015, and she discovered many concerning issues.9 She listed primary ingredients of concern as high fructose corn syrup, GMO sugar from sugar beets, palm, cottonseed oil, soybean oils, caramel color, the thickening agent carrageenan, and artificial flavors. Most of these ingredients are core ingredients of the processed food industry, and some are known to be carcinogenic.
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If I didn't know what they are actually trying to do, I would think this was supposed to be a PARODY!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parody
What do they think is supposed to be in Girl Scout cookies? Organic Lettuce, Broccoli, Spinach and bananas?
They are cookies, man! These are the same ingredients that most cookies similar to this that all the other cookie manufactures use.
People don't eat cookies for their health. If you are looking for healthy foods or even healthy deserts, typical cookies are not going to make your top 100 list.
For years, Quaker oats have been marketing Cheerios or anything that happens to have Oats in it as if its health food and good for your heart. No matter the other ingredients. As if having a bowl of Cheerios is actually going to make 1 iota's worth of difference in a person's heart health. Pure marketing charlatanism.
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7nZT/cheerios-good-for-your-heart
At the same time, this supposed breakfast health food contains MANY more ingredients than just oats.
https://www.healthyandnaturalworld.com/glyphosate-in-food-complete-list/
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Instead of targeting Girl Scouts, that don't sell their cookies like they are health food, it would make more sense to target Quaker for misleading advertising!