25 July 2008
Center For Science in the Public Interest Takes Aim at Girl Scouts
Posted by admin under: Community Partners .
The CSPI is taking the Girl Scouts to task for partnering with Dairy Queen and allowing them to sell a Thin Mints Blizzard. The CSPI is the same group of bullies that threatened everyone until your fast food restaurant stopped frying your fries in anything but the blandest oil. Now they’re claiming that ice cream is fattening. Holy cow! I never knew!
Everyone knows that Girl Scout cookies aren’t health food. But even the trained nutritionists at the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest were shocked to see just how bad a new Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard from Dairy Queen is. The large, which weighs more than a pound, has more than 1,000 calories, 31 teaspoons of sugars, and provides more than a day’s saturated fat. It’s like drinking two Big Macs, according to CSPI.
Not everyone buys into their claptrap. Former House of Representatives member Bob Barr lambasted them a couple years ago in the Washington Times.
First, CSPI does not conduct actual scientific research. Instead, it is a public policy advocacy group. The organization wants the public to assume it does research, when what it really does is troll through thousands of scientific journals to pinpoint research that supports its pre-existing political agenda.
There is even an entire website dedicated to trying to expose their scare tactics.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and its founder, Michael F. Jacobson, are not as nice, sweet, and unbiased as CSPI’s name might imply. The group routinely uses scare tactics justified by “junk science” and media theatrics as part of their ceaseless campaign for government regulation of your personal food choices.
Jacobson once said: “CSPI is proud of finding something wrong with practically everything.” As you can see from this site, they have.
I guess the CSPI is tired of beating up clowns like Ronald McDonald and decided to pick on little girls instead. Pitiful. I hadn’t bothered yet to go to Dairy Queen to get a Thin Mint Blizzard that is only available for another week. Now I feel an extreme obligation to do so. I hope you do, too.
Update: Comment requested at http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/1061760/31627966 so I’m linking back to them.
Yet another discussion of this same topic: http://fatfightertv.com/blog/2008/07/thin-mint-blizzards/trackback/
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11 June 2009 at 7:34 pm.
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