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Girl Guide Cookies and the GMO Controversy

Have you heard the  news?: A Victoria Girl Guide and her Mother have started a  campaign  to boycott Girl Guide Cookies until they remove the GMO ingredients from the cookies. Here is what  National  had to say about it.   Dare says that they conform to Canadian Standards.   Is this fight really not then with the Canadian Standards, should the petition not be to the Government of Canada to limit the use of GMO ingredients in our products? I just heard about this issue last weekend, someone had seen 1 article about it and we had a discussion about how we felt about it.    Today I got an email in my mailbox from a worried Guide leader who had taken her girls out cookie selling and one girl came back in tears having been yelled at for selling poison.   When I logged into my girl guide account I found a whole string of emails about this same issue. here is what I have to say about it: As a long time Girl Guide Member I wanted to put in my two cents on this story, When