none of them. they are made with palm-oil...bad for you and really bad for forests. a couple of girl-scouts have spent the last 5 years trying to get leadership to change the recipe and omitt the palm-oil. the girl scout leadership will only say they will get some of the palm oil from a sustainable source. no cookies for me till they change the recipe and make cookies WITHOUT palm oil.

Hi irret, thanks for your comments. Girl Scouts became members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil this year. Details: http://bit.ly/wKpI53

while you are technically correct, the GS said SOME not all of their cookies will be made with the certification. to me they should have just eliminated it from their recipe.
the cookies had been made w/o palm oil in the past and they can be once again. and ..why did it take some 5 years for the leadership to act on this???

I don't normally buy Girl Scout cookies because I don't really care for cookies. (I know, weird.) Anyway, I WILL be buying some this year to show support for GSA. There was controversy when a troop denied a young transgender girl membership, until the main office clarified that they accept all children who identify as girls. Kudos to the GSA for recognizing and honoring the diversity of youth, and for sending message of acceptance and inclusion.

Not surprisingly, this policy hasn't been universally popular, and the parents of at least one troop disaffiliated with GSA. Others have called for a boycott of the cookies. I hope my purchase will help mitigate any loss they incur.

i am sure that your purchase will help the scouts and will not help the rainforests and all it's animal life.

Seems I'm in the minority with my love of Do-Si-Dos, and no one likes the newest two flavors. I'm on a diet, but I'll buy a box or two for support and give them to a food bank.

Gail is the Do-Si-Do peanut butter? Trying to recall which one that is.

Yes, Do Si Do is the peanut butter one. Taglongs are the peanut buttery/caramel with chocolate covering. Those are also one of my favorites. I always disliked Trefoils, even when I was little. Shortbread cookies are boring to me. LOL

Looks like either lots of people haven't tried the two newest cookies (other than the new lemony one) or also don't like them; the traditional ones (Thin Mints and Samoas) are tied in our poll.

I'm a traditionalist and absolutely love Samoas. I've bought Girl Scout cookies before, but this year, it will mean more. I am so very excited and in support of the open and tolerant policies in Girl Scouts towards LGBT scouts and the community in general. They're a great example for other youth groups!

Life is only truly happy when there is a box of Thin Mints in the freezer.

for all of you ignoring the issue and talking about lemon or samoas.
Palm Oil or Rainforests – You Decide by Cathryn Wellner

Kermit was right. It’s not easy being green. The palm-oil industry aims to keep it that way by hiding rainforest-destroying ingredients in nearly half the packaged goods we buy.
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has just released an infographic that shows why avoiding unsustainable palm oil is hard – and why it is essential. We would not cut our own lungs out, but every day we humans slash the planet’s in order to provide palm oil for cookies, crackers, soaps, lipstick, and a whole lot more.

RAN’s Palm Oil Factsheet (click on the graphic below) singles out three countries as the source of 85 percent of the palm oil that ends up on our shelves: Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. It also points to Cargill, which “trades a quarter (25%) of the world’s palm oil and is the largest importer of palm oil into the United States.” The impact of all this unsustainable palm-oil production is loss of biodiversity, destruction of the livelihoods of forest communities, and an increase in CO2.
Palm oil is such a common ingredient it is difficult to avoid. Even the Girl Scouts are selling rainforest-destroying cookies, though a couple of teens are trying to persuade them to get out of the business.

We need to ask more questions and stop contributing to environmental destruction with the products we buy.

irret, It's my understanding this will be the first year GS cookie boxes will include the GreenPalm logo, a sign of their commitment to address concerns you bring up here. More at: www.greenpalm.org and here: http://www.girlscouts.org/news/news_releases/2011/sustainable.asp

from your own link: Girl Scouts Pledge to Promote the Need for Sustainable Palm Oil Practices

Beginning with the 2012-13 cookie selling season, each box of Girl Scout cookies will include a GreenPalm logo as a symbol of Girl Scouts' commitment to address concerns about palm oil production. The Girl Scouts also will purchase GreenPalm certificates, which offer a premium price to palm oil producers who are operating within the environmental and social guidelines set by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil.
Girl Scouts of the USA said it was pledging to work with its bakers and other industry leaders to switch to sustainable palm oil by 2015, if supplies are available. The organization has also directed its bakers to use as little palm oil as possible in Thin Mints, Trefoils and Samoas.

Two Girl Scouts from Michigan... embarked on a five-year effort to make Girl Scout cookies more environmentally friendly. "It's definitely a step in the right direction, however, the steps don't go far enough. It doesn't ensure that the cookies will be completely deforestation-free and environmentally friendly," says Rhiannon, 15 years old.

When the girls discovered that palm oil is present in the cookies they sell, they rallied troops across the country, called for meetings with Girl Scouts leaders and criticized their nonprofit organization on Facebook and Twitter.

as you can see from the above story. they will not even begin to use sustaiable palm oil (if there is such a thing) until 2015. but they start using a logo duping people into thinking they are doing it now. then they have lots of outs by using the phrase "if available" . does it really take three years to swap out one item i a recipe? so i stand by my original comment i am NOT buying their cookies. just like i don't buy anything else made with palm oil.

irret, thanks for bringing this issue to everyone's attention here. Just curious, is there a brand of cookie that you like, do you make your own or ??

I may lose votes for this but I just can't stay quiet for a minute longer....Gail, Mary Ann, Irret, Rachel, Karen...

The world has gone to pieces if you don't realize that there is only ONE way to eat Girl Scout Cookies, and that's to be eating Thin Mint's.

You heard it here.

:-)

Hi Scott, I tend to agree with you on the Thin Mints; it looks like the Samoas are edging them out though for the #1 spot in our poll, by 10 votes.