Fall is just around the corner and neighborhoods are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their local Girl Scouts to feed their cookie cravings. The CSPI, Center for Science in the Public Interest, would like consumers to take a moment and consider what they are buying before diving into that second stack of Thin Mints. By taking a nutritional stand against Girl Scout troop cookie sales around the country, the CSPI has brought a great deal of criticism upon their supposed good intentions.
A website devoted to consumer freedom created the above mockery of the CSPI's stand on Girl Scout cookie sales. The comic is ridiculing the CSPI's view that Girl Scout cookies are unhealthy. He or she has turned a Girl Scout cookie drive into a nutrition and health information session claiming that in this instance the CSPI has gone too far. The comic portrays, through definition, ways to make the cookie sales healthier and more acceptable to the CSPI's nutritional standards. An obvious use of sarcasm is the comic's way of telling the CSPI that they have entered uncharted territory that will most likely not succumb to their nutritional facts and figures. The over the top proposed changes tell the reader that the comic disagrees with the stand that the CSPI has taken regarding a favored National "treat".
Sarcasm is a strong style in which to take on this topic; as it is able to fairly easily discredit the CSPI while promoting the Girl Scouts. Claiming the CSPI is extreme, "Eat them, but know they'll kill you." It makes it seem as though they are an all or nothing organization and that there is no "Anything in Moderation". Through this sarcasm the comic connects with an even larger audience than just the Girl Scout Organization, because who ever thought a cookie or two could kill you.
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