December 01, 2016
Kellogg's bites off more than it can chew or digest
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/30/dumpkelloggs-kelloggs-declares-hate-45-million-americans-blacklisting-breitbart/
Jack Kemp
Not only is Kellogg's losing business for its p.c. attack on Breitbart, but Breitbart is organizing a boycott and Amnesty International is claiming - and Breitbart is reporting - that one of Kellogg's ingredients is produced with child labor overseas.
Kellogg's stock has been going steadily down from a mid-July high of $87. Today, as word of their boycott of Breitbart got out, the stock lost $1.62 a share to close at $72. Nothing like alienating more than half the country's voters to not help sales.
Kellogg's says that Breitbart doesn't share their
values. Has Breitbart.com any different today than it was a year or more
ago? Why didn't Kellogg's start advertising with them in the past? I
remember a Kellogg's official years ago testifying before the U.S.
Congress and saying that their ceraals WITH MILK were a nutritious
breakfast. Yes, the milk alone was quite nutritious without those sugat
coated styrofoam peanuts that Kellogg's sells.
Their product "Froot Loops" describes their
management well. When did Tony the Tiger and the Snap, Crackle, Pop
bakers become community activists? Kellogg's owns Keebler and one can
now say that the Keebler Elves are out of their tree. Maybe Kellogg's
can now advertise in the NY Times...
At the first page of the article linked to below,
you can sign a Breitbart originated petition to boycott Kellogg's.
Almost 43,000 have signed (myself included) as of Wednesday, November
30th.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/30/dumpkelloggs-kelloggs-declares-hate-45-million-americans-blacklisting-breitbart/
#DumpKelloggs: Breakfast Brand Blacklists Breitbart, Declares Hate for 45,000,000 Readers
QUOTE
Kellogg Co. announced on Tuesday its decision to pull ads from conservative media giant Breitbart.com because its 45,000,000 monthly conservative readers are not "aligned with our values as a company.†In response, Breitbart News, one of the world’s top news publishers, has launched a #DumpKelloggs petition and called for a boycott of the ubiquitous food manufacturer.
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Kellogg’s offered no examples of how Breitbart’s 45 million monthly readers fail to align with the breakfast maker’s values. Indeed, the move appears to be one more example of an out-of-touch corporation embracing false left-wing narratives used to cynically smear the hard working Americans that populate this nation’s heartland.
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UPDATE
Yes, Kellogg's has opened a can of worms (or Pringles) and found the sweat of eight year old children inside. According to Amnesty Int'l, Kellogg's uses palm oil from Indonesia that is made by child labor. So much for the "values" of Kellogg's politically correct company. And Breitbart is more than happy to spread the word in the U.S. to liberal and conservative alike. Now Kellogg's has both the left and the right hating them. I guess Kellogg's doesn't like Trump because he doesn't use child labor...
Jack
UPDATE
Yes, Kellogg's has opened a can of worms (or Pringles) and found the sweat of eight year old children inside. According to Amnesty Int'l, Kellogg's uses palm oil from Indonesia that is made by child labor. So much for the "values" of Kellogg's politically correct company. And Breitbart is more than happy to spread the word in the U.S. to liberal and conservative alike. Now Kellogg's has both the left and the right hating them. I guess Kellogg's doesn't like Trump because he doesn't use child labor...
Jack
SHOCK: Amnesty International Blasts Kellogg’s for Using Child Labor-Produced Ingredients
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The international human rights organization Amnesty International is slamming Kellogg’s and other companies that it says are profiting from child labor and other exploitative practices.
The new report,
"The Great Palm Oil Scandal,†released Wednesday, "investigates labour
exploitation on plantations in Indonesia that provide palm oil to
Wilmar, which is the world’s largest processor and merchandiser of palm
and lauric (palm kernel) oils and controls over 43% of the global palm
oil trade.â€
Wilmar provides palm oil to Kellogg’s and other producers of consumer goods.
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In addition, Amnesty International found evidence of forced labor —
specifically involving women: "Amnesty International documented cases of
foremen threatening women workers in plant maintenance units with not
being paid or having their pay deducted in order to exact work from
them.†It also reports that some of Wilmar’s subsidiaries do not pay
workers a daily minimum wage if they fail to meet their harvesting
quotas.
Amnesty
International points the finger directly at Kellogg’s, among other
companies, saying that it is "sourcing palm oil from refineries where
the palm oil has been directly supplied or, at the very least, been
mixed with palm oil produced on plantations where there are severe
labour rights abuses.†The organization reports that neither Kellogg’s
nor any of the other companies had done enough due diligence to
determine that child labor was being used in their supply chain.
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