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Shares of woke coroporate cereal maker Kellogg have fallen more than 15 percent since blacklisting Breitbart five years ago. The broader stock market is up 106 percent over the period.
Left-wing groups are calling for a consumer boycott of Kellogg’s cereals in solidarity with 1,400 workers who have gone on strike to protest what they say are grueling working conditions, and threats by management to move their jobs to Mexico.
Kellogg is recalling Honey Smacks — the breakfast cereal with the green frog mascot — after government health officials said the product was linked to a salmonella outbreak in several states.
Kellogg’s, a company with an established reputation for caving in to left-wing pressure, has done so again — over a single tweet.
The leftwing W.K. Kellogg foundation controls the company, owns 20% of its stock, and two of the its trustees sit on the company’s board.
Troubled cereal giant Kellogg is continuing its reductions by shedding almost 300 more jobs, this time at facilities in New York.
Jim Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, says his organization will “fight” Kellogg’s decision to shift from direct delivery of its foods to stores, a move that will result in the firing of more than 1,100 full-time workers at Kellogg’s facilities across the country.
John Carney, Breitbart News economics and finance editor, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the fallout from Kellogg’s attack on Breitbart News. Marlow saw it as an unfortunate but necessary victory that Kellogg’s has been obliged to shut down 39 distribution centers, with the potential loss of up to 1,100 jobs, as a result of its decision to engage in partisan politics.
Kellogg’s CEO John Bryant says the company’s plummeting stock and reported $53 million loss in the fourth quarter are unrelated to the company’s politically driven decision last year to pull ads from Breitbart News, which spurred a boycott campaign and intense online backlash.
USA TODAY reports that downsizing at various Kellogg’s facilities across the country could put 1,110 Americans out of work.
Kellogg’s is shutting down 39 distribution centers across the country, the embattled cereal giant announced this week.
Per a WTHI report, Kellogg’s Snacks Plant in Seelyville, IN is participating in the #DumpKelloggs boycott, and is set to close by September of this year. Company officials announced in August of 2016 that the plant will cease work, leaving 150
Citing its “values as a company” to justify its decision to withdraw advertising from the Breitbart News site, Kellogg’s failed to mention that its flagship cereal was invented as a cure for masturbation.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation gave nearly two million dollars to the John Podesta-founded Center for American Progress and a closely affiliated organization called Washington Center for Equitable Growth that also lists John Podesta as a founder.
The Kellogg Company’s namesake nonprofit, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, has given over half a million dollars to the community organizing group Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), a pro-open borders group headed by Opal Tometi, one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Adweek reports that Kellogg’s decision to pull its advertising from Breitbart News inflicted massive, longterm damage to the cereal company’s brand online.
The Wall Street Journal concludes that Kellogg’s politically-driven decision to pick a food fight with Breitbart has bruised its brand.
Citing a loss of market, Credit Suisse has lowered its rating for shares of cereal giant Kellogg from outperform to neutral. The bank insists that Kellogg’s has lost the youth market severely crimping profits.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the namesake nonprofit arm of the Kellogg Company, has given $310,000 to the California-based community organizing group Causa Justa :: Just Cause, an open border pro-illegal immigration group. Causa Justa :: Just Cause also has connections to a group called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization that promotes breaking the United States up into race-based nation states.
In his latest op-ed, World Net Daily founder, editor, and CEO Joseph Farah offers a generous endorsement of Breitbart’s #DumpKelloggs boycott, declaring that his website, in solidarity with Breitbart, will no longer accept advertising from Kellogg’s.
Jack Marshall and Suzanne Vranica report in the Wall Street Journal on the efforts of leftwing organizers to get companies to blacklist Breitbart News from automated ad placement technologies and what impact this could have on the future of Internet advertising. As Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow makes clear, these efforts have had “little to no impact” on Breitbart.
Tony Perkins, host of the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch radio show, discussed the #DumpKelloggs boycott with Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov on Monday.
If you’re not a regular reader of Breitbart News, you may be a little confused by our #DumpKelloggs campaign and the stories about Kellogg’s that may have hit your news feed recently.
Adam Johnson, the Bullseye Brief author and former Bloomberg Television anchor, says that Kellogg’s is making a grave mistake by “taking their eye off the ball” and picking a political fight with Breitbart News at the behest of left-wing groups.
Kellogg’s, a company facing accusations of profiting from child labor practices at an Indonesian supplier, has also faced multiple food product recalls in recent years, some involving products marketed specifically to children in the United States.
John Hinderaker of the conservative blog Powerline offers support for Breitbart’s #DumpKelloggs boycott, noting that if Kellogg’s wants to align itself with “a vicious, bullying left-wing minority,” then they “should understand that such decisions have consequences” because we do not live in “a one-party state.”
Conservatives across Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook are using the #DumpKelloggs hashtag to protest the company’s recent decision to pull their ads from Breitbart News.
Conservative blogger Ace of Spades offers support to Breitbart’s #DumpKelloggs boycott, noting that corporations are joining the culture wars on behalf of the bullying left, while the right foolishly “is a patsy who will go along with anything, including its own denigration” due to a “misplaced” sense of principles that prevents it from acting, even as “the left continues organizing every institution, media group, and corporation as bases of operation to destroy us.”
Author and radio host Mark Steyn offers support to Breitbart’s #DumpKelloggs boycott in his latest column, noting the danger posed to free speech and culture when corporations increasingly politicize every issue by siding with the left in order to silence or de-legitimize the left’s political opponents, which Steyn writes is the real aim of Kellogg’s actions.
The Democrats have lost the White House as well as the Congress, and the American left finds itself out of power in Washington, DC. And yet this new crop of exiled leftists won’t have to march very far to find safe harbor.
Steven Ertelt of the pro-life news site LifeNews.com reports on the Kellogg Company’s decision to pull ads from Breitbart News because Breitbart and our 45 million monthly readers don’t share the cereal giant’s “values.”
A YouTuber who goes by the name Joey’s Garage is joining in on the #DumpKelloggs movement in a unique way. “Today is a very sad day,” Joey’s Garage says in the video under the title “Goodbye.” “I’ve got to say goodbye,” he adds. “Not to you guys, but to Kellogg’s.”
Thanks to Breitbart News’ #DumpKelloggs petition, over 380,000 Americans, many of whom voted for President-elect Donald Trump, have vowed to boycott Kellogg’s after the cereal company’s decision to pull its advertising.
Breitbart News’ #DumpKelloggs petition initiative has garnered a whopping 250,000 signatures within 48 hours of Kellogg’s decision to pull its advertising in an attack on the “values” of Breitbart and its 45 million monthly readers.
The New York Post’s Claire Atkinson reports on the impact Breitbart’s boycott of Kellogg’s has had on the cereal giant’s stock. The #DumpKelloggs boycott effort was launched in response to Kellogg’s attack on the “values” of Breitbart and our 45 million monthly readers.
Lawrence Meyers of InvestorPlace’s InvestorPolitics forum writes that the Kellogg Company “is being incredibly, mind-numbingly stupid” by openly attacking Breitbart News after buying into “the media’s false narrative that conservatives and Breitbart’s website consist of deplorables, haters, racists, sexists, White Nationalists, who also kick puppies and club baby seals.” Kellogg’s actions, Meyers writes, “immediately alienates up to half of its domestic consumers.” He warns, “You do not pick a fight with Breitbart.”
Kellogg’s shares (NYSE: K) dropped 1.44% on Thursday, the day after accusations of child labor exploitation and the launch of Breitbart News’ #DumpKelloggs campaign brought the snack company’s value down 2%.
Yahoo! Finance weighed in on the “#DumpKelloggs” campaign on Wednesday, concluding that Kellogg’s had made a mistake by picking a fight with Breitbart News. “Cereal needs to be agnostic,” said Alexis Christoforous, the host of The Final Round.
