When I boarded the plane in North Carolina to go to Chicago just a few days ago to deliver over 270,000 petitions to Kraft headquarters, I wasn’t sure what was going to happen.
Over the course of this week, several media outlets have interviewed me before, during and after my visit to Kraft where they reported bits and pieces of what happened; however, they didn’t share the whole inside story and that is why I want you to know everything that happened that day including everything that led up to the behind-closed-doors conversation I had with Kraft.
No April Fool’s Joke
On Monday, which happened to be April Fool’s Day, I woke up at 5am to a very chilly morning in Chicago to get ready for a live TV interview on Fox News Chicago. I spent the night before thinking about what I was going to say and preparing for questions. There was one thing I wanted to get across in the interview – I wanted to ask Kraft on live TV, why they have refused to meet with me (after repeated attempts to reach out to them) and why they haven’t listened to over 270,000 thousand consumers. Luckily during the interview, I was able to ask those questions. My favorite line was telling Kraft “I’m not the boogie man.” To my surprise, Fox invited their medical correspondent on the show with me, who ended up confirming the research that there is a correlation between hyperactivity and the consumption of food dyes. This doctor even went on on live TV again in the afternoon that day, to confirm these findings in the evening broadcast. Many people at the station told me they appreciated my efforts to raise awareness about food safety. So of course, I took a moment and tweeted that.
I headed back to my hotel, where I was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune. The reporter grilled me – it was a lively debate and the article ended up having one of the best titles of day “Kraft served in mac ‘n’ cheese fight.”
Taste Test On The Streets of Chicago
To prove that the UK version of Kraft Mac & Cheese made with natural dyes was just as yellow and tasty as the US version, I held a taste test on the Chicago streets in front of the Jewel Osco Market on State Street. Even though Dr. Oz confirmed they virtually look and taste the same on his show, just as I did initially when I launched the petition, I felt like this exercise would be important to get the general public aware of the issue in Kraft’s own backyard.
We stayed at a hotel that had a kitchen, which I loved for personal reasons for preparing and eating healthy food, but the real reason we did this was to have the ability to make the UK version and store it in thermoses to keep it hot for the taste testing.
When I got to the market with all the samples, I was swarmed by the media to the point of total distraction from the original intent. Reporters wanted to interview me at the same time I was trying to approach the public to participate in the taste test. I tried to talk to as many people as I could with a tray of Mac & Cheese in the freezing cold weather. My fingers went completely numb even with gloves on! I was really surprised at how many people stopped to talk to me, considering the conditions. The comments and reactions were priceless – almost everyone said the UK version tasted great, they loved the color and couldn’t tell a difference, especially the kids. It was gratifying to know so many people, once they understood the issue, said they would choose the Mac & Cheese product without dyes too.
Delivering The Petitions
After the taste testing, I headed to Northfield, IL, where Kraft headquarters is located, to deliver the petitions. There was a Whole Foods right across the street, which was really convenient! We stopped there to fuel up, I bought some tea, a green juice and a cookie (full disclosure!).
When it was time, we headed to the parking lot across the street from the Kraft Headquarters and parked at the CVS. I was greeted by some amazing readers of this blog and supporters of the campaign. These new friends I made are truly incredible warriors and voices, I was touched by their commitment, positive energy and support.
We walked the boxes of 270,000 signatures across the street to the corner of the security entrance (technically on Kraft’s property) and set up on the side walk to give a speech on why I was there. Pulin Modi from change.org who has been with us every step of the way introduced me…You can read the entire transcript of the speech here.
After delivering this speech, we picked up the boxes and headed to the front gate. Immediately the security guard came out from the booth and gave me a clipboard to sign my name. She said, pointing at me, “you are the only one allowed in” and asked us to put the boxes down so they could be collected.
I didn’t quite understand the impact of what was happening at the moment – I kinda froze and then I looked around, screamed “YES!”, gave a hug to the team at change.org who have been with me from the start of this campaign and to the supporters who came out that day. I looked up at the sky and thanked God. I began to feel the magnitude of the over 270,000 voices I was representing. The letters from all the people and children harmed by these dyes went through my head. Tears of joy ran down my face – mascara went everywhere.
Before leaving with the security guard to be escorted to the front, I turned to the media cameras and told them “This is a monumental moment, people have been trying to get artificial food dye out of food for decades.” And thanked everyone who called that day. ABC in Chicago captured the moment here.
Then I proceeded to walk through the gate, escorted by security, where I was told I could take no pictures. I called two people on my walk in, Lisa Leake who started this petition with me and my husband. I also texted my Mom and told her “Kraft is letting me in”, she immediately wrote back “stay calm love.”
The Power of Your Voice – The Food Babe Army
Before this moment, I didn’t have a scheduled meeting with Kraft, in fact, Kraft had refused to meet with me and ignored our requests to have a conversation about the petition for the entire last month. A few hours before heading to the headquarters, I posted a message on Facebook asking fans to call the headquarters on my behalf to ask Kraft to meet with me. I wasn’t the only one who did this, several other food advocates (and personal friends) shared this message with their fans too – The Cornucopia Institute, CEO of Nutiva – John Roulac, GMO Inside, Leah from Mamavation, Cheri from Label GMOs Hollywood, CSPI, Ann Marie from Cheese Slave, Max from Livingmaxwell, Lisa from 100 Days of Real Food, and countless other fans. I didn’t know at the time, but this tactic ended up being one of the most powerful social media events I have ever witnessed. Reading the comments on facebook was so inspiring, people were put on hold for over 10 mins and did not give up. Kraft eventually went from ignoring my emails and voicemails to finally deciding to meet. I believe the persistence and calls of supporters that day is what led Kraft to finally agree to sit down with me.
Here was the graphic posted and shared all over facebook that day:
The Meeting: Behind Closed Doors with Kraft
Once in the building, I was introduced to Lynne Galia and Basil Maglaris from Corporate Affairs (not the CEO Tony Vernon or Head of Mac & Cheese Noelle O’Mara like I had requested) and we went to go find a conference room. Obviously they had not reserved a room for my visit so there was a bit of confusion trying to get a space to sit down and talk.
I asked for their cards, but they both didn’t have one on them (I wonder if it’s because they didn’t want me to have their phone numbers?)
I asked them if I could conference in Lisa, and they obliged. But first, they made it clear that I wasn’t allowed to tape record the meeting in any capacity and Lynne showed me her phone when she turned it off.
As soon as we began talking, they immediately reiterated their position in the previous letter they posted on their website and asked us if we had anything new to share with them. We asked why haven’t they listened to over 270,000 people demanding the removal of artificial dyes? And they said “we are listening and have 14 different options that do not have dyes.”
We explained our position about those 14 options.
- There are over 30 Kraft Mac & Cheese products that have artificial dyes, and the average consumer cannot tell the difference between the similar looking blue boxes to avoid dye. We asked if Kraft would consider a label change to be more clear but Lynne refused to entertain this idea.
- Kraft’s dye free options are not available at every grocery store, we cited examples including reader feedback from calls to customer service, reader pictures of various grocery store shelves, and my own experience earlier that day at Jewel Osco market in Chicago to prove our point. We explained there is not a version without dye in every grocery store side by side with the regular version. Lynn said in response that consumers have to read the ingredient label, then call the customer service hotline to find the products without dyes and can buy different versions on Amazon.com – I stated that is an unrealistic expectation to ask of most consumers, and how would they even know about the dye free option, if they have never even seen it in their stores or unaware of the health issues associated with dyes?
- The Kraft Mac & Cheese that is available in kid’s menus across the nation at various chain restaurants like Applebees, IHOP, and Bob Evans do not give a choice, all of those children who order off these menus receive Kraft with artificial dye.
- The majority of the 14 options (all but 1) are more expensive – sometimes twice the price of the original blue box. While the UK version is just 10 cents more than the regular blue box version – a reasonable difference consumers could afford.
- Many varieties of the homestyle versions of Mac & Cheese are totally different and do not compare to the original blue box Mac & Cheese. (For example, they have other additives like partially hydrogenated oils (a.k.a. trans fat), corn syrup and GMOs.) How is avoiding artificial dyes and eating other additives really a choice?
- Kraft’s dye free options are not the ones marketed toward children with cartoon characters and other sayings – Kraft currently offers no dye free options to children. I asked Lynne and Basil if they would consider offering a version of Kraft without dyes to kids, they declined to answer.
- Two of the options Kraft lists are dye free actually do have dyes if you buy the microwave version. Lynne claimed that only the “bag” version is dye free. We explained this was very confusing to the average consumer and unfair to the person who chooses to microwave their food vs. cook it over the stove. It also makes their “letter to fans” inaccurate. Basil wrote a note about this on his piece of paper.
Lynne also reiterated that they are complying with the FDA laws and look to “scientists and regulators” when formulating their products. Which prompted me to ask “Why did Kraft spend over 10 million dollars during the last 5 years lobbying the FDA? And why does Europe require a warning label for these dyes?”
She didn’t answer the questions and looked visibly uncomfortable when I asked them.
Lynne said Kraft is listening to their customers who want to keep Mac & Cheese just the way it is. We asked her how Kraft defined the word “listening,” since there were over 270,000 people requesting the removal. We wanted to know who the people were that want artificial dyes in their food? She couldn’t answer that question – so we asked “How do you define “listening” – and she explained that the people who are still buying the product (i.e. the people who don’t know about this issue yet) are the ones they are listening to – in other words, we explained – you are listening to your sales of Mac & Cheese, the bottom line, correct? And she nodded.
I realized the tone of the meeting from the get go, wasn’t very positive, but I stayed on message and asked pointed questions, sometimes asking the same question two and three times to see if we could get answer…
One of the questions I asked repeatedly was this:
Why did you reformulate Mac & Cheese without artificial food dyes overseas but not here? And why did Kraft do it for almost the entire line of products including, Lunchables, Trident, Halls, Pillsbury, and Ritz Cheese Crackers? Artificial food dyes are still allowed in Europe – but you reformulated them there? Why?
I just wanted to hear the answer as I understood it. We know Kraft did it to avoid the warning label that is required in Europe when a product uses artificial dyes and wanted them to be honest and admit this but neither of Kraft’s representatives wanted to answer the question truthfully and said “I don’t know” each time we asked those questions. At one point I asked to speak to the person in charge of the UK version of Mac & Cheese, and Lynn said that was her territory, but she didn’t know the answer to our questions, so I asked – who does know the answers? Can we talk to them? She refused my request.
Lynne, exhausted from having to answer “I don’t know” several times during the meeting, said she “might” consider following up on that question.
Hearing, that we weren’t going to get the action from Kraft we wanted, I asked if we could set up a follow up meeting in 2 weeks to get answers to our questions, and see if we could stay in touch regarding this issue and whether any progress is being made at Kraft towards removing artificial dyes. Basil said “2 weeks is arbitrary” and Lynne, added “In 2 weeks -our position will be the same.”
We asked Lynne and Basil if they fed their kids Mac & Cheese and what versions they choose. Both of them answered several different versions including the ones with dyes, and Basil mentioning his family likes adding extra cheddar cheese (likely Kraft brand) to the boxed versions.
Towards the end of the meeting, I asked if Kraft was planning to eliminate the dyes anytime in the future, and if it was on their radar (considering they said in June 2012 they were looking into replacing artificial dyes with more natural options.) If Kraft was not ready to talk about it, we offered to back off. I even proposed to keep any of their plans to remove the dye private until they were ready and ignore media who was waiting outside. We handed them a carrot, but they didn’t bite. Instead, Lynne offered that she couldn’t “predict the future” and ultimately left the meeting saying she believes “Kraft is making the right choice” and “we have to agree to disagree.”
At the end of the meeting – Lynne claimed that she was taking our concerns and unanswered questions to other colleagues but I noticed she didn’t take any notes during our meeting. Her notepad was left entirely blank, while I had taken over 3 pages of notes.
After the meeting, I was walked to the main gate by security, and to my surprise, the boxes of petitions were still there. I found it comical that they left them out there for so long considering all the employees coming in and out of the building.
The supporters who came out that day waited over an hour for me to return from the meeting – it was an incredible feeling having them greet me at the end of the meeting. A video from Progressive Illinois captured what I said and shared at that moment here.
Result: Kraft’s Brand Damaged, Boycotts Ensue
Kraft made a very calculated move to sit down with me. That was one thing they did right to avoid further criticism. Could you imagine the backlash from the media if they didn’t accept the 270,000 petitions we delivered to their front door?
However, as you can see from the results of the meeting, Kraft continues to be in denial. One of my mentors stated that getting inside Kraft’s headquarters is indicative of the food industry berlin wall falling one pebble at a time…The potential brand damage that Kraft could suffer from not listening to concerned customers is tremendous – just use google news to google kraft mac & cheese and you can see what I’m talking about. I truly believe down the road, Kraft will make this change. We’ve seen this denial over and over again, companies say no a few times, before they say yes – especially when their decisions start to hurt their bottom line.
Readers, fans and supporters have already started to vote with their dollars and have stopped buying not only Kraft Mac & Cheese, but all of Kraft’s Products. If you’ve been following me for sometime, you know this – I personally haven’t bought anything from Kraft (except the Mac & Cheese I had to for this campaign) since they gave 2 million dollars fighting against our right to know and labeling of genetically engineered foods.
Trust me when I say this is not over and we have a lot of creative ideas planned to keep this pressure on and want you all to be even more involved!
Please make sure you sign up for my email list to stay up to date and follow me on facebook and twitter. Keep sharing this petition. And most importantly, keep talking to your friends and family about why they should not be consuming these artificial, petroleum-based dyes.
We can do this together – I know it.
Thank you!
Food Babe
WAY TO GO, FOOD BABE!
You are setting the stage for ALL of us to join you in our fight to get the crap out of food!
Thank you for helping wake people up to the reality of what’s in the ‘food’ they purchase and how we ALL can very easily vote with our dollars for a healthier and more sustainable world!!
Love,
Diane Smith
Best way to fight this is to stop buying their products…I go out of my way to only buy organic-non processed foods.
Kraft better be very afraid..:) THANK YOU for standing up for what you believe in and what is right,and being a voice for our nation and it’s people! Amazing!!!!!!!
wow! i am kind of shocked that the people at kraft came across as being so ignorant. as this is going on for a while, you’d think they would have taken the time to at least try to counter your arguments with more than “i don’t know.” that is super sad on their part. keep up the good work!! you have my support!
The day you were in the meeting I read Kraft’s whole history and found out what companies they own. Ill be sure to not spend any of my money on any of those products until they start practicing what they preach. Thanks for bringing all this to my attention. I had NO idea how big of a company it is. It also opened my eyes up to how important local farmers and other local businesses are.
That is incredible! Thank you for being such a food advocate!
Food babe – i think what you are doing is tremendous. I want the truth and i am sure many others do too…God bless your endless efforts. As a new mom i want only the best nutrition for my baby girl and all of my family: You have my support!
You are such a warrior. Your passion and dedication is inspiring. I can’t wait to see what else you have in store for these guys. Just let us know what you need for support – I will have your back! It’s time to get the garbage out of our food supply, and it has to start somewhere.
I commend you for your fight, but I think you’re missing what they “weren’t saying”. First and foremost, they will continue to use artificial dye’s because of their relationship with the petro-chemical companies that produce such poison. Secondly, while the dies are pretty bad, any parent that would feed their kids KD shouldn’t be allowed to raise children. The stuff is disgusting, un-healthy and probably has a lot more “crap” in it than Yellow dye #5.
I haven’t bought a Kraft product for over 5 years, and even if they suddenly became “super healthy” I still would continue to boycott them. As long as we support large corporations as our primary food suppliers, we will continue to see cancer, heart disease and other illnesses rise. Eat local, eat healthy.
Thanks. You are one of the few who can see the forest instead of the trees. Keep spreading the truth, we all depend on it.
That was awesome! Keep the faith and “Fight On”!
THANKS so much for being our voice behind the signatures!!
Great job!! I hope Kraft will think about all of this and decide to do what is right!
This is great! I loved the taste test between the UK and US version of their mac and cheese. The UK has so many awesome food standards. I did a whole write up on their Chocolate requirements for a business course in college. I also had a Disney worker form the UK tell me she had her family send her box food regularly because our versions had awful ingredients and quite frankly tasted terrible, especially our chocolate! I witnessed this first had with a British kit kat bar. Theirs is 100x better than ours!! That aside, I’ve been reading your blog for a while and have finally really become concerned with what my family and I eat! 🙂 Thank you!
The Kraft number to call if you want to let them know that you will be boycotting all of Kraft Foods is 1-800-323-0768. You will have to put up with an ad before they connect you with a human, and the human will try to tell you… It still felt good calling.
Awesome! Calling right now, thanks
Thank you!!
Fantastic article, keep pushing, the wall will fall. I love the fact that the Kraft rep is “taking our concerns and unanswered questions to other colleagues” but didn’t take any notes during the meeting! That gives their true position right there.
Keep pushing – the PR will eventually wear them down. Can you get into Kraft UK and talk to them? Get them on the phone or make a visit, and see what they say! That would be too funny.
Thank you SO much for what you are doing!!! You are working towards a better world for so many children. I have talked to so many people who have no idea how harmful artificial dyes are. In fact, my son’s fifth grade teachers are planning on ‘rewarding’ the kids during their week of state testing with swedish fish, gummy bears, dum dums, and nerds! I wonder what those test results will be like! My son will be bringing his own snack in. I truly hope that someday there will be no artificial dyes in our food supply. As consumers, we need to demand it!
You are doing AWESOME!!!!!
I support your effort to ban Kraft Food Products from my home!
Good-Bye Kraft!!
Keep fight the good fight Food Babe and all the conscientious foodies in this country. We can only make them change by the power of the fork!!! Hit them where it hurts…their bottomline! Unfortunately this is the only way!! I have boycotted Kraft products for years so you don’t have to worry about me…. We have to get consumers to start caring about what they feed themselves and their little ones. David will beat Goliath someday!!! 😀
It’s a good start, but will an “artificial dye-free” mac n cheese be safe for children? What about rBGH? http://www.lipstickalley.com/f50/kraft-puts-growth-hormone-mac-cheese-287664/
Even though not all questions were answered and Kraft clearly only cares about the bottom dollar, not consumers themselves, I was so HAPPY when I read this. Vani, Lisa, and everyone out there doing their part, you are amazing. I love your never give up or give in attitude. Thank you for being Krafts NON CONSUMERS voices 🙂
I think the best thing I can do is vote with my dollars. We don’t eat much processed food, so we don’t buy many on the graphic, but a couple were slipping by me. I will not be purchasing any Kraft related brands in the future. Thank you for the information and keep up the good work. You are very courageous!
Way to go Food Babe, thanks on behalf of the millions out there that are unknowingly eating these chemicals and feeding them to their kids. You can bet we’ll be sharing this with everyone we know, and the Kraft boycott is on in our house. Being vegan, there’s not a whole lot of Kraft product we eat anyway, but we do enjoy their vegan Boca Burgers. Not anymore, until they step up and do the right thing.
Wow you are truly amazing! Words cannot even explain! Thank you so much for everything.
The only thing I’ve bought in years from Kraft is the Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate and Cocoa. Not anymore. They are officially on the ban list. Not only from serving dyes, but from GMO ingredients and total poison to the human race.
As a Brit reading this I wanted to send my congratulations on your progress and wish you luck for the future.
Awesome job food babe, you have so much to be proud of! This is amazing to watch and be part of. Of course I signed the petition immediately and I also wrote to Kraft after i saw all you and lisa were doing to fight this. i specifically wrote to noelle o’mara:
As a consumer in the United States of America and being an American who considers Kraft to be an iconic American food, I cannot understand how your company wouldn’t want to take the important lead in removing artificial food dyes from your products. There are many people who would be willing to pay a little more for better quality products. My family and I do not consume your products since we prefer more wholesome, clean foods so I do not write this letter for my own benefit- I will continue to purchase organic healthier brands of macaroni and cheese and vote with my dollar. I write this letter for all those Americans who unfortunately don’t know better and whom I hope to help educate one day as a holistic health coach.
Can you help me understand why Kraft is not willing to take this step and be a proponent of positive change in a nation where we are witnessing consistently worsening overall health? Why wait for the FDA when you have the power to be a leader and make the responsible decision to help the future of our country? One change by Kraft could be what we need to help begin to turn the tide in our country towards better health, and then better health for the world.
Thank you for your time,
Heather
I also posted it on their Facebook page
I have yet to hear back from her! I am so happy you got in to the headquarters! It’s amazing how human beings will ignore what is morally right just to keep their bottom line more lucrative and how the rest of their staff is so brainwashed. Keep fighting and let us know how we can help!
You guys are awesome! Thanks for fighting the fight, keep it up, and we are behind you!
Hey FoodBabe! I was curious how could we go about maybe having artificial food dyes removed from the FDA’s approved list? It seems that Kraft, and most likely every other major food manufacturing chain, will only change if we force the government to change approved items. Any thoughts on this? BTW, you are soooo flipping AWESOME for what you do! I super appreciate EVERYTHING you’ve done and love your research!
Can you make that graphic with all the logos shareable on FB?
Yes I was thinking the same thing!
Thanks for all you do, Vani!! I was heartbroken in November about the outcome of Prop 37, but your get it done attitude makes me have hope again! Great work!!
Last year, I hosted a party in hopes of enlightening my friends into what is not only in their food but in beauty and cleaning products as well. After telling one friend that the party was to raise awareness about chemicals in the food we feed our children, she replied “oh, I’m not worried about that”. I was floored. It is so unfortunate that even when given this information that parents do not care.
I’m in Canada. I have stopped buying ALL Kraft products and not only that, but I went through my cupboards and pantry and threw out every single Kraft product. I will not even donate them to a food bank. I’m telling everyone I know to boycott them as well. GET THE DYES OUT OF OUR FOOD!
Keep the pressure on! Thank you for caring about the health of the children here in the US.
Way to go, Vani!
And thank you for ending your article with info about Kraft & GMOs. I’m glad to see you using the media in such a tremendous way.
BTW BT cottonseed oil, used to roast nuts, causes people with arthritis to react with excruciating pain. Anyone sensitive to nightshade vegetables should also avoid BT corn and cottonseed oil. Glad to see the Planters label listed above as a product to avoid, along with the rest of Krafts products.
Go Vani go!!
Look at their products, what a bunch of junk. And this is what mainstream america is willing to eat. I make sure I don’t buy anything from them or anyone else who helped defeat prop 37.We make almost all of our own food at home, it’s work, but it’s real, and it’s good. Grow a lot of our food and buy mostly organic. It’s sad you can’t find much real food in a grocery store anymore. Boycott, everyone! We must stand together, especially now with the Monsanto rider passed! Way to go, Food Babe! Think it’s time to visit Kraft’s Facebook page again.
You should sell shirts and/or buttons that read “Ask me why I don’t purchase Kraft products” that moms can wear while grocery shopping.
Yes!..I’d buy one!
Before I go to the grocery store I write notes on a post it pad like “change.org/kraft-yellow”, “‘food”+artificial dyes= ADHD in children”, ” “Did you know BTH is in this product and banned in a llot of European countries?” and I post them on products all over the store. I’m waiting for the day stop and shop throws me out!
Love this idea!
Just the fact that you got into Kraft headquarters is AMAZING! We just all need to keep the pressure on them, and eventually (just like you said) they will cave. They can only stay in denial for so long. Thank you so much for going to such depths to improve our food safety.
We are diggin what you guys are doing and have made the choice to stand with you! We DO NOT buy any more Kraft products at all and won’t till they do the right thing-depending on how long that takes will also determine if we EVER buy them again.
Keep the Fight!
Thanks Food Babe!
Time to bypass Kraft and go to the restaurant chains that serve Kraft. Petition them to start offering Annie’s organic Mac n cheese on their kids meals.
That’s where the big change is needed !!
Love it! Thanks so much for fighting this charge. I have PCOS and eating whole foods is the best way I can combat it. Thanks for taking the charge. Don’t worry I plan to print the graphic above and will never spend another dollar on a Kraft product. This is just ridiculous!
Vani and Lisa, you are both amazing!! Thank you so much for fighting this fight! Posted this on my facebook page and hoping to continue to spread the word 🙂
This is awesome! Thanks for all you do!
I stumbled upon Lisa’s blog about 2 months ago and my outlook on food was COMPLETELY changed. Our family has been eating as cleanly and GMO/dye free as possible ever since. I used to look forward to my seasonal Kraft magazine cookbook coming and I always found so many recipes that I loved. Not anymore. I can’t believe that a company who I’ve always thought of as family oriented and high quality is as deceitful and as dirty (in their food products and ethics) as they are. I’m only one person but I’ve begun voting with my dollars for healthy, whole food and I really hope we can keep raising awareness and make change. Thank you for your hard work.
Just made homemade Mac-N-Cheese, naturally. Thanks Food Babe for all your work in protecting our children and grandchildren.
Thank you a million times for your persistence and dedication to this cause. I truly appreicate your enthusiasm and passion and seeing all the opportunities, and seizing them. I believe in what you are doing 100%. I have been following your blog for about a year, and have really benefited from all of your research. I also want to thank you for taking the time to write out a full report of what happened. I was trying to follow the news postings of everything, but it is so nice to get to read it in your words. Don’t give up! I am definitely voting with my dollars and not buying any Kraft owned products as well as anything that has more than 7 ingredients, really! I just wanted to let you know, that you are inspiring the change, even if it is one household at a time! God Bless!
You are amazing! We are behind you 1000%! Boycott Kraft.
You are so on fire! Aaahh! I can just taste the end! When you’re all rested up from the victory of this one, lets get Mansanto next!
I get chills when I read how amazing you and your one-woman campaign(s) are. I know you will respond that you have help, that in the case of craft you had 270,000 thousand people to help. But truthfully, it was easy to fill out the petition and to boycott the product; the difficult part was taking that necessary step further and going to Kraft and asking those tough questions. I am always inspired by your tenacity and ability to persevere even when the hurdles are being thrown up in your path. You are my modern-day hero! Thank you for you for working so hard for the health and safety of everyone else!
“Kraft” not craft 🙁