Eden Foods' Hobby Lobby-esque Birth Control Fight Sparks Boycott

[doxydad]

Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby ruling, Eden Foods CEO Michael Potter has revived a March 2013 case to nix coverage of all birth control from his employees’ healthcare plans. In turn, many shoppers have soured on the organic food giant and are boycotting its products.

“In accordance with his Catholic faith, Potter believes that any action which either before, at the moment of, or after sexual intercourse, is specifically intended to prevent procreation, whether as an end or means -- including abortifacients and contraception -- is wrong,” Erin Mersino, Eden’s lawyer from the conservative Thomas More Law Center, said in a statement sent to The Huffington Post on Friday.

Last month, Hobby Lobby won the right to shirk a clause in the Affordable Care Act that requires employers who provide health insurance to cover all Food and Drug Administration-approved forms of birth control. The company, which is owned by a family of evangelical Christians, opposed emergency contraceptives such as “morning after” pills Plan B and Ella and intrauterine devices, which it believes are tantamount to abortion.

Eden's founder and chief executive goes one step further, opposing all birth control.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/eden-birth-control_n_5599778.html

[GeorgeGist]

1. Wasn't it eating apples that got Adam and Eve kicked out of Eden?

[Freddie]

2. Our organic/natural food will keep you healthy through your 10th pregnancy, ladies!

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I'd boycott them if I bothered with that stuff (organic food). Did some research and was happy to find out that Silk soy milk, which my granddaughter loves, is not made by Eden.
Don't they realize that their targeted buyers are liberal-leaning women?

[BrotherIvan]

9. Maybe check out coconut milk

If you want to avoid dairy, coconut or almond milk are nice alternatives as they don't contain the massive hormones of soy milk. Also, if you have a high-speed blender, you can make your own and it tastes great!

[peacebird]

3. Not buying Eden Foods any longer.

Adding Eden Foods to my boycott list, along with HL, and ANY company that posts that 'fish' logo....

[secondwind]

4. I couldn't agree more..

[catbyte]

8. how about my fish logo?

[peacebird]

12. Love it!

[MohRokTah]

5. I was a long time customer of Eden foods.

Keyword was.

[eggplant]

6. Make sure to tell them.

[MohRokTah]

7. I did. eom

[BrotherIvan]

10. This guy is an ass

We've been boycotting them for a long time. I really hope some better company that won't discriminate takes their place so these nutjobs go out of business.

[alp227]

11. What else does he want, a virginity test for unmarried women who work for Eden? nt

[betterdemsonly]

13. I think this boycott will work because most of their customers are liberal vegans n/t