Posted by Hemant Mehta in It happens at In-N-Out Burger, Alaska Airlines, and Forever 21 — Christians verses popping out at you when you least expect it. No, it’s not a big deal, but it’s a little off-putting when you find out your sandwich and sweater are made of Jesus.
Now, it’s happening in Aldi stores.
Reader Trace bought a carton of eggs from the grocery store and saw this on the inside:
This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. — Psalm 118:24
So you’re not going to lose sleep over this. But it raises this question (from Trace):
Should you stop buying/consuming “Christian” eggs (even when they are darn cheap, large and fresh)?
On a side note, they should *totally* run a contest in which one egg in some unknown carton contains a plastic Jesus inside. If you find it, you get free eggs for a whole year.
This isn’t even almost kind of new. This verse has been in egg cartons since I was a kid.
Is it a bad thing that I’d totally participate because, well… FREE EGGS?
I love and will continue to purchase items from Forever 21 and In-N-Out. Displaying Bible verses is fine by me, because they are privately owned companies. I think not purchasing items from a Christian-owned business just because they are visibly Christian is at the same level of the people who protest businesses for not being “Christian” enough.
Long story short: As long as the product is good, I don’t care what a business prints on their packaging.
Christians would doubtless see no issue here, yet imagine what would happen if they opened a product to find a quotation from Islamic scripture. Outrage on the evening news, most certainly, or I’ll eat my hat.
At least with In-N-Out they are just book/chapter/verse, very small, and usually hidden away (the one on the cups is on the inside rim of the bottom of the cup, for instance). So to get a preachy feeling from it (at least for me) you would have to find it first, then know what it is, then take the initiative to find the verse mentioned yourself to actually get any real religiosity from it.
The eggs would get me mildly annoyed for a few seconds and maybe prompt me to ask a friend “that’s a bit annoying isn’t it?” I can’t say I would be able to even muster that for In-N-Out
A for wether you should stop buying from them, I would say no. I don’t care what religion the people I get my food from practice as long a it’s not one who’s beliefs would lead to the food being tainted in some way (I can’t think of any off of the top of my head. Maybe a cult that wants EVERYONE to join them when the comet comes,) As long a the message isn’t meant to be offensive and isn’t an attack, I don’t have a problem with it any more than I would have a problem with “have a nice day” (I’ll, decide what kind of day I have, thank you!).
If I knew ahead of time I would not make the purchase and shop elsewhere even if I had to pay more for the same product. My actions would probably just be an ineffective miniscule drop in a very big ocean but I will not contribute to the spread of religion. Not if I can help it.
W.
I couldn’t disagree more, Hannah. Yes, they’re privately owned companies, and the owners are using them as vehicles for an ideology to which I am opposed. It’s a no-brainer that they’re funneling profits toward the same -isms. If they’re putting their businesses into play as pawns in the culture war, I’m going to react accordingly. I used to love In-N-Out, but they don’t get a dime from me. I don’t require atheistic ideological purity from the concerns I patronize, but I prefer not to fund and arm my enemy once they’ve identified themselves as such. And yes, this complicates my life considerably. I call it worth the effort.
I’ve always found it kind of ironic that Forever 21 puts bible verses on their bags, when much of their clothing encourages, shall we say, the Mary Magdalene look. If they walked the walk, they’d be selling baggy jeans and oversized tops. But hey, profit is at stake. As a knitter and general craftsperson, I patronize local yarn stores and Michael’s rather than Hobby Lobby for this very reason.
I agree with A Portlander, private or not, if they are going to publicly identify themselves as a Christian organization, or a business that supports Christian agendas and world views, then they are fair game for criticism and boycotts. If the same company put Islamic slogans on their products Christians would be outraged. Delusional beliefs in magic sky daddies need to be kept at home, not brought out in public. When they are, they deserve a sound thrashing in the public square.
This supplier of eggs is telling you that it’s not enough that their product is fresh, good, and cheap… but you have to take a helping of proselytizing with it. They are also saying that they are so deluded that they think you should be force fed scriptures. It’s not enough to just say ‘hey, every day is a good one, enjoy this one’ – no, they have to quote the Bible. You should be wondering exactly what OTHER delusional thinking goes on where these eggs are grown and packaged!!!
Are they treating the eggs for diseases with prayer? Have they been sprinkled with holy water? Do they spend any of their profits on support of whackjobs that want to teach ID in the science classroom?
If they had kept it to themselves, it wouldn’t be an issue… but they didn’t, so now it is an issue at their insistence. Boycott them. There are plenty of other places to get eggs.
Well, I love me some Chik-fil-a. And deal with the not getting it on sunday and other crap. However, I always get take a away, I don’t have to listen to the ‘christian’ music.
I wouldn’t buy it if I saw it and if I’m bored, I’d send them a polite letter explain why I do not buy products that are biased towards on specific world view, because it is disrespectful to the diversity of the customers.
It’s up to them if they want me in their market-share.
There are no Christian eggs. There are no Christian chickens. But there are Christian people that sell eggs. The question should be, “would you buy eggs from a Christian”
I want eggquality. Where are the Muslim eggs!!
One question– are these “Christian eggs” coming from cage free chickens?
I don’t think this is accurate. I have no problem buying things from people who are religious, but I avoid buying things from people who incorporate their religion into what they’re selling. So yeah, I would buy eggs from a Christian, but I probably wouldn’t buy eggs from a Christian who advertised their religion with their eggs.
I just checked my eggs and they also have that quote!
Damn you, Aldi’s! D:
I once bought a carton of eggs that had one of those christian fish symbols on it (didn’t even notice it until I got home). Personally, I thought it was funny because it seemed so random. I don’t worry much about stuff like this. It isn’t hurting anyone.
There’s a regional NC chain that has God Bless America printed on their bags and cups, but holy cow they make make a delicious barbecue sandwich. The little slogan won’t stop me from eating the sandwich any more than In God We Trust keeps me from spending cash.
Over in the Mall near where I live is a Chick-A-Fil which proudly closes on Sundays, as it is an openly Christian company. — I don’t have a problem eating there — though nor have I seen Christian Proselytizing in their food services.
I believe all Chick-A-Fil’s close on Sunday. I suppose it’s a business decision for them, though most other stores in that food court do business on both Sunday & Saturday.
On a positive note, I found this on the inside of a bottle of juice I bought.
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc291/Revyloution/IMG_4266.jpg?t=1280283066
Any business that advertises for Jesus is funnelling some of that money into a church of some description. I avoid buying from them because of that … somewhere down the line somebody is making a tax free profit off my purchase. And they’re using those tax free dollars to indoctrinate children.
The question is not about buying from Christians, or Christian ownership at all. It’s about companies branding themselves as Christian or using their business to promote Christian messages. They’re free to do so, but I would boycott them for obvious reasons.
I am more concerned about how the chickens are raised than the creed of farmer who raises them.
Chick-fil-a’s are all closed on Sundays, but what else do you expect from a company founded in rural Georgia? Plus, it’s some delicious chicken, and the cleanest and most maintained fast food restaurant I’ve ever seen.
A lot of Whataburgers also have “God Bless America” on the windows, but once again, it’s a bible belt fast food chain, what do you expect? And the burgers are ohh so delicious.
The arrogance of the folks who play “holier than thou” like this is so obnoxious.
No, it doesn’t break my leg, but if they want to quote scripture with my breakfast eggs, howz about some good old-fashioned god-talk like “kill them all, but keep the virgin girls as booty”?
I don’t think I’d want to buy stuff from these companies, especially the ones that quote the whole bible verse, not just the book and number of the verse. I’d rather not be proselytized with my food. However, I suppose whether I’d buy from places that do this depends on the situation, such as the quality of the products made and sold by places like In-N-Out Burger and similar businesses compared to ones that don’t put bible verses in the things they sell. I can tolerate the hidden ones that don’t quote the words of the verse, but if they go too far with it I’d stop buying from them entirely.
I see both sides. Sometimes, it gets annoying. I finally had about enough of Chik-Fil-A after my last trip there. They had Christian music blaring through the speakers. They gave my daughter a Veggie Tales CD in her kid’s meal where they sing about how God loves everyone, and even the tray had an advertisement for a marriage enrichment website. It was a bit overkill. I don’t have a problem with it sometimes, but when they start proselytizing my child, yeah, I have a BIG problem with that. I don’t care about eggs. But when it’s everything all the time or in places it just doesn’t go at all (like the banner advertising Christian karate I saw the other day), it gets really off-putting. So I definitely think they have the right to do it, but it may lose this particular customer depending on my mood. I feel kind of prejudiced when I say that, but at the same time, I wouldn’t advertise myself as an atheist in a business environment simply because it’s not professional to do so. And if you’re going to be unprofessional, it just makes me wonder about the rest of the product.
This sort of thing isn’t enough to make me boycott a product, but it is enough to take the other option if there is one. They want to beat their chests about what great christians they are, fine. But I prefer people who believe in what they’re selling instead of what they’re told.
I love In-N-Out.
Getting to dump a lot of scripture in the trash at the end of my meal is just an added bonus.
Always found that a bit odd. Clothing, I’m going to wear, wash, and take care of it. But a verse on my burger wrapper is just going to act as a ketchup depository until I dump it in a big bag, where it will rot away with half eaten meals. Scripture and some of the grossest trash around seems an odd mix for a company to take, frankly.
Weird…thought I posted a comment but it seems to have disappeared.
But, like most people I’ve seen, I refuse to give money to a group that proselytizes like this. It’s still them forcing their beliefs upon me.
Also, I have a pretty decent list over at the top of my blog if anyone’s interested in seeing more.
Eh, it would depend on how easily replaceable the product was – Chickfila is one of the few edible food court options when I get stuck at a mall. And I like the fact that their kids meals usually come with PBS books instead of junky plastic toys.
I won’t eat at Carl Jrs, because I know they were a huge financier of Christian anti-abortion groups.
I’ll shop at Costco, but not Sams, because I prefer the way Costco treats their employees.
I’m equally irritated when the tea I’m buying has a Buddhist saying, or new age quote, as I am when something has a Christian saying, but it’s not enough to stop me buying something I enjoy if that’s the only negative I know about the company.
I guess really it comes down to whether I’m made aware that a company financially supports agendas I oppose. But I don’t bother researching every company I patronize. I’m sure if I did there would be very few places I could shop. Fortunately, I’m able to do very little shopping at big corporate stores.
If I know it’s a company owned by a religious organization, I don’t patronize them. However, I can’t avoid the produce whole-seller for almost all the supermarkets in my area.
Of the companies others listed here, I chose not to shop/buy for other reasons before I found out about their fundie background. Hobby Lobby sales people were always rude the two times I was actually in one. Forever 21 clothes look like street walker attire. I got food poisoning at 3 Chick-Fil-A stores in different cities within a year. If a store’s not open on Sundays, I don’t shop there mainly because it’s the one day I enjoy shopping – there’s usually fewer people around.
I find it annoying, but I am sure many Christians may get annoyed when they get a hold of a piece of paper money that was once in my possession that I crossed ‘god’ off of.
I worked for In-N-Out back in the day and it didn’t come across to me as a Christian company. I didn’t even notice the small bible verses on the bottom of the cups or backs of the burger wrappers until I had been working there for a few months. It was never pushed onto me as an employee.
I would definitely refrain from donating money to a religious organization, but I find no problem spending some money on a product from a Christian company, as I am getting something for my money. I have no problem buying a necklace from a Wiccan at a craft fair or purchasing Kosher food at the grocery store.
I would hope if I offered a good product, at a good price, that the fact I am an Atheist wouldn’t keep business away. Whether I was putting little red “A’s” on my product or not.
I have never been in a Chik-fil-a. They play religious music? There is one near here. Now I want to see if they are doing it. If they are, the chicken better be real good to get me back.
Is Aldi’s a Christian company, or do they just buy some of their eggs from a Christian supplier? I had never heard of the chain before I started watching the Duggars on TLC, and they shop there almost exclusively. That makes me think maybe the whole store has fundamentalist connections?
I’ve never found stealth religious phrases on any merchandise I’ve purchased. However, I have come across what appears to be Christian bread, though I can’t figure out if there’s anything religious about the company beyond the name.
Sorry, I have to link..(I am a member here)
info on eggs and egg “production”- very relevant to topic if you assume egg production- even “Christian” egg production is humane.
http://www.cok.net/camp/inv/egg.php
http://www.eggindustry.com/
It annoys me the same way a famous local restaurant annoys me with it’s outspoken support for a particular political party. I avoid that restaurant because when I go to a sandwich shop, I want a sandwich, not campaign propaganda. Similarly, keep your sermons in the church, where they belong, and not in the refrigerator case.
I just love how a few have referred to them as ‘Christian eggs’ after just a single verse. So you place one little quote from the Bible on the packaging and all of a sudden they are imbued with this Christian essence? It’s a miracle.
This whole stink is absolutely hilarious.
Xtian companies are free to put bibble verses on their products. Likewise, I am free to purchase product from a company that does not annoy me with cloying mythological references. Sorry Aldi’s.
One point that I never see brought up–didn’t Jesus destroy the merchant’s tables in the synogogues? Seems he was pissed, as it sullied his “father’s house.” Seems rather antithetical to the bibble and the message of xtianity to use one’s religion to peddle your wares. Let’s be honest: those bibble verses aren’t plastered on merchandise to save souls; they are there to sell product to like minded xtians. I know this pissed me off to the point that I would not buy products from companies like this when I was a believer–oddly, I never hear other believers or atheists bringing up this point.
As for In-n-out–I had to hunt for the bibble verses after someone told me about them. Besides, they put crack in their burgers. I have to keep buying their food.
Incidentally, Gibbon–get real. No company is going to go to the trouble of tagging their product with bibble verses unless they are a xtian company. The “stink” is that people who consider this message contrary to their world view are probably at least obligated to think about the implications of purchasing products from these companies.
The tone of these kinds of things comes across to me as, ‘yes, Virginia, we are on that side of the culture war.’ Thankx for tipping me off to Aldi. I’m embarrassed to have shopped there for so long.
Gibbon is a moron, can’t read, and is delusional. Three comments use the phrase “Christian egg(s)”, two of them in scare quotes and another with a “There are no” preceding it. Was Hemant literally saying the eggs were “Christian” in some way? No, he even uses scare quotes in his question.
Anna,
Aldi isn’t a Christian company, the eggs aren’t produced by them. They may not even be aware of these messages.
It’s an interesting discussion-looking at how many comments on the entire blog are upset about atheists being stereotyped and mistrusted by the public along with calls to be more “out” as atheists, it’s interesting that the same sort of quick judgment happens with this “out” Christian egg producer. People might question the good faith of our request that they be more open to us (pun intended).
We don’t know why they print verses on the egg box-they may have mistaken a series of coincidences and the natural outworkings of networking and reciprocity for “evidence” that god is “blessing” them and felt a compulsion to do so. Or they may secretly be owned by Billy Graham.
I have a friend who managed investments until he retired and who was under the impression that “god had blessed him tremendously” when in reality it was church networking, lots of hard work and way above average returns-he simply didn’t think he was that talented and fell back on the god explanation.
If it is a master plan on the part of the egg producer to fund the nest crusade, let’s not support it for sure, but let’s not assume that all displays of Christianity are due to the same motivators.
We wouldn’t see a muslim version of this for the reason one of the above posters noted, they would never print “sacred scripture” on something to be tossed in the trash so casually-a very different mindset to be sure.
If they’re ‘darn cheap’ there’s essentially no chance of that, which is the best reason for boycotting them.
Some people act like the entire planet was built just for them, other’s realise that we’re sharing it.
Are there any business people in this thread?
This proselytizing may not be originating from the egg vendor, but from the egg packaging vendor.
You folks are aware that companies rarely, if ever produce their own packaging, right?
well at least it isnt as bad as the whole biblical messeges on gun sights heh ahh now that was a bit of a booboo knowing me if i bought somthing like those eggs i most likley wouldnt notice hehe
I feel ashamed for our in-germany-founded supermarket company..
Monster: It’s a pretty poor vendor who doesn’t monitor what their packaging producer puts on their packaging.
Or to put it another way:
It doesn’t matter who made the packaging, it’s obviously what the vendor wants on their packaging. You should talk to some business people to learn about how that works.
I think buying products with discreetly featured Bible verses is much less objectionable than say, buying products from companies known to use child-labor or slave wages, which covers a fair proportion of things made in China, much of the coffee and chocolate we consume, many of the fruits and vegetables etc.
I wouldn’t buy a product with visible verses saying this like “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God” just out of pure irritation. However if I’m going to start making moral stands on my grocery shopping, I’d probably start elsewhere.
I’ve purchased items from Sierra Trading Post for years. Yes, it annoys me that he publishes a Bible verse on the order form, but I figure that’s his own idiocy; it doesn’t detract from the products the company sells. Here’s his explanation: http://www.sierratradingpost.com/lp2/CompanyPhilosophy.html
Would you buy toilet paper with Images of Jesus’ face on each sheet?
Belgium here (a little closer to Aldi’s home country, Germany).
I just went to the fridge to check on the egg carton: no bible verse.
Over here, Aldi is known for its deep discount prices. There isn’t a lot of information about the owners (they don’t talk to the press). Personally, I think they don’t care about imprinted bible verses, as long as the price is right.
It could be an executive in the USA who specifically selected the supplier.
“one egg in some unknown carton contains a plastic Jesus inside.”
Cool. Maybe a chocolate Kinder Surprise “egg” with a baby Jesus?…chocolate…baby…delicious.
Wikipedia: “Seasonal eggs are introduced around the holidays, such as the limited-edition creche collections (featuring such characters as the three kings, baby Jesus, and assorted barnyard animals) found around Christmas, and the huge ones found at Easter (extremely popular in Italy).”
I don’t believe in or accept proselytism, so I try my best to not patronize businesses which double as religious propaganda outfits. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t patronize my business if I had a big sign saying “ALL BELIEVERS ARE BIG FAT IDIOTS” above my name plate.
Business and Religion shouldn’t mix, just like Politics and Religion. Maybe Religion shouldn’t mix with anything, just to be on the same side!
@The Godless Monster: Nevertheless, if the packaging manufacturer had inserted the Bible quote without their customer’s consent, it’s highly unlikely that the quote would have remained; that or the packaging manufacturer wouldn’t stay long in business.
It’s also possibly that no-one at Aldi or their suppliers actually believes this stuff, it’s possible that they just think it’s good marketing in the US. Just like McDonalds not serving beef in India – not borne out of a religious conviction of their own, but a practical consideration of giving the customer what (most of them) want.
@Aj: “Aldi isn’t a Christian company, the eggs aren’t produced by them. They may not even be aware of these messages.”
That’s not exactly right. The two Albrecht brothers who founded Aldi (btw: Theo Albrecht, the younger brother died last Saturday, it’s covered in German news just today) are/were devout Catholics. So that kind of makes sense.
Having been to (German) Aldi dozens and dozens of times, I’ve never seen any religious allusions anywhere in the shops, though.
I usually toss the carton and put my eggs in a little plastic dealie – those cartons don’t protect the eggs enough.
Like many others here, I would look for another brand. In the first place, I feel it’s not business-like to be putting bible verses on egg cartons (or to be mixing religion and business in any way), and secondly, I simply wouldn’t want to have to have a little dig of annoyance every time I opened up the egg carton.
@ Sakura – Subway?! Tell me it’s not so!
A private company is free to sell its products in any packaging that it chooses (assuming such packaging is not in some way dangerous). Private citizens are free to choose what they want to buy, and to base those decisions on packaging if they so choose. So what’s the issue here again?
If they run the contest to find the plastic jesus inside the egg at least someone will get to yell ‘I’ve found jesus!’ and actually mean it for a change.
The presented dichotomy is too simple. Evangelical messages on a product wrapper aren’t quite enough to make me boycott an enterprise. However, if I know that a company is associated with religious causes dedicated to denying civil rights to another demographic, no way they’re seeing a dime from me.
For instance, I have a college friend that recently signed a three book deal with a Christian publisher that has ties to James Dobson and Focus on the Family. She’s a wonderful person and a great writer, but no way am I going to buy any of those books.
In a free market, capitalistic style economy that we live in within the United States, we “vote” for products with our dollars. So, when you knowingly purchase products such as these, you are tacitly implying that you support the company AND the message.
It may be easier to look at it from another standpoint: if there were pro-Scientology messages on the product would you still willingly purchase said product? What if it had a small swastika? I know, I know, the swastika is extreme, but the point remains the same. Would you support an ideology you strongly disagree with by purchasing the product?
So, we’re not supposed to do business with christians now? Or maybe it’s not that bad, people just won’t do business with those uppity christians that don’t keep their faith inside their home where we can’t be disturbed by it?
Where have I heard that before? I don’t see any difference between the comments here and christians who call for boycotts of Disney (and now Home Depot) for supporting gay rights causes.
Buying eggs with a bible verse printed on it is not the same as giving money to some faith based charity or christian activist group.
If anyone wants to they can go ahead, I just hope they see the irony.
@ plutosdad
So, let’s extend this a bit more. Do you feel that the current international ban on “Blood Diamonds” is worthwhile? Again, this falls on the extreme end of the spectrum and the analogy isn’t exact, but let’s see how far ethics can take us.
“It’s not a big deal, but it’s a little off-putting when you find out your sandwich and sweater are made of Jesus.”That statement really caught my attention! Wow.
plutosdad,
I see these type of comments a lot on here lately. You see no difference in an atheist being against quoting Bible verses on products and a Christian being against support for gay rights? No difference in morality at all, a moral equivalence in the justification of their views, the harm of their views, and implications on equality of rights of their views. Apparently your morality is based on equal treatment of food products regardless of their religious content. I’m sorry if I give a shit about people and the truth.
I’m concerned with buying meat that hasn’t been abused, which is why I will now only buy local eggs.
Here’s a fun quote from Joel Salatin, who speaks for the “free-range” egg lobby: “People have a soul; animals don’t. Unlike us, animals are not created in God’s image.”
And that is his justification for tossing live chicks into the meat grinder. Christianity, folks. The religion of love.
onehandclapping
no the proper analogy would be “I won’t do business with anyone who wears any type of diamond” That is how ridiculous it is.
Seriously not doing business with christians who don’t “keep their christianity in the closet”?
to not buy eggs someone wrote a bible phrase on is no different than the wedding photographer that won’t do gay weddings. And makes as much sense, and is just a morally repugnant.
Aj of course I feel much much more outrage at the person who is against gay rights. In fact I wouldn’t say I feel anger at the comments here, but more like a “wtf?” feeling.
So personally, yes the degree is far different. But my personal feelings do not dictate right and wrong. I am just trying to remove the emotion an analyze what people are really proposing here.
Depends. In almost all cases, I’d pick something without the bit of scripture or buybull reference but there are cases now where I’d make an exception unless I know of a company’s further taking action to fight religious freedom.
But these days, I’m going rapidly crippled and my daughter’s car died. This narrows my options. I put on her to a great extent to fetch for me but where I can be independent, I stubbornly will. Plus I want to do want I can to ease the burden of her being squeezed between a handicapped mother and a small son.
We get Schwan’s here who deliver high-quality frozen foods. I’ve never seen anything untoward and am just using them as an example. I would complain if they started putting buybull verses on packaging, in their catalogs or on their web page but unless it reached the sickening point (like covering everything) I’d probably continue using them just to have food delivered. (No local grocery stores do so and Schwan’s food is good.)
I also do a great deal of catalog/on-line shopping. Amazon is the largest, of course, especially since I’m now also taking advantage of their grocery section to have dry goods and household products delivered. This will increase when I retire, hopefully shortly.
Amazon, of course, doesn’t disgust me with such but I do also shop some mail order companies who don’t precisely do that but do sell an inordiant amount of Christian product. I blow it off. Because I need and want their service. They don’t push me to buy their Christian products and I figure they’re just offering something that would appeal to a majority of American shoppers. They are a business, after all, and I really don’t care if they are Christian.
However, I’d stop doing business with them if I found out that they donated a percentage of their profits (I am not going to worry about what individual employees do; that’s not the company) to organizations that lobbied to make Christianity law.
If they give part of their profit to fight gay marriage or abortion, they ain’t getting my dime to do it with. Even with the trouble I’m having physically or loved their product, I’d look for another alternative then.
@ plutosdad
You did not answer my question, but I admit I am not surprised. I gather from your responses that boycotting a product/service/whatever is beneath contempt as far as you are concerned. Well that’s how the market works, like it or not. If you don’t like a product no matter the reason it’s your right to not purchase it as a form of protest. Vote with your dollars. Would you like examples? Watch “Milk” and tell me what they did regarding boycotting businesses was morally repugnant.
I give In-N-Out a pass for being not only discreet and not in your face, but not being overly preachy about their practice.
The egg thing pushes it more, but I would just buy another brand of eggs if it bothered me enough.
wha…?
I would not buy that product, or any other product from said company. I would send emails and letters to the store/supplier explaining why. I refuse to do anything that even remotely supports any religion. I’d probably throw the eggs at the store too….lol.
plutosdad,
I have no idea where you’re coming from. You don’t think promoting the Bible as the source of truth and morals is morally repugnant? You think being against that is morally equivalent to being against gay rights? It’s bullshit to suggest others are just using their emotions and personnel feelings because you have some fucked up “morality”. I don’t really care to find out what dictates what you consider right and wrong if boycotts are wrong, and promoting the Bible is right.
Mixing business with religion or politics seems like a bad idea. What’s next? Pro-choice chicken? Anti-abortion apples? Republican ravioli? Libertarian linguine?
I wouldn’t buy eggs from a company that proselytizes because I don’t want to support religion. While I don’t care what the owners of the company do in their private lives, I don’t agree with pushing their views on others through their products.
@ABinMN – It’s not the entire chain of Subway, just franchise’s who choose to take a religious approach is all.
According to Sally Thomas, the religious eggs have been discontinued. That was over a year ago. Maybe they’ve been recontinued.
I always assumed part of the notably stingy business model of Aldi was that all merchandise can be considered ‘store brand,’ if that makes a difference.
I thought the ‘b-quote’ button in the comment form was for Bible quotes. Apparently it’s ‘blockquote.’
The implications of buying a product from a company that is owned and run by Christians? (Rhetorical) Can you honestly tell me that every company that you purchase goods from is not owned or run by people who subscribe to the Christian religion, or any other religion for that matter?
Aj, apparently sarcasm doesn’t work very well in writing.
By the way, am I the only one that sees this whole stink as having stark similarities to the American Family Association call for boycotts of companies that treat homosexuals like all other humans?
Again, this stink still has me in hysterics.
I’ve always been a little torn on this subject. The religious propaganda at places I patronize do annoy me, but I find it equally annoying when religious groups boycott for the same reasons. Everyone here makes great cases pro and con boycotting.
Laura’s experience with Chick-fil-A definitely crosses the proselytization line. I suppose it really comes down to the overall enjoyment of the product/service/experience. The more preachy my experience is, the less likely I will be to enjoy myself. The nastier the restroom is, the less likely I will be to enjoy myself. I think I will let this be the deciding factor.
IMO, there’s a difference between a company owned by Christians and a company owned by Christians who are using their services/products to promote Christianity. I have no problem with the former, but I do not care to support the latter. I prefer to give my hard-earned money to companies that refrain from pushing what I see as an illogical and immoral worldview on their customers.
This is easy to solve:
http://urbanchickens.org/
I’ll bet the chickens weren’t rejoicing when they got crammed into cages too small to spread their wings and had their beak-tips removed with hot pliers.
Meh, there’s no issue here. It’s a privately owned company that produces the eggs. They can put swastikas on them for all I care if the product is good. They have every right to do it.
My mom shops at Aldi, so I’ve seen this before. When I first saw this, my friend and I found it amusing and proceeded to draw little angels on the eggs since they were “holy.” We also drew one egg with Dumbledore on it. He looked pretty smug.
There are many people who would consider the Bible, and certainly Psalms, to simply be historical literature. If everyone is atheist, why all the hullabaloo? Why not simply view this verse as a sentence from a writing from an uninformed, uneducated, backwards time in the history of civilization (just like Persian, Greek, and Roman mythology). There is no stated intent on the carton so why is everyone jumping to conclusions? With no stated intent you come to your own conclusions. If you conclude that they are trying to be evangelistic about it I think you are strangely misguided.
All this fuss over an Old Testament Scripture passage on a carton of eggs!
It just shows how intolerant the self-righteous hypocrites on the left are.
Go ahead and pay the inflated prices at a unionized grocery store. But then again, isn’t this really what this is about? Union vs. Non-Union?