Kelloggs drops Michael Phelps sponsorship over bong hit photo

Great to find this! I already started notice of a need to boycott Kellog on another site. I almost killed myself with Jim Beam before I quit drinking 7 years ago. But 6 years ago, my house was raided for growing my own pot. However, contrary to my horrible experience with alcohol, my pot smoking never hurt me but solely for the raid on my house and the 100% invasion of my privacy. That is, the detriment from pot was strictly fabricated by the powers-that-be and that was for reasons to do with their own greed and amorality. Some narcissistic, selfish, money-hungry vapid soulless cretin doesn't care if I'm persecuted as long as his alcohol or manufactured pharaceutical has the greatest amount of market share that he can manage to claw into his hoard.
Anyhow, I've created a list of Kellog products so as not to leave any doubt about what we should all refrain from buying:
• All-Bran® Products
• Apple Jacks® Cereal
• Austin® Cookies and Crackers
• Carr’s® Products
• Cheez-It® Crackers
• Chips Deluxe® Cookies
• Club® Crackers
• Crunchmania™ Products
• Eggo® Products
• EL Fudge® Sandwich Cookies
• Famous Amos® Cookies
• Fruit Flavored Rolls
• Fudge Shoppe® Cookies
• Gripz®
• Hydrox® Cookies
• Jack’s® Cookies
• Jackson’s® Cookies
• Keebler® Cookies and Crackers
• Keebler® Grahams Crackers
• Kellogg’s® Cereals and Snacks
• Kellogg’s™ Cereal Straws
• Kellogg’s™ Cocoa Krispies® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Corn Flake Crumbs
• Kellogg’s® Corn Flakes Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Corn Pops® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Cracklin’ Oat Bran® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Crispix® Cereal
• Kellogg’s™ Crunchy Nut™ Granola Bars
• Kellogg’s® Froot Loops® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Frosted Flakes® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Honey Smacks® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Keebler Cookie Crunch™ Cereal
• Kellogg’s™ Live Bright™ Brain Health Bars
• Kellogg’s® Low Fat Granola
• Kellogg’s® Mini-Wheats® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Mueslix® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Nutri-Grain® Products
• Kellogg’s® Product 19® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Raisin Bran® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Raisin Bran Crunch® Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Smart Start® Cereal
• Kellogg’s™ Smorz™ Cereal
• Kellogg’s® Special K® Products
• Kellogg’s® Stuffing Mix
• Kellogg’s® Yogos® Snacks
• Krispy® Saltine Crackers
• Morningstar Farms® Veggie Foods
• Morningstar Farms® Natural and Organic Veggie Foods
• Murray® Cookies
• Murray® Sugar Free Cookies
• Pop-Tarts® Toaster Pastries
• Ready Crust® Pie Crusts
• Rice Krispies® Cereal and Treats
• Sandies® Cookies
• Scooby-Doo!® Crackers
• Soft Batch® Cookies
• Themed Snacks
• Toasteds® Crackers
• Town House® Crackers
• Vienna Cremes® Sandwich Cookies
• Vienna Fingers® Cookies
• Wheatables® Crackers
• Worthington® Loma Linda® Veggie Foods
• Worthington® Veggie Foods
• Zesta® Crackers

Note that these aren't the totality of the products as some of these have many different variations of flavors.
As well, keep in mind that much of this stuff is pure crap so your overall physiological health may benefit from this commendable boycott.

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Call as well I did!

press one to comment about Phelps, WOW they must be feeling our wrath if they had gave us our own digit!

Some complete bull shit!!

If You use the link provided by cabinettags to send a message, click on "Great Ideas" on the list @ the left side of the page ;-)

Crap from up the creek, battle on. This ozzie thinks yur awesome, Michael, oi oi oi ...

I'm sending an e-mail as soon as I "POST" this comment, & starting My boycott immediatly, I can always buy My raisins seperately & add THREE scoops if I want !!!

No more frosted flakes for me... this morning I ate pancakes.

Only thing my cereal should say is "Snap, Crackle, and/or Pop", when it starts voicing a social and/or political opinion then it's time to get a new cereal.

Boycott Kelloggs. Protest pot prohibition.

Yet they will use tainted peanut butter in their crackers....

good their cereal sucks anyway.

I'm tired of hearing about this. If anyone is disappointing in Phelps it's their own problem for holding him to such a high standard.

Boycott! screw Kellogg~

bad move Kelloggs...we drop you!

I will NOT be buying kelloggs products any longer.

It is disgusting that they immediatly jump on the Drug War band wagon.

It has been far to long we have listened to the vile lies and propaganda.
For decades we have been feed lies in the name of the "drug war" and what do we have to show for it.

Trillions in debt, milions of non violent users in prison, drugs are on every corner of every city and criminals are making large profits and paying NO TAXES.

We have to be honest about drugs, not all drugs are the same.

You cant just lump everything together and call them all DANGEROUS.

Doing this causes confussion and distrust.

What about the teen who tries marijuana and sees it is not dangerous, Then he thinks back to the lies he was told and wonders if they lied about heroin and cocaine as well.

Cannabis is not the same as other drugs.
It should not be lumped into the same category.

It is Amazinly non-toxic, Much safer than alcohol or tobacco, has NEVER casued a single recorded death in the history of mankind, and is NOT physically addictive like the narcotic drugs it is lumped together with .

Cannabis is NOT a gateway drug, PROHIBITION is the gateway.

Dealers will sell what every drug they have in stock and they are incredible salesmen.

They don't check ID for age either.

Now, you tell me the drug war is working!!!!!
When its easier for a 12 year old to by heroin than it is to buy a pack of cigarettes or beer.

I don't eat Kellogg's anyway.

i'm absolutely dumbfounded. who do they think this offends again? maybe i'm getting too old to understand this particular brand of crap. but i let them have a piece of my mind. eff 'em. we don't eat kellogg's anyway! we eat the off-brands! so hah on you kellogg's!

To hell with Kellogs... I don't eat that nasty stuff anyway.

I think everyone needs to let them know how dumb of a decision they just made, but over anything I don't think Phelps should even worry about getting a weak sponsor like that back.

They were going to drop him anyway, lets get real. This was just an excuse to do it. The olympics are over, the hype is done.... but what do they have now? Outdated marketing in a failing economy...

Yeah, snap crackle pop is the same sound the rubble makes as your company falls.

Contact Kellogg's here:
http://www2.kelloggs.com/ContactUs.aspx

A list of their products can be found here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg_Company

I will NEVER buy anything from Kellog's for the rest of my life until I hear an apology for not supporting Mr. Phelps who should be heralded as a champion for his Olympic victories and a model for those who idolize the Good of the world and not Evil!

LET THE BOYCOTT BEGIN!!!

Kelloggs I hope you lose HUGE PROFITS!

Here's what I sent them..

As one of many who see your sugary cereals as GRRRRRREAT for satisfying the "munchies" (although I'm not so sure it's the healthiest thing for younger children to be eating)
I wonder if you realize how mainstream smoking a bit of herb is in the US? This vilification of a celebrity who is caught in the act is ridiculous. Rather than supporting this insane marijuana prohibition..corporations like Kelloggs should stay neutral or stand against it. You've lost me as a customer.

There's no email info on their main website..
just FAQ nonsense
This seems the place to comment..
http://www2.kelloggs.com/greatideas/default.aspx
It's a site for sharing your "Ideas"
You have to give all your info unfortunately.. so might end up getting Kellogg's Junk Mail?

Eat pot don't smoke it... It's the healthier way to consume it... Put it on your Cheerios... (not your Corn Flakes)... Cook it up in your spaghetti suace... It's got FIBER...

Right ON FUCK Kellogs and Phelps for backing down to those money whores... I personally am tired of his commercials so he swims fast so does a fish. About the only thing i do like about the guy is that hes a Stoner.
C'mon Phelps how long you gonna let these suits pull your strings.

JOIN the NORML cause and be prove that you can be a pothead and still be a responsible and productive human being.

So fuck You NANCY REAGAN

I will boycott Kellogs. My cereal's vocabulary should be limited to "snap, crackle, pop". My cereal should not dictate morality or pass judgment on me. F U cereal, you think you're better than me!?

Already Phelps has publicly denounced his own behavior and has apologized... too bad. I don't think a smoking habit is good for an athlete but standing up for his own beliefs would have been great for his career and influence. Others would follow and this would quicken what we all know is inevitable during Obama's second term.

What do you expect from a company founded by a stark raving lunatic?

kelloggs hates marijuana. (they only promote the use of special K)

maybe i'm the only one that is happy?.. i didn't read everyone's response. as a role model for serious kids in the swim world and even those who dream of simply having one olympic medal, i don't think smoking pot is the greatest example. if he weren't punished, what would make him want to change his behavior? it would be different if he weren't in the spotlight. you can all rant and rave about how pot is the coolest thing ever, but really.... it's not.

Why? He didn't do anything wrong

http://current.com/items/89790711/kelloggs_holding_back_peanut_butter_crackers.h...

Don’t be swayed. This goes much further than Michael Phelps. Current.com has become a beacon of information. Jack Herer has been posting a treasure trove of facts here at current, filling the pages with facts about cannabis/hemp. Michael Phelps is a distraction.

Boycotting Kelloggs is one avenue, but don’t loose sight of what enabled Michael Phelps to loose his sponsorship. The cannabis/hemp laws are the real problem. If any changes are going to happen, it will be with facts.

The world is in terrible shape, financially and environmentally. Cannabis/hemp deserves a seat at the table of recovery. Jack Herer daily posts things that would change if cannabis/hemp were not classified the way it is. Richard Nixon changed the classification of cannabis with the stroke of a pen. Barack Obama could change the classification with the stroke of a pen also. Facts are on our side.

Don’t think the struggle will be easy. Mainstream media controls the spin. They “spin” for corporate America. Cannabis/hemp has many uses and environmental friendly, it must scare the heck out of them. A plant generating new industry in America. Cannabis/hemp has history, documentation to back up. Before the Internet, facts could be removed for public view, but today is different. Put your efforts into educating others about the plant “cannabis/hemp” and let them know they were misled. Ordinary Americans were denied facts and led to believe distorted facts were truth. Distorted facts are not the truth. Real facts lead to real truth. The truth should win over spin.

And I will not buy anymore Kellogg products.

As a pot partaker I'm offended by Kelloggs dropping of Phelps and just threw out a box of Corn Flakes, a cereal I've been eating for over 30 years! I'm switching to General Mills products as well.He doesn't represent the " image of Kelloggs" what is this 1956? A huge mistake people! You've irred the pot community...a community that has munched down on your products after many a blaze session. Boooooo!

The story so far, "lets reward a piece of shit, backstabbing friend (camera man) and punish a true hero". The media has truly sickened me on this one.

Mark one point for the bad guys.

another sponsor bites the dust!!!

The smart thing to do now is get Frito Lay to pick him up.

So let's get this straight;

Kellogg's is a corporations that produces cereal. By looking at the ingredients listed on their products, it's evident that Kellogg's uses cheap, artificial chemicals (to profit that much more) to produce their cereal.

Michael Phelps was pictured smoking Cannabis, the most natural plant that is smoked today. Not only that, but it's by far the healthiest plant for humans to consume.

So this artificial cereal producing corporation decided to not sponsor one of the greatest athletes of all time because he smoked the healthiest plant in the world?

Interesting.

I will join in the boycott! Kelloggs, this was a petty and stupid move.

As is my wont, I was tooling around the internet and came across this at Yahoo. I think it's pertinent. I don't know if Kellogg is the only one that's cut Michael lose, but there are other biggie's that haven't.

Take note Kellogg. You're in the minority.

Yahoo quoted:
The Battle Creek, Mich.-based company said Thursday that Phelps’s behavior— caught on camera and published Sunday in the British tabloid News of the World— is “not consistent with the image of Kellogg.”

The company put Phelps on boxes of its Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes.

The 23-year-old swimmer, who won eight gold medals in Beijing, has kept the backing of many sponsors since the photo surfaced from a November house party at the University of South Carolina.

Among those standing by him, even if they don’t condone his behavior, are Visa Inc., Speedo, luxury Swiss watchmaker Omega and sports beverage PureSport’s maker Human Performance Labs.

Phelps apologized for his “regrettable” behavior and “bad judgment” after the photo appeared.

Phelps’s agent was not immediately available to comment.

Kellogg had contracts with Phelps and other Olympic athletes to support its association with the U.S. Olympic team. The company said in a statement that it won’t renew its contract with Phelps, which expires at the end of February.

Kellogg would not disclose the value of its deal with Phelps.

Now I expect it's going to be that Visa doesn't sell kids cereal. That's a valid point. But if Kellogg wasn't making a big deal out of it; would it be a big deal?

Kellogg can sponsor whomever they like, or no. But by taking this stance they've put a label on Michael and he doesn't rate it. If they won't drop the thing, least they could do is issue an apology.

RIP kellogs...

I regret that Phelps wants to do weed. I regret that Kellogg's cannot accept this. I wish the whole episode would just blow away.

For that matter, I don't think that kids should be steered into doing something so monomaniacal as practicing 8 hours a day. That's kid abuse.

LATE kellogs!

This pot agenda is disgusting.

Pot may smell sweet, but the people who smoke it are not.

Self indulgent persons.

There are more news things that happen around the world and all you people who promote this stuff care about is this stuff....obsessive.

As for Micheal Phelps the problem is not what he did but who he hangs out with. Whatever idiot took the picture should be unfriended. He did it to ruin Phelps and get money in the process.

I shall boycott Kellogg.

yeah, it's kind of ironic given that kellogg's cereal is probably more of a public health menace than weed. it's certainly more physically addictive.

Well I thought this guy was alright till I seen he is advertising on that suggary sht they give to children. Way to blow your high profile pot imagine Phelps now you suck when you were so cool for blowing it in peoples face at first :D

Oh, man! But I love Frosted Flakes. I guess I can do without for a while. I always thought cereal was the ultimate stoner food though. You can eat and drink at the same time. It's perfect.

Boycott!

Wait, what grand image does Kellogg's have that they need to defend? A talking tiger? Hell, the only time that talking tiger commercial even makes sense is when I am high. Kellogg's shouldn't be dropping Phelp's, they should be thanking him. You know how many more people are going to think it's ok to smoke weed now because of him? And lets face it, anyone could polish off a box of frosted flakes in a single sit after a little alone time with mary-jane. And then after words still apparently have the lung power to go and win 8 gold medals.

kellogg's would be nothing without the stoner demographic.

The saddest thing is that the dialogue in this country never seriously allows for people who defend the free use of marijuana.

People who propose it are labeled hippies or are not taken seriously. And no one has the balls to go out and defend Phelps. No one stood up and said, "You know it's not that bad."

I mean come on, he was smoking pot. Pot has never hurt one single person in the world if you dont factor in the war on drugs casualties. I bet not even Kellogs can say that about its products.

I cant believe that they are treating Phelps like this. After all the medals that man won in the name of his country, this is how they repay him?

Shame on them...

Phelps needs to contact RooR waterpipe company...it was clearly their bong in the pic. I bet they will pay fat for the endorsement!

I will now boycott Kelloggs.. not that I ever ate their cereal anyways. Its all about Cocoa Puffs!

You could turn it into a political movement while you're at it.

Yeah well maybe all the pot smokers will drop Kelloggs and you know how much pot smokers love to eat cereal.

He had to know this would happen. Whether or not I agree that it should be legallized, weed IS ILLEGAL and he cannot be used as a role model on kids foods anymore. Now if it's legallized...well that's another day...

Complete and utter bullshit! I'm not sure what products other than cereal that Kellogg's makes but I'll be checking and avaoiding any of them.

I am switching to General Mills cereals for munchie foods! Kelloggs already sucked anyway!

Whoa a whole 3 months suspension, man am I gonna miss seeing him in swim competitions on ESPN..... oh wait nevermind.

BOYCOTT KELLOGS!

things are starting to mount against phelps . US swimming just suspended him for 3 months

Excellent. Pot smokers really SHOULD take this event and use it to promote our cause. There is NOTHING WRONG with smoking weed, let the truth be known! I'm boycotting AND writing a letter, damn it! (Well, an email at least!)

Im on board. Kellogs sucks anyway.

calling all stoners, boycott kelloggs!