So we have this evil law in Iowa that helps large corporations abuse farm animals and it needs to be rescinded, but what to do? It’s great to say “Boycott Iowa!” but what does that mean? Cancel your long awaited Iowa vacation? I don’t think many of us were planning on vacationing in Iowa. So what can we do? Well, we can stop buying products that are produced in Iowa, and we can let the companies that produce these products know that we aren’t going to be contributing to the torture of farm animals and the Iowa government’s attempts to hide it.
So what are these products? Surprisingly there are many well known brands that are easy to avoid buying:
Aunt Jemima
Banquet
Beefsteak Bread
Betty Crocker
Big G cereals
Bisquick
Bugles
Cap’n Crunch
Cascadian Farm
Cheerios
Chef Boyardee
Chex
Chex Snack Mix
Chi-Chi’s Salsa
Chicken Helper
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Crunch ‘n Munch
David Sunflower Seeds
Diablitos Underwood
Dinty Moore
Fiber One
Fleischmann’s
Frescarini
Fruit Snacks
Gardetto’s
Gatorade
General Mills – Cereal- Cheerios, chex, toal, cocoa puffs ets.
Gold Medal
Good Earth
Green Giant
Gulden’s – Mustard
Häagen-Dazs
Hamburger Helper
Healthy Choice
Hebrew National
Heinz Tomato Ketchup
Herb-ox Bouillon Packets
Hormel
Hostess
House of Tsang
Hunt’s
Jiffy Pop Popcorn
Jus-Rol
Kid Cuisine
Kix
Knack & Back
Knott’s Berry Farm
Kretschmer Wheat Germ
La Choy
La Lechara
La Salteña
Lärabar
Latina
Libby’s
Lucky Charms
Macaroni Grill
Manwich
Marie Callender’s
Mary Kitchen
Monsters
Mother’s Oat Bran
Mountain High
Mrs. Richardson’s
Muir Glen
Nature Valley
Old El Paso
Orville Redenbacher’s
Pam Cooking Spray
Patak’s Curry
Peloponnese Kalamata Olives
PEMMICAN BEEF JERKY
Peter Pan Peanut Butter
Pillsbury
Pillsbury Atta
Polaner All Fruit
Progresso
Quaker – Quaker Oats
Raisin Nut Bran
Reddi Wip
Rice A Roni Pasta Roni
Rotel
Slim Jim
Suddenly Pasta Salad
Swiss Miss
Total
Total Whole Grain
Totino’s / Jeno’s
Trix
Tuna Helper
V.Pearl
Van Camp’s
Wanchai Ferry
Wesson Corn Oil
Wheaties
Wonder Bread
Yoplait
Yoplait France
Monsanto is also based in Iowa and here are some products that use Monsanto seeds:
(Monsanto is evil enough on it’s own without the Iowa connection, watch this if you don’t know:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto
/)
Aunt Jemima
Quaker
Betty Crocker
General Mills
Bisquick
Duncan Hines
Hungry Jack
Jiffy
Ms. Butterworths
Peppridge farms
Campbells
Aurora Foods
Kraft/Phillip Morris
Post cereals
Hershey’s Nestle
Carnation
Holsum
Interstate bakeries
Best foods
Knorr
Kellogs
Nature Valley
Nabisco
Pillsbury
Heinz
Hellmans
Hunts
KC Masterpiece
Frito-lay/Pepsi
Delicious brand cookies
Famous Amos
Keebler/Flowers Industries
Banquet
Green Giant
Healthy Choice
ConAgra
Kid Cuisine
Stouffers
Lean Cuisine
Marie Callenders
Ore-ida
Smart ones
Power Bar Brand
Chef Boyardee
Hormel
Loma Linda
Morningstar
Lipton
Unilever
Uncle Ben’s
Rice-a-roni/Pasta-roni
Tombstone Pizza
Totinos
Orville Redenbacher
Pop Secret
Pringles
Procter and Gamble
Coca Cola
Minute Made
Pepsi
Cadbury/Sweppes
Capri-sun
Cool-aid
Ocean Spray
V-8
Prego Pasta Sauce
Ragu sauce
Non-food:
3M tape
Post Its
I am going to miss the Bisquick!!! So here is more info from Wikipedia on Iowa based companies and industries.
And don’t forget to sign the petitions:
https://www.change.org/petitions/take-the-pledge-boycott-iowa-the-ag-gag-state
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-utahs-ag-gag-bill/
So there you go! Easy enough right? 
Think about it like this, if someone offered to give you one of these products – or all of them – for free, if you let them beat a pig to death with a cane, would you take any of them? If not, why are you buying them?
In the world today YOU ARE WHAT YOU BUY
Thank you for the compilation. Oh God, why do we live in such an evil world??????
It’s an easy fix – just don’t buy their products, problem solved.
Unfortunately, many of those brands are not easy to quit buying. Procter & Gamble, for example. They have their fingers in everything. Wee Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble.
And where does it end? Do I quit visiting friends who buy Procter & Gamble, quit eating out at restaurants that use Procter & Gamble products?
I’ve been involved in many boycotts in the past 30 years, and the only ones that ever worked were for the small, local companies. With a company like P&G that has $82 billion in annual revenue and product distribution worldwide, I think one would be cutting of one’s nose to spite one’s face.
I think a good petition on Facebook or Twitter would be more effective because they can go viral in just hours.
“Do I quit visiting friends who buy Procter & Gamble”
You can visit just don’t eat their food
“quit eating out at restaurants that use Procter & Gamble products?”
Yes. It’s not hard, all you have to do is start cooking
It’s better for you anyway.
There are two petitions here:
https://www.change.org/petitions/take-the-pledge-boycott-iowa-the-ag-gag-state
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-utahs-ag-gag-bill/
And a Facebook group here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Citizens-Against-Ag-Gag-Legislation/146201808805567
Is this OK with you?:
“In 2008, my friends at PETA went undercover at a Greene County factory farm that supplied pigs to Hormel. The group found that workers were beating pigs with metal rods, sexually abusing them with canes, jabbing clothespins into their eyes and more.” Cloris Leachman
http://www.peta.org/mediacenter/news-releases/Cloris-Leachman-Blasts-Iowa-s-Anti-Filming-Bill.aspx
I do not find it hard to quit buying these products, not hard at all.
When I visit friends, though, I might need to wash my hands, probably using P&G soaps. I do most of my own cooking anyways, but to check on where everything comes from and whether or not I agree with it, I’d starve!
Thanks for the links, especially to the facebook group.
Well until your friends educate themselves I’d start carrying hand sanitizer or invite them to your house
There are many things in the world that bother me, but I have to pick and choose my battles. I’m too old to take on Procter & Gamble, much less all of the other ones, but I certainly support those who think they can, and try to.
Just plain “Sick”
thanks for the like…as i’m in the uk i dont recognise any of the brands… good luck with the campaign..we have the rspca who inspect for annimals …and theres a soil association logo for good conditions… love the bird pics….
Thanks
and if you ever come to visit, bring your own food!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/05/cruelty-farm-animals-slaughterhouse
Farm animals ARE abused in the UK. There’s also the RSPCA killing German Shepherds with metal bolts to the brain and Huntington Life Science Corporation. Abuse of animals is a world-wide phenomenon and we all need to work to eliminate in the world.
You should make this article facebookable. I wanted to share it on facebook, but don’t see how that’s possible. Can you make it so? Thanks.
I did it two different ways, see if one of them works for you – and thanks.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dou-dou-birds/358951124118912
There is a Facebook button under the post too – is it not working?
By saying you will never buy any products produced in Iowa, doesn’t that just hurt the people who work for those companies? Wouldn’t it be better to go after the law that’s making this possible?
That is the point. Have you seen the videos taken in the factory farms in Iowa? This is some of what the undercover videos found going on in Iowa:
- Piglets slammed to the floor and leaving them still wriggling to die in a bloodied pile
- beating up of the pigs to death with metal rods
- inserting rods into the sow’s vagina
- Spraying paint into the pig’s eyes and nostrils.”
I can’t in good conscience support those people IN ANY WAY. If I buy their products I am enabling them to abuse the animals, am I not? Iowans elected the man that signed that law and some of their companies are the abusers. Do I care if a man that beats piglets to death is unemployed? Nope, I’d be happy. So yeah, I am boycotting all Iowa products.
I was the 1983 Texas State Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow. It pained me, but I wrote Betty Crocker and General Mills and told them I would no longer be supporting their company as long as the Ag-Gag bill is on the books.
I really appreciate your posting this ‘How to Boycott Iowa’ entry. I graduated with an advanced degree from the University of Iowa, and I have family there, so I actually do visit Iowa. However, it has been brought home to me many time in my life how few people visit Iowa–or even know where it is!
I know, it must be horrible for Iowans! No one even knows where Iowa is and now Iowa will be known as the safe haven for animal abusers. What a way to make name for your state.
Thanks for writing that letter. If Betty was a real person she’d be turning in her grave. I have been boycotting all Iowa products since this evil law passed. I really miss my Bisquick!
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