Campbell's Soup pledges more 'gay' ads ('2 mommies' spread only 1st in marketing agenda)

http://www.worldnetdaily.com ^ | January 09, 2009 | www.worldnetdaily.com

[Maelstorm]

Despite being pressured by traditional family advocates to stop, Campbell's Soup Company, maker of Swanson's brand broth, has vowed to continue spending its advertising dollars in pro-homosexual publications.

As WND reported earlier, the American Family Association objected to a Swanson's broth magazine ad that depicts a lesbian couple and their son. The ad was placed in the December 2008 and January 2009 issues of The Advocate, a magazine that touts itself with the line, "For 40 years, setting the standard in LGBT journalism."

Campbell's Soup, however, has brushed off the AFA's complaint.

MediaDailyNews quoted a company spokesperson explaining, "Inclusion and diversity play an important role in our business, and that fact is reflected in our marketing plan."

According to a Campbell's representative, "Our plans for the Swanson brand include additional placements in The Advocate."

[Maelstorm]

No Soup and Pepsi for me. I'm cleaning out the cupboards. They can keep their politics out of my mouth.

http://www.campbellsoup.com/default.aspx

 

 

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[lilylangtree]

Well, damn! just damn!

[tioga]

time for us to remember how to make homemade soup......how hard can it be? and healthier?

[shoutingandpointing]

Well, my children, when it comes to Campbell’s, it’s “NO SOUP FOR YOU!” from this day forward. I am not kidding.

Anyone know where Progresso stands on the gay soup issue?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Thanks for posting the list of products I’ll be boycotting. Maybe also some other Campbell-annoying things I won’t mention. ;)

[durasell]

All soup is gay, didn’t you know?

[driftdiver]

Pepsi is also giving lots of money to these groups. Lots = $500,000

[Mouton]

Campbells joins Heinz and Vermont as companies and areas that have no products on my shelf.

Vince

[genxer]

Home made soup is very easy. I lot cheaper and if you buy hot steam canner, you can do a bunch. i have been doing it for about 6 months now and make my own. Much better for your, alot more economical and helps you in the event times really do get tough. Soup goes along way.

[Bahbah]

They are entitled to their point of view. I do not need to buy their products.

[Rome2000]

a company spokesperson explaining, "Inclusion and diversity play an important role in our business, and that fact is reflected in our marketing plan."

I guess this pencil necked geek and his retarded superiors have forgotten that there are consequences to any action.

For every one homosexual they get to but their products they will lose 1000 normal people.

[FormerLib]

Plus, homemade soup tastes much better than this processed swill.

[1rudeboy]

All soup is gay, didn’t you know?

"Mmm mmm good. Possibilities."

I'll say, yes you are correct.

[peeps36]

I don't understand the connection between homosexuality and soup. The new slogan is, “Campbells, soup is gay food”.

[Kirkwood]

[DoughtyOne]

Campbell’s Soup has honed a family image that has seen it flourish over the decades. If they value the sales to 1 to 2% of the public over the sales to 98% of the public, they can have that market segment, and I’ll go elsewhere.

It’s time the normal public started telling these activists and activist companies right where to go. I’ll be doing so with my purchasing dollars.

[shoutingandpointing]

time for us to remember how to make homemade soup......how hard can it be? and healthier?

It easier than easy. I have been doing it for decades without a recipe. That means it's always just a little bit different but always good. The best part is you make soup "to taste." If it isn't quite "there" yet, then you add a little of this or that until it is. Soup freezes really well in ZipLock bags, too.

All you have to bear in mind is you can always increase an ingredient but never decrease it once it's in the pot.

[durasell]

The new slogan is, ‘CAMPBELL’S SOUP WILL MAKE YOU GAY!NOT ONLY GAY, BUT VERY, VERY, VERY GAY!’

[Da Coyote]

Tnx for the product list. They’ll never see my cupboard again. I’m neutral on gays, but gay adverts are over the limit.

[durasell]

If they value the sales to 1 to 2% of the public over the sales to 98% of the public, they can have that market segment, and I’ll go elsewhere.

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The vast majority of that 98% of the population don’t care — they just want a bowl of soup with their grilled cheese.

[OnTheDress]

I hate it when I can’t stop using a product!

[Blue Highway]

Crock Pot soup is better than any store bought soup you can ever buy, period.

[NonZeroSum]

I’m not sure what the big deal is here. They’re simply targeting a demographic in their own publications. How likely are you to read them, or see the ads? If they ran an ad in Ebony or Jet, I’d imagine it would have black people in it. I could understand the upset if it were a Superbowl ad, but why is this such a problem?

[Allegra]

Mmmm'mmm gay
Mmmm'mmm gay
That's what Campbell's Soup is
Mmmm'mmm gay.

[Vaquero]

has anyone seen the new ad for PizzaHuts all natural/multi grain pizza.......there are two guys with one with his arm around the others neck...twice in the same ad.

seems to be the gay wave of the future.

despicable.....

[durasell]

Your crock pot may be gay if it’s made by Corning - they’re on the list!

[MovementConservative]

Ah jeez it’s a gay magazine. I don’t agree with porn either, does that mean I should boycott those companies who try to make a buck off their readers? Rush Limbaugh always says he’s running a business. So is Campbells. What do I care if they advertise in a magazine I would never even hear of if it wasn’t for this post? This is not like they are advertising on cable or broadcast.
It’s groups like these with their reactions that make all us conservatives and Christians look like we are overly concerned with individual people’s lives. If you want, don’t buy Campbells soup. From what I understand, the sodium content is so high it’s hardly something worth buying anyhow.

[Arthur McGowan]

So they still make Vagitarian Vegetable?

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds a lot like election day hugh. LOL

[jtal]

Wow I can’t think of a more family-oriented brand image than Campbell’s Soup. But they’ve decided to chuck this carefully built brand identity down the toilet.

More evidence that traditional dominance of Christian values in American culture is dead. I really think that the church will be driven underground in the USA in my kids’ lifetimes.

[Blue Highway]

5.4.3.2.1 and then the gay supporting freaks will pour in here... From the other thread...

[Blue Highway]

[lilylangtree]

Well I have a recipe for homemade vegetable beef soup. It takes about 5 minute prep time and 25 minute cooking time. Simple ordinary ingredients and it’s delicious. Also, the more times that it’s warmed over the better it gets. I call it “Carol’s Vegetable Soup” because it came from a relative. (I don’t know where she got it but she fixed it during her times of hardship raising her son alone.)

1-1.5 lb hamburger
1 box of macaroni & cheese hamburger helper
1 can of mixed vegetables
1 can of stewed tomatoes
1 tsp crushed sweet basil
Seasoning: onions, accent salt, regular salt, pepper & parsley flakes. Parsley flakes are added at the last when everything is done.

After browning hamburger with onions, add 6 cups of water. Then add cheese sauce of hamburger helper. After boiling mixture, add noodles. Then boil 10 minutes. Followed by adding mixed vegetables & stewed tomatoes. Simmer for 10 minutes. Topped with parsley flakes.

Potatoes may be added but water must be add too. 1 cup per potato added.

[SumProVita]

Email of the CEO?

[squarebarb]

There needs to be some research and an article here about PR departments in all the big corporations.

They are cntrolled by gays.

So that means that the university departments that educate people in PR are also all pretty well dominated by gays.

It’s not just Campbells, it’s the in-your-face Miller beer ads, Absolut, and in fact just about every PR department anywhere.

There’s going to be a lot more ‘gay’ ads for common products because of this fact.

And no, the gays in the PR departments don’t care that they are only 1 - 3% of the population, they have to pretend they are a big market share.

They aren’t

Might just as well demand that left-handed redheaded people be marketed to.

It’s just another organization to sieze from the top and turn into a propaganda engine, like the Episcopal church.

They are taking over the PR departments everywhere. Expect more gay ads from Quaker State oil and Paymaster horse feed and Sears and Citgo and etc. etc.

[Dionysius]

They are not merely marketing their product to homosexuals whom represent a small target audience, they are trying to mainline the behavior.

[Yaelle]

It’s MSG (neurotoxic with long term cumulative damage) in a can.

No matter what your sexuality, you should stay away from that cr@p.

[SumProVita]

You just might be surprised at how many DO care. ;-)

Lots of people are getting tired of products pushing agendas, instead of pushing their products.

[durasell]

No, they’re trying to sell as much soup as they can.

[stevio]

Campbell's is was a main staple in our family. I guess we need to find an alternative.

[Blue Highway]

Don’t be naive, if the 98% found out about this gay support from Campbells, dollars to doughnuts they WOULD care and would start boycotting their products.

[Vaquero]

[SumProVita]

Very true....and we’ve been using our crockpot often these days.

[Blue Highway]

Nope it’s Kitchen Aid.

[shoutingandpointing]

All soup is gay, didn’t you know?

Not the soup mom makes. Not the soup dad makes. Not the soup grandma made. Not my soup. My soup is 100% bonafide heterosoupual.

I do not like that soup turned gay

I do not like it any way

I do not like it in a bowl

I do not like it with a roll

I do not like it here or there

I do not like it anywhere

I do not like gay soup I say

I do not like that soup turned gay!

DISCLAIMER: This entire post is 100% satire and sarcasm. Just covering my backside lest someone construe this post or any part thereof a hate crime or an attack on anyone's or any company's lifestyle and/or business practices/model choice(s) and potentially Constitutionally guaranteed right to gay soup.

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

“Campbell’s Soup, however, has brushed off the AFA’s complaint.”

Wonder if they’ll brush it off if inundated with threats of boycott by thousands of individual consumers...

I’m gonna do my part and make my opinion known.

[durasell]

It’s very simple — you define the entire universe as soup eaters. Then you say, how can we divide all those soup eaters into groups — cutting the soup eating demographic pie into increasingly smaller slices. Then you create an ad for each of those little slices.

[pandoraou812]

What aren’t the gays involved in anymore???? I really wish them back into the closet. I need to get a juicer & learn how to make V8 juice as I will be boycotting as much as I can. And I plan to tell these companies why too.

[Steelfish]

Folks like Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity need to publicize this. We need a full-fledged publicized boycott just like the homosexuals and perverts do. I’m tossing out of the shelves all Campbell soup products etc and calling the local grocery stores and letting them know of the boycott. We need to mobilize and do what the gays and lesbians do. This time, let’s make sure that what’s sauce for the goose is good for the gander.

[Mogwai]

Their gay agenda should have been clear even earlier. Spaghetti O’s is obviously a lesbian soup: all O’s. A heterosexual soup would have also had X’s. And with a like number of X’s it would have been an admirable monogamous soup, too.