Color Me Not Surprised: Kashi Isn't All-Natural
USA Today -- "Kellogg's is facing anger on social media sites because of complaints that its popular Kashi brand of cold cereals doesn't live up to the company's "natural" billing on advertisements and box covers.The controversy went viral a week ago after a Rhode Island grocer tacked a note to one of his store shelves, telling customers he wouldn't sell the cereal because he found out the brand used genetically engineered, non-organic ingredients. Photos of the note began popping up on Facebook pages and food blogs as some consumers claimed Kellogg's was misrepresenting its cereal."This is why I don't mess around with all-natural foods. The stuff these people market as "all-natural" tastes like complete ass, and surprise surprise, it's all covered in pesticides and genetically engineered at the end of the day anyway. I've never had Kashi, and I never will. This doesn't have anything to do with whether or not it's all-natural; I just assume it's awful, and if I'm going to have cereal it's probably going to be Cinnamon Toast Crunch.Whole Foods makes me irrationally angry, and the attitude of the people who shop there are even worse. Have you ever gone into a Whole Foods? The douche-factor is just off the charts. I went there once, realized that it was only for incredibly rich and/or pretentious people, and I never went back. It's like the people at Whole Foods were part of some elitist club, and I was crashing their party.What's funny to me is the complete and utter shock and outrage that the all-natural crew is spewing at Kashi over this. Why are you surprised that a big company is fibbing in marketing to sell you some cereal? Call me a cynic, but the second I saw one of Kashi's ads I knew these guys were full of BS:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOlwDJ9XAc8Alright, so you're zip-lining through the jungle, kayaking around and walking around on rickety-ass rope bridges to make me some cereal. Don't buy it. Never have.You wanna know what outrages me? It's not pesticides or modifying seven whole grains. It's horrible commercials. And terrible-tasting food. And people who believe that buying and consuming all-natural foods somehow makes them better people than me, just because I'm cheap and easy to please. Spare me the whole grains and bring me some Reese's Puffs ASAP.