Seward Co-Op Dumps Some Products Made by Anti-Birth Control Eden Foods, Cites Poor Sales
As local co-ops and groceries take heat for not dumping products made by Eden Foods, a Catholic-owned company under fire for refusing to provide birth control to its employees on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, the response from places like Mississippi Market and the Seward Co-op has been largely the same — they won’t boycott, but urge customers to vote with their dollars.
Some are apparently doing just that at the Seward Co-op, and in response, management announced earlier this week that they’ve already stopped selling some Eden products.
In the week after SCOTUS announced its Hobby Lobby ruling on June 30, sales of Eden products dropped 12 percent, Seward officials say on a post on the co-op’s website. For the first four weeks of July as a whole compared to last year, sales of Eden products were down 15 percent.
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