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Do you like gummy bears, jelly bellies, or candy corn?


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Do you like gummy bears, jelly bellies, or candy corn? If you are transgender and keep buying those, you will be financing people who are openly working against you as a transgender human being. You will be financing people who believe that you do not even exist, that you are simply "sick in the head", that you should be "put in camps".

http://www.frontiersla.com/frontiers-blog/2013/10/22/jelly-belly-candy-chair-and-new-york-hedge-fund-manager-underwriting-anti-trans-student-initiative

I don't know about you, but I won't be handing out gummy bears, jelly bellies, or candy corn this Halloween.

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Yes this is a game changer. I also wonder what other subsidiaries and store brand candy is produced by him? Many companies have a plan "B" if they think any one stream of income will be boycotted. Whack A Mole anyone? Giggle. Hug. JodyAnn

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No fair!! Our side has two of the cutest and most personable young people on its article!! They are NOT in Halloween costumes either!!

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Guest KimberlyF

Jelly belly also makes chocolate products. So stay away from giving that away.

They're known for jelly beans. There are bigger companies in the US that make candy corn and gummy bears.

Of course nobody can go to Universal Studios anymore either, because they have a deal with Harry Potter and profit on the sale of every flavor beans made by Jelly Belly.

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I predict they will fail. I think Californian's are fed up with divisive issues like this. These guys lost all credibility with mainstream folks after Prop 8, and decent people are on to their lies and scare tactics.

I rarely eat candy corn, but I'm sure I can find some produced by someone besides the jerk profiled in the article. Thanks for letting us know, Liz.

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Carolyn Marie

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Guest DianeATL

The only gummy bears I like are from Haribo - which is not part of Jelly Belly to my knowledge. The knock offs over here taste more like eating pencil erasers compared to the Haribo brand.

MMMM

Diane

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About the only one of those I ever eat is candy corn. But not very much. If I can't find a different manufacture I will just give them up. Hmmmmm Give them up to protest there anti-trans donations and improve my health at the same time. It is a win-win.

How sad it is that producers of treats for children are the very ones who want to bring pain and misery to those children that don't fit in their narrow box.

Mia

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It would be a wonderful thing if another competitor came out that they were gender friendly and support anything good. They could pull in all the customers left in the void. Giggle. Candy wars? Hmmm... Take that very same photo of the girls and slash it on the package. A truth campaign for exposing JB for what it is? A few really stealthy post ops coming out to that company at work and the EEOC might work too. LOL! Just Jody's pretzel logic in action. Hug.

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Guest ChefErik93

unfortunately all big companies buy into politics that we may not like. i honestly try not to pay too much attention to it because i would never buy anything. while this is awful it is impossible to find an open and honest company that doesn't have one particular view that isn't offensive to someone

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Guest KimberlyF

unfortunately all big companies buy into politics that we may not like. i honestly try not to pay too much attention to it because i would never buy anything. while this is awful it is impossible to find an open and honest company that doesn't have one particular view that isn't offensive to someone

Boycotts rarely work. So I just ignore them like most of the country.

When the 'million moms' boycotted JCPenneys over Ellen, sales went up. When the LGBT boycotted Chick-FIL-a, they set record sales.

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