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Beautiful video, eloquent & powerful.
I'm glad Cains [huge regional pickle giant] is doing the right thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmiGQJlpGW0
I'm glad Cains [huge regional pickle giant] is doing the right thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmiGQJlpGW0
New England mom's actions change a food label
Posted by Kristi Palma February 25, 2013 10:37 AM
Chelley Martinka, 28, of Cranston R.I., went grocery shopping with her husband and daughter one day in December. When she reached for a pickle jar, what she saw offended her. The Cains label in front of her read "Kosher Dill Midgets." The Martinkas have a 10-month-old daughter named Adelaide who has Achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism. She went home, created the above video, shared it on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and her blog, as well as with the company. The result? The president of Gedney Foods, the Minnesota company that owns the Cains brand, called her personally to tell her the label would be changed. We reached out to the company for a statement and it did not provide one, but it told the Providence Journal in an email that it is "simply doing the right thing." Martinka talked with Boston.com Moms about the experience...
http://boston.com/community/moms/blogs/parent_buzz/2013/02/_chelley_martinka_28_of.html