{"id":98381,"date":"2020-04-16T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98381"},"modified":"2020-04-16T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:10:26","slug":"another-icon-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98381","title":{"rendered":"Another Icon Falls&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98382 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-o-lakes-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-o-lakes-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-o-lakes-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-o-lakes-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/land-o-lakes.jpg 1862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Many on social media are celebrating the move, criticizing the company for using the image of a Native American woman for its branding in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;To Political Correctness.<\/h3>\n<p>After nearly 100 years, Land O&#8217; Lakes is dropping the native &#8216;Butter Maiden&#8217; from its packaging. Caving to the PC crowd, who claim the image is racist, the new packaging will have only the lake and forest depicted, with some other logo modifications. Granted, it&#8217;s a small change, but indicative of how the endlessly outraged class is endlessly outraged, and it&#8217;s getting pretty stale.<\/p>\n<p>Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n<h3>Land O&#8217; Lakes drops &#8216;racist&#8217; Native American image from packaging<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Alexandra Deabler<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/food-drink\">Land O&#8217; Lakes<\/a> has an updated look for 2020.  The farmer-owned dairy cooperative, which produces butter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/food-drink\/food\/snack-foods\">cheese<\/a> and other milk products, has dropped the Native American maiden image from its packaging, opting instead for just a landscape.  The logo, which has been the company\u2019s label for nearly 100 years since it was founded in Minnesota in 1921, has been called \u201cracist\u201d and criticized for its use of the \u201cbutter maiden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The farmer-owned dairy cooperative, which produces butter, cheese and other milk products, has dropped the Native American maiden image from its packaging, opting instead for just a landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The logo, which has been the company\u2019s label for nearly 100 years since it was founded in Minnesota in 1921, has been called \u201cracist\u201d and criticized for its use of the \u201cbutter maiden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new label was announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landolakesinc.com\/Press\/News\/new-butter-and-dairy-packaging\">press release<\/a> from Land O\u2019 Lakes in February, though it made no specific mention of removing the Native American image from all products.<\/p>\n<p>The press release shared \u201cthe new packaging will show up in a variety of ways, including through a new front-of-package design that features the phrase \u2018Farmer-Owned\u2019 above the LAND O LAKES brandmark,\u201d as well as include pictures of farmers and co-op members on the label.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/food-drink\/land-o-lakes-drops-native-american-image-packaging\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Poe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many on social media are celebrating the move, criticizing the company for using the image of &hellip; <a title=\"Another Icon Falls&#8230;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98381\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Icon Falls&#8230;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,406,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-guest-link","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98383,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98381\/revisions\/98383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}