The Race Betterment Foundation was a eugenics and racial hygiene organization founded in 1914 at Battle Creek, Michigan by John Harvey Kellogg due to his concerns about what he perceived as “race degeneracy”.
weird, considering how the founder of Kellogg’s was such a great guy.
Just to clarify, John Harvey Kellogg is not the founder of Kellogg. His brother, Will Keith founded the cereal company. John Harvey owned a sanitarium and advocated all sorts of kooky things, mostly “health” related, as broadly as that term was considered at the time. IIRC Will Keith didn’t seem to share a lot of his brother’s beliefs but was more than happy to sell the cereals his brother promoted as beneficial to his adherents.
Of course, a wealthy industrialist supporting racist beliefs at the turn of the last century would be pretty common, but I don’t know specifically about W. K. Kellogg’s beliefs.
weird, considering how the founder of Kellogg’s was such a great guy.
Just to clarify, John Harvey Kellogg is not the founder of Kellogg. His brother, Will Keith founded the cereal company. John Harvey owned a sanitarium and advocated all sorts of kooky things, mostly “health” related, as broadly as that term was considered at the time. IIRC Will Keith didn’t seem to share a lot of his brother’s beliefs but was more than happy to sell the cereals his brother promoted as beneficial to his adherents.
Of course, a wealthy industrialist supporting racist beliefs at the turn of the last century would be pretty common, but I don’t know specifically about W. K. Kellogg’s beliefs.
West of Loathing lampoons Kellogg and it’s pretty great.