A Letter to the Kroger Board of Directors...

Paul speaking: “So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.” Acts 24:16

I repeatedly and successfully ignored the sign below in my somewhat regular visits to our local Kroger store. One day, for some reason, I decided that I would look directly at its message. A couple of days later, my conscience refused to allow me to employ what usually worked: “out of sight, out of mind.” Unlike Paul, my modus operandi was the opposite of what Paul testified to be his m.o. While I seek avoidance, Paul sought direct opportunities to be ruffled by the world and its ways, and for any to whom he could share that which God loves: truth. With a nudge of conscience, I sent this letter below to the individual members on the Kroger Board of Directors. What was the cost to me? some hours of writing and rewriting, and a slight cost for postage, but not much else. Will my letter have an impact? If I was a betting man, I wouldn’t. But…?

[Names withheld], Board Member, Kroger

Kroger Corporate Office

1014 Vine Street

Cincinnati, OH 45202

Dear [Individual Names withheld], Board Member:

For a number of years my wife and I have been regular Kroger shoppers. We have been generally very satisfied with the quality and selection of food items, produce, meats and poultry at our Kroger stores.

As a long time Kroger customer I am writing to the Kroger Board to voice my concern of conscience regarding its corporate relationship to its individual customers in the communities Kroger serves. To my thinking, Kroger has typically not only publicly stated its intention to be a corporate good neighbor but has commendably followed through to make this corporate goal a reality in the communities it serves as a reliable grocer. One of Kroger’s stated goals is to “Advance Equitable Communities.” Additionally, Kroger publicly states: Since our earliest days, the Kroger family of companies has been a good neighbor and trusted local partner to the communities we serve from coast to coast. Our commitment includes charitable giving, service and outreach that supports and strengthens neighborhoods and helps families live healthier lives. (Accessed 9/16/2024)

I am challenging the Kroger Board to continue to exhibit its intention to be a good neighbor by recovering the relationship of honesty and trustworthiness to its communities and the individuals in those communities it serves. A good neighbor would eagerly share any news that would directly bear on her neighbor’s health and quality of life. For Kroger to be a genuine “good neighbor” in its communities, it would seek in its corporate policies to ensure that each of its stores in all of its communities presented the same standard of “good neighborliness” that Mr. Barney Kroger, Founder, intended in his motto: “Never sell anything you would not want yourself.”   

Due to the preponderance of evidence from mainline scientific journals, major public voices demonstrating reasonableness and veracity in reporting on legitimate sources, credentialed research scientists, doctors, and independent labs, there is absolutely no excuse for Kroger or any corporate entity with a strong community-based, moral ethic to ignore the over-whelming evidence of the dangers and risks associated with the Covid-19 “vaccine.” The Board can easily arrange to have full and complete access to this growing body of evidence in order to verify for itself the extreme necessity to question the official narrative regarding the safe use to human long and short-term health, and to what health benefits, if any, the Covid-19 “vaccine” has, based on the evidence. The dangers to human health, the ingredients which are undisclosed but proven to be present in the “vaccine” by worldwide medical researchers and labs, and the poisonous nature of the mRNA injection and its trial-studies lab results should all be sufficient to cause the Board to stop, question, study, examine, and revise its policy of offering the Covid-19 “vaccine” – carte blanche or otherwise.  

I should not need to recount for the Board the many examples in history by which by honest oversight, ignorance by absence of knowledge, as well as by willful ignorance by avoidance of the awful truth and subsequent necessary compensatory corporate actions, individual and group corporate insouciance, corporate  insincerity of true moral concern for its customers’ well-being, American businesses have had the burden of determining corporate policy when much is at stake, including of course, corporate and shareholder financial concerns. But the question concerning the mRNA Covid-19 “vaccine” is relatively easy for those who have taken the time and made the effort to gather, consider, and weigh the evidence from independent as well as official sources, when such businesses and retailers serve as a principal pipeline between supplier of the mRNA “vaccine” and the results from its use that are documented around the world of the poisonous and deadly effects of this “vaccine”, packaged without past regulated scientific trials and standards and anecdotal assurances from Big Pharma, a political and social media censorship by Big Tech, and incomplete and exceptionally deficient scientific evidence of human safety by the governmental health agencies captured by Big Pharma as the agencies’ monopoly funding source.

By continuing to offer the Covid-19 injection, Kroger continues to ignore the substantial and increasingly scientifically published and available evidence worldwide by independent biomedical researchers and scientists including Pharma and health agency whistleblowers. These independent scientists, sans funding from Big Pharma, have found substantial causative injurious results from the Covid-19 “vaccine” far exceeding previous thresholds for halting or withdrawing such vaccines from the public. This is inarguable and prompts, “Why is this?” It is inexcusable to me and a growing number of citizens with this pressing and serious concern that like other corporations pledged to the common good, Kroger’s Board is failing to accept the political, social, and financial challenge orchestrated by governmental and transnational pharmaceuticals. which have so far successfully propagandized the public with the Covid-19 injection. But with private, independent, and well-intentioned means and responsibilities, Kroger’s social responsibility to its customers must be actualized by its commitment to exhaust resources to determine the safety and healthiness of the Covid-19 “vaccine.” When serious scientific opposition and scientific results around the world provide the counter-narrative to financially incentivized pharmaceuticals, Pharma-funded agencies and executives, a much different scenario exists. Will Kroger continue to choose the revenue and profits from a corrupted, immoral, and unethical “vaccine” or choose its customers’ protection and human rights? Or, will Kroger take a position in a cautious but unflinching regard for its customers and their short and long term health to lead other corporations to join in the growing outcry against the mRNA “vaccine” and corrupted medical authorities? It is time for the individuals responsible for corporate action to question, conduct their own independent research, examine, study and choose the moral and ethical course in regard to the health products they offer to the public. This is the meaning of social responsibility. For the Board to fail to do this is to assign Mr. Barney Kroger’s motto and its own corporate ethic to the wastebin of triviality.

Kroger’s resolve to examine all the scientific evidence in reviewing its offering the controversial “vaccine” may require a sober re-thinking of its corporate responsibility to act in support of individuals’ human rights. The universal moral law, the Nuremberg Laws, established by the world of nations from the atrocities of World War II, and the historic major religions all command private and public organizations to act in their financial and social practices to uphold the respect and dignity and the human rights of the individual person. In considering the possibility of a poisonous “vaccine” injection, all Kroger’s efforts to enact and sustain human rights attest to the demand that Kroger stop the ongoing provision and distribution of the mRNA jab. There is no historical difference in Kroger’s ongoing compliance with health authorities in its offering the poisonous mRNA jab to unsuspecting individuals than the German Nazis’ bureaucrats’ and industrial corporations’ compliance in the 1930s and 1940s with the sending unsuspecting Jews and knowing resisters to their degradations and murder in the concentration camps. Were it to continue in its present practice regarding the Covid-19 “vaccine,” the Kroger Corporation and its Board of Directors willingly “go along to get along” in history’s present governmental and business episode filled with “banalities of evil.”

Kroger should withhold the distribution and the provision of the mRNA “vaccine” injection amidst the medically informed fog that surrounds the jab. Short of stopping the offer of the jab, minimally Kroger should put public, in-store signage at its pharmacy counters and in its corporate advertising and its publicly stated policy, the warning - scientifically attributable to valid independent and mainline research, that “the Covid-19 injection can be hazardous to your health possibly leading to serious health and immune disfunction or death.” Kroger needs to act to restore confidence in its communities that the Kroger Corporation intends to transparently fulfill its corporate social and humane responsibility for the benefit and human rights of its customers in those communities it serves. Now is the time for Kroger to demonstrate in pragmatic terms the meaning of a corporate “good neighbor”, and in a much needed affirmation of its founder to “only sell what you, in your fuller understanding of what’s in the Covid-19 “vaccine”, would want for yourself and loved ones.”

Sincerely,

Bryan Terry/s

Bryan Terry, PhD-History ABD

PS – In today’s climate, this letter and its message can be easily ignored. I suspect that the time is approaching that the American public will demand the moral accountability from those businesses who avoided any responsibility for their failure to know and act for the common good in respect to the dangerous aftereffects of the Covid-19 “vaccine.” Today, these moral forces may not be bearing on the Kroger Corporation. However, Kroger’s Board of Directors, as individuals, cannot escape the crucial moral consequences by disregarding positive action for the common good that is always revealed in history.

Cc: [All other Kroger Board members by name.]