That’s what makes stay-at-home moms like Tara Siler so unique: After four years of winning recognition as a star sales consultant for The Pampered Chef — one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing kitchenware companies — this spring she gave up her salary, slashing her family’s income in half.
Her pro-life convictions led her to resign after she learned her company was bought last fall by Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a conglomerate of corporate heavyweights including Dairy Queen, See’s Candy and Fruit of the Loom. Turns out the new owner, Warren Buffett, is — in addition to being the world’s second-wealthiest man — one of the abortion industry’s top financiers.
For years, his company has funneled profits — about $9 million a year to be exact — into The Buffett Foundation, which in turn donated at least $11 million to pro-choice and reproductive-rights groups in 2002. Headed by Buffett and his wife, Susan, the foundation bankrolls Planned Parenthood clinics worldwide. Interestingly, the $9 million received by the foundation in 2001 constituted more than half of Berkshire’s contributions under its charitable giving program that year (over $16 million).
According to Business Week, The Buffett Foundation also made a five-year, $20 million commitment to International Projects Assistance Services — the principal manufacturer of suction pumps used in abortions. “It’s the money to actually do the abortions . . . the nuts and bolts, the hard stuff that he funds,” said Steve Mosher, who, as director of the Virginia-based Population Research Institute, spoke on behalf of pro-life shareholders at Berkshire’s annual meeting last year.
So, despite her $5,000-a-month sales record, Siler didn’t hesitate to quit when a fellow Chef told her about that agenda. “It wasn’t a hard decision because I knew what I had to do,” the 30-year-old West Virginia mom told Citizen. “But it was a very, very difficult sacrifice. It was four years of my heart and my life.
“When I mailed my resignation letter, I didn’t want to proofread it because I was afraid if I looked at it, I would change my mind,” she said. “So I didn’t; I just threw it in the mailbox.” <>That’s what makes stay-at-home moms like Tara Siler so unique: After four years of winning recognition as a star sales consultant for The Pampered Chef — one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing kitchenware companies — this spring she gave up her salary, slashing her family’s income in half. Her pro-life convictions led her to resign after she learned her company was bought last fall by Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a conglomerate of corporate heavyweights including Dairy Queen, See’s Candy and Fruit of the Loom. Turns out the new owner, Warren Buffett, is — in addition to being the world’s second-wealthiest man — one of the abortion industry’s top financiers. For years, his company has funneled profits — about $9 million a year to be exact — into The Buffett Foundation, which in turn donated at least $11 million to pro-choice and reproductive-rights groups in 2002. Headed by Buffett and his wife, Susan, the foundation bankrolls Planned Parenthood clinics worldwide. Interestingly, the $9 million received by the foundation in 2001 constituted more than half of Berkshire’s contributions under its charitable giving program that year (over $16 million). According to Business Week, The Buffett Foundation also made a five-year, $20 million commitment to International Projects Assistance Services — the principal manufacturer of suction pumps used in abortions. “It’s the money to actually do the abortions . . . the nuts and bolts, the hard stuff that he funds,” said Steve Mosher, who, as director of the Virginia-based Population Research Institute, spoke on behalf of pro-life shareholders at Berkshire’s annual meeting last year. So, despite her $5,000-a-month sales record, Siler didn’t hesitate to quit when a fellow Chef told her about that agenda. “It wasn’t a hard decision because I knew what I had to do,” the 30-year-old West Virginia mom told Citizen. “But it was a very, very difficult sacrifice. It was four years of my heart and my life. “When I mailed my resignation letter, I didn’t want to proofread it because I was afraid if I looked at it, I would change my mind,” she said. “So I didn’t; I just threw it in the mailbox.”
She’s not alone. In the last few months, pro-life consultants in several states have resigned or verbally protested their profits going to one of the world’s biggest abortion promoters. It’s an insurrection of Chefs, so to speak.