Posted on 06/26/2024 5:38:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Tractor Supply is facing controversy and calls for a boycott over its supposed "woke" agenda, diversity, and inclusive hiring policies.
Founded in 1938, Tractor Supply has 2200 stores across the U.S. and over 46,000 employees across 49 states. The American retail giant is known for selling home, garden, land, and animal-related products.
Tractor Supply's 'Woke' Controversy Explained Right-wing activist Robby Starbuck lashed out at Tractor Supply and CEO Hal Lawton in a viral post on X (formerly Twitter), which has over 2.7 million views. Starbuck criticized the company for having customers' "hard-earned money spent on these woke priorities" such as LGBTQIA+ and related DEI initiatives:
- "LGBTQIA+ training for employees
- Funding pride/drag events
- They have a DEI Council
- Funding sex changes
- Climate change activism
- Pride month decorations in the office
- DEI hiring practices
- LGBTQIA+ events at work"
In a follow-up post, Starbuck shared a quote from one of Tractor Supply's yearly reports which discussed its $570,000 donation to causes supporting the disabled, minorities, and LGBTQIA+ groups in 2021:
"In 2021, Tractor Supply donated more than $570,000 to DE&I causes, benefitting veterans, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ+ youth, Hispanic Team Members, women and Black and African Americans."
Starbuck alleged that the vast majority of Tractor Supply's customer base is conservative before sharing images from retail stores coated in LGBTQIA+ flags and other assorted Pride-related decorations.
The right-wing activist accused Tractor Supply and Hal Lawton of having a "woke" agenda and funding these policies with customers' money.
Starbuck went on to encourage Tractor Supply shoppers to take their business elsewhere and proposed Lawton instead use some of his reported $11 million salary on these causes as opposed to company money.
The official Tractor Supply corporate website details some of its policies for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Its policies cover four areas - team members, welcoming environments, customers, and communities with a promise in its hiring to "reflect the diversity of [their] communities and customers:"
"Team Members: Attract, engage, develop & retain Team Members with backgrounds that reflect the diversity of our communities and customers.
Welcoming Environments: Ensure that the power of our values is experienced every day across our Team Members, customers and the communities we call home.
Customers: Know and celebrate our diverse customers and create a welcoming and inclusive experience.
Communities: Foster meaningful relationships with diverse community partners and invest in the communities we call home."
According to CEO Action, Tractor Supply offered company-wide DEI training in 2020 to educate employees on "unconscious bias and inclusiveness:"
"Beginning in the 3rd quarter of 2020 we set out on a mission to educate all Team Members on the topics of unconscious bias and inclusiveness. We offered Conscious Inclusion, Instructor Led - Training to our District Managers and all people leaders at our Store Support Center and Distribution Centers... Our Store Managers and all Individual Contributors in the company received an E-learning training on 'The Need for Inclusion.'"
On its official corporate website, Tractor Supply revealed in 2023 how it had been recognized by "two separate entities as a diverse and inclusive workplace." These included qualifying for the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and being hailed among America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity.
Executive Vice President Melissa Kersey addressed Tractor Supply's DEI recognition in the post, calling the retail giant a "safe, respectful, and inclusive work environment:"......
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I like Tractor supply. I don’t care what they do with my money. I am not wasting my time or energy wondering what the company does. I am sure a lot of companies do things that I don’t agree with. They don’t care what I do with the things I buy there either.
waiting for the ‘free case of Butt Lite with every purchase’
-fJRoberts-
I am impressed. Smart shopper and can procure own injections. Include Covid and rabies. And I understand invermectin horse paste is still available? Wow.
i’ve lost count of all the products and companies i’m “supposed” to boycott ... if i boycotted them all, i couldn’t buy food, couldn’t buy spare parts, couldn’t buy building supplies, couldn’t buy software, couldn’t buy computers, couldn’t buy medicines, couldn’t use free sofware ...
Around $25 at TS. I’ll just find it at a local feed store.
They’ve been Out of Stock here locally for a while but I got some from WallyWorld that was actually shipped from a Veterinarian supply in IIRC Mississippi. It’s Red Apple Flavor, last time it was Green Apple from TSC Local.
Thanks, I’ll be checking it out soon here.
We switched from Dumor to Flock Party.
Believe it or not, the 16% “Producer’s Pride” was working well as a “complete” layer feed and they laid very well. No supplemental feeds needed. And most times the only other feed they have in stock is the Dumor. I called them about it and they told me to add oyster shells. I asked them “why should I have to when all the other 16% layer feeds are complete and work fine without any supplemental feeds?”
Crickets... They would not answer my question. That is an indicator they are guilty of misrepresentation.
Keep whistling past the graveyard like millions of others.
Nothing could possibly go wrong...
wrong...
wrong...
wrong...
Our tractor supply usually has Flock party and Purina layena. Both good products. If they have the layena mash I get that and the Flock Party scratch.
You do what you can.
If there are somewhat reasonable alternatives I boycott the evil companies.
In the local area it is particularly important to boycott any company celebrating perversion month.
“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
Part of the problem I have in getting what I want is because I only use pellets. Crumbles and smaller just get ground into the dirt and half of it wasted. The pellets will at least survive being buried until they are scratched back up again. I found this out by trial and error against tradition.
I'm still trying to figure out how and why "unconscious" replaced "subconscious" ...
We use crumbles but we feed out of a feeder. The only thing I put on the ground are meal worms, bread, veggies etc. Although Purina now has mash in pearls which I tried and liked but it sells out fast.
The problem I have is the nature of Chickens... lol
We feed them from feeders too. But they insist on kicking the feed out of the feeders into the dirt and then grind in more than they eat as they scratch. So pellets tend to survive this action better and they can still scratch them up later. :)
Well ours kind of do that too so I elevate my feeder on a cement block which somewhat mitigates it but yes we also get spillover.
As they say, it is the nature of the beast. :)
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