The Origin of Kellogg’s cereal

In the young United States, one of the loudest anti-masturbation voices was a Michigan physician named John Harvey Kellogg. The good doctor was a bit uncomfortable about sex, thinking it detrimental to physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. He personally abstained from it, and never consummated his marriage (and may have actually spent his honeymoon working on one of his anti-sex books). He and his wife kept separate bedrooms and adopted all of their children.

Kellogg’s solution was to feed people bland, terrible food (literally, that was the idea). And so that is where the Kellogg’s cereal came from. Kellogg’s vision is even more embodied today where people the world over consume his cereals now laced with hormone disrupting, sterilizing chemicals.