Why would State Farm make such a controversial decision to pull one of their ads featuring someone who helped families with vaccine-injured children in private, knowing that they would lose customers over it? Could it be they were pressured to do so because they just jumped into the lucrative health insurance exchange business?
According to PR Week, State Farm has decided to drop an ad starring comedian Rob Schneider from its rotation due to his "anti-vaccine views" after a social media outcry. Well, bravo for the power of social media. Now here is my response. I am immediately dropping State Farm. I have used State Farm for my car and home insurance for about 15 years. I just sent an email to my agent, letting her know how disappointed I was to learn that State Farm had caved in to the pharmaceutical vaccine industry, an industry rife with fraud and corruption, simply because one of the actors in their advertisements sees fit to warn parents on the dangers of vaccines. State Farm, you have lost me as a customer.
