@thriftymaid and @casheroo, for the wrong reason, I just found out!
When I moved from the East to the West Coast and went grocery shopping with my not-yet-husband, he stopped me from purchasing my favorite tomato juice, Welch’s, saying he was not willing to support the guy who founded the John Birch Society. I agreed, and in the 30+ years since we have not bought one single Welch’s product.
Of course, that was long before the resources of the Internet were available to us, and it would have been a lot of trouble to actually research the question. I just took his word for it.
But last night, when you asked, I did a quick Google search and learned that the Welch who founded the John Birch Society is not the Welch’s grape juice and tomato juice guy at all. That was just an old and mistaken piece of information, now corrected. I am dismayed that I held onto the error for so long (and did without Welch’s grape jelly all that time!), but happy that I no longer have to avoid those products.