Dear Heinz (and other food manufacturers);

I want you to know that I've been using your products all of my life. My family has owned stock in your company all of my life. Heck, Heinz ketchup is the ONLY ketchup I like.
I've recently decided that I'd like to live a healthier life. I'm not saying that I go to the gym as often as I'd like, or diet in fad ways (I did say healthier)... But I am trying to get more healthy in what I consume, when the choice is up to me. When I go to the grocery store, I am a label reader. I've decided that I don't want to buy products with ingredients that I don't know, or think are necessary to ingest.
For example, I used to believe that sugar was bad, so I switched to "sweeteners" that I was told were a better form and better for me. Well, I am already concerned with my brain functions, so artificial sweeteners are not something that I want, especially if they are helping to deteriorate said functions. Because of this, I've given up most soda's, Crystal Light, and most juices. So goodbye artificial sweeteners, and hello again sugar or honey, or maple syrup, or what about beet sugar?
This goes for High Fructose Corn Syrup as well. I understand that it makes the products less expensive to produce, and therefore cheaper for us to buy. But I'm no longer buying them, so you and your friends, or competitors are loosing money. I recently read the label of my favorite soup growing up as a child, Campbell's tomato, and there it was staring at me. No more of that either. Instead, I bought an organic soup with ingredients that I understood. Do I care that it's organic- no. I care that it says what the product contains (Filtered water, Tomatoes, Roasted red bell peppers, organic evaporated cane juice, corn starch, onion, garlic, sea salt, spices). Nothing weird there...
Interesting fact Heinz- I paid MORE for your "NEW! Simply Heinz Tomato Ketchup", in a smaller container because I understand your Ingredients: Tomato concentrate from red ripe tomatoes, distilled vinegar, sugar, salt, onion powder, spice, natural flavoring... Now I'm not sure what spice you use for "spice", or what natural flavoring really is, and maybe I don't need to know, but I'd much rather eat things that are more simple of ingredients than not.
Mind you, I'm not perfect. I can't control what they use in restaurants (well I can by not eating there), but when I can control it through my purchases, I will.
I write this today beacuse on facebook you posted that you are bringing back the "retro" glass bottles, but you aren't probably putting the "retro" formula in those are you? Doesn't anyone remember the whole "new Coke" fiasco? Coca~Cola went back to the "Classic" recipe, after consumers wouldn't stand for it.
I URGE you and other food manufacturers to PLEASE go back to simple ingredients. I would rather pay for this in dollars, rather than in obesity or health problems down the road.

Sincerely,
me
and possibly a few hundred other people 

P.S. 
I'm not signing with my actual name, not because I don't believe in what I said, but because my whole blog is more of a personal challenge, and not necessarily for public consumption without some sort of anonymity...