State Representative Brad Paquette is lending his voice to the chorus calling on Kellogg’s to stop using artificial dyes in its children’s breakfast cereals.

A group led by an activist who calls herself the Food Babe delivered petitions with more than 400,000 signatures to the Kellogg’s headquarters in Battle Creek Tuesday. Representative Paquette was slated to speak at the event. He says all of the artificial chemicals being put into our food can’t be good.

“They use hazardous materials like BHT and these dyes, these synthetic dyes in their foods that are targeted towards children,” Paquette said. “These things have some long-term ramifications on the young person’s mind, like ADHD linked to studies in cancers and things like that. So, a lot of people are pretty fed up with that.”

Paquette says Kellogg’s uses natural ingredients in cereals in some other countries. So, he asks, why not here?

Food Babe, also known as Vani Hari, is a blogger and mother of two. The company denied the petitioners a meeting on Tuesday, prompting Food Babe to call for a boycott.