As I understand it, those donations come from the Buffet Foundation, which employees of Bershire Hathaway shareholders make contributions to...the last paragraph of this little snippet explains that the contribution program was discontinued with respect to Pampered Chef. Of course, Buffett will still profit from PC sales & continue to make his donations, but as CutiePie2000 says, it's a matter of your personal tolerance level....
Here's a little more on this subject from snopes:
(for full text see
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/buffett.asp)
The motive force behind Berkshire Hathaway is its chairman and chief executive, Warren Buffett.....His charitable organization, the Buffett Foundation, currently has $25.3 million in assets, and these holdings are expected to swell to $36 billion when Buffett and his wife die and their shares in Berkshire Hathaway go to the Buffett Foundation, which will make it the richest charitable foundation in the world.
About 60 percent of the $33.4 million bestowed by the Buffett Foundation in fiscal year 2001 went toward family planning, reproductive rights, and population control programs operated by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Johns Hopkins University, and the United Nations in accordance with Warren Buffett's beliefs that population growth must be checked before exceeding a level sustainable by the earth's resources. The Buffett Foundation also funds a number of college scholarships and awards in recognition of exemplary teachers.
In July 2003 Berkshire Hathaway announced the end of its shareholder-designated contribution program. It cited certain donations, including some made by Buffett, for causing "harmful criticism" to be directed at Pampered Chef as the reason for ending the donations program.
Berkshire said all its subsidiaries will continue to support local charities under direction of their local managers in a manner consistent with what has been done.