Why You Should Boycott Whole Foods

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141961/why_you_should_boycott_whole_foods/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet_workplace

By Russell Mokhiber , CounterPunch. Posted August 14, 2009.

The company's CEO has just launched a major campaign to defeat a single payer national health insurance system.

John Mackey is a right wing libertarian.

He’s a union buster.

He believes that corporations should not be criminally prosecuted for their crimes.

He has just launched a campaign to defeat a single payer national health insurance system.

And he’s the CEO of Whole Foods.

Primo hangout of liberal Democratic yuppies.

“We are all responsible for our own lives and our own health,” Mackey wrote yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. “We should take that responsibility very seriously and use our freedom to make wise lifestyle choices that will protect our health. Doing so will enrich our lives and will help create a vibrant and sustainable American society.”

Yes it will, John Mackey.

Yes it will.

I do take that responsibility very seriously.

I try to eat well.

And exercise regularly.

I also take my responsibility as a citizen seriously.

FULL story at link.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Thanks for the heads up.

There's no Whole Foods store in my neighborhood but one is close to my current work location. Have not patronized it yet and will not based on your post.

[CoffeeCat]

2. Wow, this is a bad business move..

Any business owner will tell you that keeping politics out of your business is a good idea. Otherwise,
you alienate half of your customers.

This guy is totally hard right, and he's fighting hard against Progressive causes.

Am I mistaken, or wouldn't many of his customers be Progressive? Whole foods is about organic, healthy food, right?
Isn't this one of the issues and concerns that Progressives routinely discuss and further?

Who knows. Maybe his food is so expensive, that he feels he's catering to the elite-Republican types.

I'm mystified.

[greennina]

4. Their bread is soooo good!

I hated reading that post.

[Walk away]

3. I was thinking of starting a thread in "general"....

getting people to suggest alternatives to WF in their local areas.

If I knew how to reference your post I would but I not very good at that kind of stuff.

[muntrv]

5. Well this is ironic because many of the Whole Foods employees appear to be

progressives, some even hippies.