Posted on 05/17/2009 4:42:27 PM PDT by Shout Bits
Hmmmmm
Cargill (sp?) has spoken?
Lets see, natural foods or something thats been irradiated, grown in a cage, genetically modified, grown in a vat, or scraped up off the floor and sold as filler.
Seems to me something towards the natural side is a little bit better.
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However, Whole Foods is a great American success story and I have been shopping there since they only had one store on earth.
I am not so sure I can agree with organic food being just as tasty and healthy as non-organic food. We buy our groceries from Trader Joe’s and anecdotally at least I can tell you that food is much better quality than what we get at other grocery stores. It is also a lot cheaper as well.
1) organic farming may well keep small US farms going, which means if the supply chain from South America goes bad, we might still eat
2) in addition to the hippy stuff, Whole Foods has lots of delicious and interesting ingredients that are hard to find elsewhere. Their produce section is a delight. Four kinds of kale! Baby artichokes!
3) I think moving away from hormone-injected livestock might be a good thing, though I don't understand what is bad about antibiotics
WF does carry and amazingly good selection of cheese and chocolate. I’d like to believe they are good for me but I know better.
I go to WF clones (Trader Joe’s mostly, Sunflower occasionally) because the food tastes good, and is often cheaper. All the “green” advertising around it I ignore, I really don’t care how many acres of rain forest are or are not destroyed for my food so long as it’s tasty.
Yet.
Nice piece. Could use some citation, though. Not because we don't trust you, but just because attribution gives cred.
I love the "Cargill speaks" one. WTF, hipster? WholeFood speaks?
There was a Whole Foods next to where I used to work in Portland and I loved getting lunch there. I got to the point of getting more of my food there, too. Some of the stuff can be quite tasty. It might be more expensive in some cases, but it’s a “whole” lot better (at least to my mouth it was...).
And boy! Did they ever have a cheese section, too. I like different cheeses from all over the world and they would have it, a great selection.
So, I wouldn’t be knocking a success story there...
Whole Foods’ organic products are probably less than 10% of their overall stock based on my personal experience shopping there.
However, I’ve found I can get basically the same stuff across the street at Trader Joe’s at a much cheaper price.
I like Trader Joe’s too. Unfortunately, we don’t have one near us.
I stop by there about once a week to purchase products otherwise not safe for me to eat when sold by "other chain stores".
What they do with the "organic" stuff is of no concern to me. I'm happy with a loaf of frozen glutenfree bread, or frozen gluten free buns. A box of highly overpriced crackers to eat along with well aged cheddar is a treat ~ but I get the cheddar at Safeway.
Depends on you what you want in a store I guess.
BTW, Safeway is now selling a frozen gluten free bread, and those Van's frozen gluten free waffles are to die for.
Trader Joe is owned by the same family that owns Aldi’s. It’s just the high priced spread.
Food procured locally does taste better.
Who can say that a tomato, picked in Mexico days before it would otherwise be ripe, packed in a reefer for days while it ripens, tastes better than a vine-ripened tomato grown in the town in which you live?
I've checked out the Whole Foods cheese cases and there's a lot of double and triple creams in there that kind of make it look like there's different stuff, but it's short on the aged end of things.
BTW, everybody carries that $22 a pound Australian 5 year old stuff these days ~ but we tried it and went back to our 2 year old Vermont white.
The Whole Foods goat cheese selection is identical to the Safeway selection and looks to be the same price. Trader Joe's is less ~ and sometimes they have hard goat cheese for less than $5 a pound (from France even).
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