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Eden Foods CEO: “I’M NOT IN YOUR BEDROOM. OBAMA IS IN YOUR BEDROOM”
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Posted on 04/19/2013 4:04:42 PM PDT by oneprolifewoman

I have a new hero: Eden Foods founder and CEO Michael Potter. Eden Foods is an organic company popular among the “crunchy, liberal crowd” which has filed suit against the Obama administration over the HHS mandate. Potter is getting slammed over it, thanks in part to a hit piece last week in Salon magazine which publicized the suit and framed Potter as a man with an anti-birth control agenda.

Don’t waste your time on the original article. Instead, enjoy the refreshing quotes from the no nonsense, plain-speaking Mr. Potter in Salon’s follow-up piece from Monday relating a telephone conversation between Potter and Salon writer Irin Carmen.

“I’ve got more interest in good quality long underwear than I have in birth control pills,” Potter told Carmen. Then he elaborated:

I don’t care if the federal government is telling me to buy my employees Jack Daniel’s or birth control. What gives them the right to tell me that I have to do that? That’s my issue, that’s what I object to, and that’s the beginning and end of the story….I’m not trying to get birth control out of Rite Aid or Wal-Mart, but don’t tell me I gotta pay for it. Rock on, M.P.!

When Carmen pressed Potter using the fallacy that “the mandate doesn’t cover abortion” but “only contraception,” Potter responded this way:

It’s a morass…I’m not an expert in anything. I’m not the pope. I’m in the food business. I’m qualified to have opinions about that and not issues that are purely women’s issues. I am qualified to have an opinion about what health insurance I pay for.

(Excerpt) Read more at frcblog.com ...


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I agree with the author of this article that Potter deserves our support. You can email websales@edenfoods.com and info@edenfoods.com if you want to let them know NOT everyone agrees with them about this.
1 posted on 04/19/2013 4:04:42 PM PDT by oneprolifewoman
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To: oneprolifewoman

This is a fabulous example of how the social wing and the libertine wing of the conservative movement can join together. I congratulate the FPC for publishing this and publicizing this, even though the CEO of Edens Foods hardly sounds like a social conservative warrior. This is the recipe folks!


2 posted on 04/19/2013 4:12:48 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: oneprolifewoman

Agree 100% with Potter. This is not a religious argument, it’s an argument over the power and jurisdiction of the fedguv. Do they or do they not have the power and jurisdiction to tell a private individual how to compensate an employee? I say no. Do they have the lower to tell a private company what services they must offer? I say no.


3 posted on 04/19/2013 5:15:52 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: oneprolifewoman

This CEO articulated the issue perfectly. Many seem more comfortable just addressing it from the religious perspective but I’ve always objected to the idea that the federal government can dictate what benefits a company will offer or not. It is bad enough that corporations and small businesses have been turned into virtual extensions of the federal government where tax collection etc are concerned but this kind of thing takes it far further. I’m not familiar with Eden Foods but I’ve become a regular customer of Wholefoods after their brave CEO spoke out and we frequent HobbyLobby so I’ll be checking out Eden Foods. We need to reward those companies that stand up for liberty.


4 posted on 04/19/2013 5:40:49 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: andyk

YEP. Rick Santorum, heed please......


5 posted on 04/19/2013 5:48:58 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks oneprolifewoman.


6 posted on 04/19/2013 6:07:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: oneprolifewoman

BTTT!!! I love their seasoning salt, Gomasio, and plan to find as many other products of theirs as I can. No soy though, shudders.

Dear Lord, please share your strength.
Tatt


7 posted on 04/19/2013 6:12:05 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: oneprolifewoman

I’m hardly part of the “liberal, crunchy crowd”, and I eat their products.


8 posted on 04/19/2013 6:42:17 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (Gingrich or bust! (5/7/12, I guess it's bust.))
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To: C. Edmund Wright; All
We know the CEO and everyone who started that company intimately.

Let's just say none of them have a conservative bone in their bodies, nor is this a particularly nice human being.

I applaud what he's saying here (I even know why he's saying it, but it's not because he's a conservative), but even Howard Zinn said one or two things that were correct.

9 posted on 04/19/2013 6:46:13 PM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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To: Lakeshark

Very interesting insight. Sorry to hear that’s the case, and whether he meant it or not, it is a road map for how socons and libertines can and should work together on issues....


10 posted on 04/19/2013 6:48:43 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
The green movement has suckered for leftist agitprop for a really long time. I just spoke with the ex partner who started that company a couple of weeks ago, and they still have no clue that Bambi isn't all in for their movement.

Perhaps Mr Potter is being squeezed with having more than 50 employees and is now having second thoughts, because he isn't the deep thinker that the CEO of Whole Foods is.

The greens are blinded by red, and on occasion blunder on to the truth.......which is likely what he has done......

11 posted on 04/19/2013 6:55:01 PM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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To: Lakeshark

It is shocking to learn that so much of it is naivete....maybe that’s why Potter was so angry and frustrated. Maybe he really is having a “come to Jesus” moment....


12 posted on 04/19/2013 6:58:01 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Maelstorm

Whole Foods carries a lot of Eden Foods products. One benefit is their canned foods do NOT have BPA linings.


13 posted on 04/19/2013 7:06:01 PM PDT by ELS
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Hints: Short tempered, volatile, shallow, head filled with New Age crapola.

I'd like to believe you're right, but have my doubts.

14 posted on 04/19/2013 7:08:03 PM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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To: ELS

I just saw that on the website. I ordered some directly anyway. Its absolutely crazy seeing some of the posts on the Eden Foods facebook. The Sandra Fluke Crowd are out like zombies to fresh meat. It looks like they are failing though.


15 posted on 04/19/2013 7:08:22 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: oneprolifewoman
The Feminist use to claim or say " Stay out of our bedrooms and keep off our bodies " .

And now this ? seems all to real and close to being Orwellian.
16 posted on 04/19/2013 7:11:58 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: thesearethetimes...
Eating Soy does strange things to men's hormones, at least that is what I have read.
17 posted on 04/19/2013 7:13:33 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: ELS

I won’t touch anything with gmo soy in it (90%) now thanks to Monsanto.
But I will defend this dope’s right not to follow bambi on this issue!


18 posted on 04/19/2013 7:23:42 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: acapesket

Many (all?) of Eden Foods products are organic which means no GMO anything.


19 posted on 04/19/2013 7:36:06 PM PDT by ELS
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To: C. Edmund Wright
I don’t care if the federal government is telling me to buy my employees Jack Daniel’s or birth control. What gives them the right to tell me that I have to do that? That’s my issue, that’s what I object to, and that’s the beginning and end of the story….I’m not trying to get birth control out of Rite Aid or Wal-Mart, but don’t tell me I gotta pay for it. Rock on, M.P.!

Easy to agree with the above...

20 posted on 04/19/2013 8:26:45 PM PDT by GOPJ (The screed of so-called journalists: 'If it doesn't fit, you must omit.' - - freeper Vigilanteman)
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