Posted on 08/14/2009 6:43:37 AM PDT by conservativeinbflo.
Joshua has been taking the bus to his local Whole Foods in New York City every five days for the past two years. This week, he said he'll go elsewhere to fulfill his fresh vegetable and organic produce needs.
"I will never shop there again," vowed Joshua, a 45-year-old blogger, who asked that his last name not be published.
Like many of his fellow health food fanatics, Joshua said he will no longer patronize the store after learning about Whole Foods Market Inc.'s CEO John Mackey's views on health care reform, which were made public this week in an op-ed piece he wrote for The Wall Street Journal.
Michael Lent, another Whole Foods enthusiast in Long Beach, Calif., told ABCNews.com that he, too, will turn to other organic groceries for his weekly shopping list.
"I'm boycotting [Whole Foods] because all Americans need health care," said Lent, 33, who used to visit his local Whole Foods "several times a week."
"While Mackey is worried about health care and stimulus spending, he doesn't seem too worried about expensive wars and tax breaks for the wealthy and big businesses such as his own that contribute to the deficit," said Lent.
In his op-ed, "The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare," published Tuesday, Mackey criticized President Barack Obama's health care plan.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Johnny will a a whole lot of extra food money at the week!
Hmmm...I may actually start going to Whole Foods now. I bet a spend a helluva a lot more on food than the bitchy little bloggers in this piece.
No one but them has the right to an opinion. Free speech is not allowed, only liberal speak.
God forbid the guy should makes sense. This demonstrates clearly that for dye-in-the-wool liberals this isn’t really about health care at all.
I just love it when libs get their panties in a knot.
Whole foods is a little on the expensive side for me, but good for this CEO speaking the truth.
Brave man. He went against his customer base here. Hopefully, it helps knock some common sense into their brains about the real world.
Did this guy really open his recent op-ed with the Thatcher quote: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”? Love it. But won’t shop at his stores, or at any other “organic” shop; don’t trust ‘em. Like my old pappy sez, “Organic food? Lot more of it sold than is actually grown.”
Dumb move. Doesn't this guy know who his customer base is?
What a blow to the tofu industry! Probably a pathetic, twerp, geek, ACORN, eco-vegan. He proably ignores the diesal engines and fuel needed to get his manure covered lettuce to market.
If the vegan life is so good for ya’, why do you NEED healthcare.
Well I never noticed before, but there’s one not far from me. And I need a couple of deli plates for a party in a couple of weeks, I think I’ll give them a call!
A bunch of patchouli wearing, knee-jerk Liberals jerking their knees...
Yes, I loved his common-sense statements: “A whole lot of health problems are caused by over-indulgence’ or whatever he said. Might have to shop there. Altho the tattooed-lady/ pierced folks who work there are kind of creepy.
I like how the idiots quoted in the article blame "evil big business" for not paying enough taxes and contributing to the deficit. It is too bad such clueless morons are allowed to vote.
Actually, the stores should be safer as well since we'll no longer need to fear the bottle-cap and lid openers from the paranoic progressive wing of that crowd.
I became a fan of this Whole Foods CEO when he decided a salary for himself of $400,000 rather than many times that for which he could have opted.
But when I read that he liked to go down to his chicken pen of an evening with a glass of wine and watch the chickens....my opinion of him escalated to the outer limits.
I have chickens and enjoy watching their exchanges and antics, though without the glass of wine. LOL!
Me too, while I think organic food is just a gimmick, I’d shop there a few times just to make a point.
I’m sure that they’ll come back because it sounds like Whole Foods has the volume to have lower prices and a lot of variety while shopping at the health food store will drive you to the poor house.
“Mackey also called for a move toward “less government control and more individual empowerment” instead of “a massive new health care entitlement....”
I believe Mr Mackey is a fiscal Libertarian rather than the hippy social liberal that is quite common in Austin.
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