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Whole Foods to stop selling products made by inmates
http://www.latimes.com/ via A.P. ^ | 9/30/15

Posted on 10/01/2015 4:42:53 PM PDT by BBell

Whole Foods will stop selling products made using a prison labor program after a protest at one of its stores in Texas.

The company said the products should be out of its stores by April 2016, if not sooner. Whole Foods said it has sold tilapia, trout and goat cheese produced through a Colorado inmate program at some stores since at least 2011.

Michael Silverman, a Whole Foods spokesman, said the company had sourced the products because the program was a way to "help people get back on their feet and eventually become contributing members of society."

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Colorado; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: colorado; convicts; corruption; inmate; inmates; wholefoods
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To: katykelly

Exactly. I wonder how many of those inmates have aids, hepatitis and other diseases?


21 posted on 10/01/2015 5:07:14 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Larry Lucido
Never had tilapia or trout cheese.

They are probably really hard to milk. That's why they gave the job to prisoners, who have a lot of time on their hands.

22 posted on 10/01/2015 5:07:14 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: tumblindice

Whole Foods is where I walk through but can’t afford to buy anything.


23 posted on 10/01/2015 5:07:16 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: trisham

Sorry you mentioned that.

Look up Typhoid Mary.


24 posted on 10/01/2015 5:08:12 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: exDemMom

Scales of justice and all that.


25 posted on 10/01/2015 5:09:19 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: grania

Stop buying the stuff and throw the prisoners out of work. Yeah, that’s really gonna help those guys.


26 posted on 10/01/2015 5:09:46 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: BBell

What if it is a free range convict?


27 posted on 10/01/2015 5:10:26 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: trisham

Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.[1] She was twice forcibly isolated by public health authorities and died after a total of nearly three decades in isolation.


28 posted on 10/01/2015 5:10:49 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Hummingbird tongues and mouse milk ice cream, who can afford those delicacies?


29 posted on 10/01/2015 5:10:49 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Yes, exactly my concern.


30 posted on 10/01/2015 5:11:41 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MarvinStinson

OOOOOO ... K.


33 posted on 10/01/2015 5:19:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

Sorry for the out of control post.

Maybe Typhoid Mary’s spirit had something to do with that.


34 posted on 10/01/2015 5:21:17 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Hit Abuse and ask the mods to get rid of them.

Usually the best way to handle an unwanted post.


35 posted on 10/01/2015 5:24:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: BBell

Make the companies pay minimum wage, with most of the money going to help reimburse the cost of incarceration. That way it’s not unfair to competing businesses.


36 posted on 10/01/2015 5:27:05 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Grams A
Certainly much better to import it from China where we know ...

I'll take my chances with the prison labor.

37 posted on 10/01/2015 5:27:05 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: MarvinStinson

You should have sized the image down.


38 posted on 10/01/2015 5:27:07 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: VanShuyten

In response to the other comments, just replace “prisoners” and “convicts” with “Mexicans” and see if it changes how you feel about those tomatoes and broccoli down at the local supermarket.

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As I type, I have a jar of Welch’s Concord Grape Jelly in front of me. On the label, in large, bold print, are the words, “100% North American grown”.

The folks at Welch’s are well aware that many people, maybe even most people, are unaware that Mexico is also in “North America”, I’ve seen F.R. members who didn’t know that simple fact.


39 posted on 10/01/2015 5:30:33 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: trisham

if you knew what Tilapia ate, you wouldn’t ever eat farm raised tilapia....


40 posted on 10/01/2015 5:35:22 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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