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U.S. | Health, Housing, and Public ServicesWhole Foods CEO John Mackey Targets Health Care Reform In WSJ Editorial
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey penned an op-ed on health care reform in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal in which he pressed, amidst more standard conservative talking points, a "simple" solution. "Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat." More
The CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods has written a WSJ editorial attacking the still-in-the-works Obama health care plan in favor of less regulation on the insurance industry and downsizing Medicare. Here's one blogger's take:
Not very smart for a company that depends almost entirely on wealthy Democrats who are willing to pay five dollars for a six ounce carrot soda. Come on, you can do it, boycott them for at least a week and discover how much money you can save at Trader Joe's.
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Here's a thought: If you own a major supermarket chain that caters to a great deal of liberal-minded people with money, don't rail against the evils of health care reform in the Wall Street Journal.
Unfortunately, that advice comes a few hours too late for Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who did just that.
As a result of this misguided effort, it seems, his company's website has been fielding angry comments all afternoon, and has had to set up an online forum where customers can vent their frustrations, and, oh, call for a boycott!
Not seeing the "good for business" angle here.
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Mackey's piece should come as no real surprise. He's a Texas libertarian/conservative who is anti-union while paying his employees less than other supermarket chains, and who seems to get his jollies by making huge profits from selling overpriced organic products to gullible liberals.
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This op-ed by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on health care is getting folks all riled up. Fine, I'm with you. But why is this the first time you've considered boycotting Whole Foods?
Mackey has made it quite clear that he's anti-union: According to union activist Sheila Payne, he once said, "The union is like having herpes. It doesn't kill you, but it's unpleasant and inconvenient, and it stops a lot of people from becoming your lover." Um. Ok. He personally intervened in the attempt of a Wisconsin store to unionize, asking workers to instead "'expand into love." And, as this Texas Observer piece notes, Whole Foods passed out fliers against the United Farm Workers, and declined to sign on to a pledge endorsed by most of the other large grocery chains decrying conditions for strawberry pickers. More recently, Whole Foods was very much behind the push to kill EFCA. They, along with Starbucks and Costco, proposed a "third way," which, naturally, involved writing card check out of the legislation. After all, Mackey doesn't "feel things are worse off for labor today." Hey, Mackey, you're wrong. And, while we're at it, Mackey is one of the original sock puppeters. Between 1999 and 2006, Mackey went on message boards championing his store and deriding competitor Wild Oats (which, of course, Whole Foods took over in 2007). He was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and his own corporate board for the posts. And, heck, if you want to stay with the foodie angle on this one, I'd refer you to Michael Pollan, who, despite my other problems with him, long ago pointed out that the big-ag organic approach of Whole Foods was problematic. So, please, by all means, boycott Whole Foods. But shouldn't you have done that a while ago? |
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