Whole Foods Protesters Miss the Salad Bar
Single Payer Action promised yesterday to picket Whole Foods stores in New York, Austin, and D.C., and today, picketing they are: Neatly, sweetly, and sweatily, making the lunch scene at 1440 P St. NW the most bucolic in the history of organic-food-store protests.
Holding up a piece of orange poster board three times as wide as she is that reads "Boycott Whole Foods," Carol Kramer is just waiting for Whole Foods CEO John Mackey to take it all back so that she can resume being a Whole Foods customer.
When asked if she misses the salad bar, Kramer makes a delighted face and then winces.
"I miss being in there," she says, nodding towards the door.
But single payer, or at least a public option, is more important to her than the salad bar, which she will not visit despite having driven all the way from Fredericksburg, Va.
Many of the picketers are former Whole Foods customers. And for a few of them, boycotting Mackey's stores has been a long time coming.
Adrienne Pine, a professor of anthropology at American University, admits that she's known about Mackey's "right-wing libertarianism" for a while now, but that his Wall Street Journal op-ed was "the straw that broke the camel's back," and the reason she switched from Whole Foods to co-ops and farmers' markets.
Pine came to the P St. location today to tell people that Whole Foods employees work under "very bad conditions" and that Mackey is a "notorious union buster" and a "key player in fighting the Employee Free Choice Act."
When pressed to name other bad conditions, Pine gives the same answer as United Food and Commercial Workers Executive Assistant to the President Mark Federici, whose crew is also handing out fliers: Mackey is bad for workers everywhere because he's anti-union and anti-health care.
Single Payer Action's Sam Husseini doesn't say much about unions, but he loves the idea of the U.S. modeling itself after and improving upon Canada's medical system.
"There are some problems [with Canada's system]," Husseini says, but "we're more technologically advanced than Canada and we can do it better."
Husseini can't name any improvements off the top of his head, and declines to comment on how an effective store boycott might affect low-level Whole Foods employees. Instead he refers Washington City Paper to Russell Mokhiber, the founder of Single Payer Action and the author of a viral essay which ends with this call for action: "Don't spend another penny at Whole Foods until John Mackey and his right wing friends are defeated. And single payer is enacted."
Mokhiber, dressed in all black, says that his efforts, among those of other Whole Foods protesters, have inspired "rightwingers" to start shopping at Whole Foods. He's fine with that.
"The CEO can say what he wants," Mokhiber says.
Protesters can boycott, and "we'll let the organic tortilla chips fall where they may," he adds with a grin, after which he admits that he just came up with that phrase this morning.
But it seems the guilt just isn't strong enough today. One young man, upon reading Russell's tract, exclaims, "Fuck yeah! Keep on with the health care stuff," and then makes a bee-line for the salad bar.
Update: We now have a video of interviews with the protesters.
Photo by Andrew Beaujon.
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2:47 pm
How can any editor send a reporter to cover a story knowing that the reporter thinks boycotts are wrong?
2:50 pm
Don't worry Jim.
Andrew Beaujon, who has no feelings about protests whatsoever, shot an entirely objective video. He'll post it as soon as he's done editing.
2:53 pm
Sorry, Riggs, you have zero credibility on this issue. It's amazing to me that your news organization would send someone with such an obvious bias to cover this as news. Shameful.
2:56 pm
What issue? It was a scene piece, Jim. I didn't posit any facts, I didn't cite any figures, I didn't quote any ringers. I simply talked to protesters, made observations, and typed off my notes.
But I'm glad that you're demanding accountability, and if you really feel that strongly that my scene piece from a protest was shameful, I encourage you to write my editors.
2:57 pm
It was a "scene piece" written by someone with an agenda.
3:01 pm
Riggs, I wish you had pressed the guy to give an example of how we're more technologically advanced than Canada.
3:03 pm
I thought it was funny...
3:05 pm
The protest was to raise awareness of a boycott which you are opposed to. In fact, you went so far as to say that boycotts are wrong and don’t work. Then you went to cover the protest.
If you have an editor that wants to argue that that’s good journalism, he or she can do it here for all to read.
3:20 pm
@Meat: I thought about asking him to explain his tech claim, but c'mon--it's so good as is!
4:12 pm
Stupid hippies. Jim is proof of their stupidity.
Jim, please don't shop there. I am shopping there more often and I don't want morons like you there.
4:18 pm
Poor Jim. Can't deal with the fact that someone doesn't share HIS agenda.
4:20 pm
Jim, fools like you (and you have counterparts on the right-wing) make mockery easy. Just state the facts or point the camera and watch the tantrums. No different than Leno's "Jaywalking".
4:28 pm
The protest was to raise awareness of a boycott which you are opposed to. In fact, you went so far as to say that boycotts are wrong and don’t work. Then you went to cover the protest.
If you have an editor that wants to argue that that’s good journalism, he or she can do it here for all to read.
This is absurd.
Glenn Greenwald was opposed to wireless wiretapping. And his journalistic work on wireless wiretapping was better than anyone else in the country's.
The notion that having a point of view makes for bad journalism is nonsense made up in journalism schools in the 1950's that has nearly killed journalism. The eras during which journalism thrived in the US were the eras in which every last journalist had an agenda and ran with it.
4:29 pm
Who cares about the owner's agendas or anti-union this or that when they have such a hit or miss meat and fish counter. Countless times I've been burned - all-bone short ribs - incompetent butchering, green pork shoulder (not salsa verde like green either shit heads) - selling product way past prime, foul stank rot U-16 shrimp on 'special'- simply greed. The list goes on. Let's complain about what a(e)fects us, nimrods. Oh and you want to talk mealy-ass tomatoes in the middle of August - they got those in spades too. Continue the graze sheeple.
4:40 pm
It is funny that the liberal and union endorsing left-wing types are surprised that progressive and libertarian (e.g. John Mackey) is not the same thing they thought they believed.
Still I don't get why they missed one of the central points of Mackey's WSJ essay regarding teaching people to cook and eat healthier to combat chronic health issues such as obesity as well as incentivized employer-based health and wellness programs. I wish my employer would be so thoughtful.
4:47 pm
Still I don’t get why they missed one of the central points of Mackey’s WSJ essay
Because as soon as Mackey said he had some different ideas about health care and didn't support the administration's plan, they stopped reading. The part you mentioned was at the bottom, and they didn't get that far.
4:48 pm
Brian, you make an excellent point about Greenwald. But Riggs is no Greenwald. And if Riggs and the editors at the City Paper no longer think it's important to aspire to do objective journalism, that's entirely up to them.
5:07 pm
Ha, good riddance to all who don't know a world where free-markets would do wonders. I've been a huge fan of Whole Foods because they provide a great service, but even more so now because of Mackey's switch from socialism to free-markets. Funny how those who don't understand call it right-wing, which is nowhere near, as the right-wing (Republicans) don't believe in free markets either. That's why there is no difference between Dem's and Rep's, they are all Statists. But thanks for posting, I'm going to head out to Whole Foods now to buy a week's worth of groceries and hopefully have the chance to laugh at idiots outside with signs like the guy above.
5:09 pm
To play devil's advocate here...
Why should we believe that Riggs is telling the truth about anything in this post? He voluntarily showed us this morning that he has an ideological aversion to people who stage boycotts. Knowing this, why should we trust that Riggs isn't fabricating all the unflattering details about the boycotters he includes in this post? He clearly has an ideological incentive to do so.
Now...
I am not - repeat, NOT - accusing Riggs of fabricating any details in this post or in any other post. That would be a serious crime in the journalism universe and I don't think Riggs would even dream of doing that.
All I'm saying is that when a journalist tips their hand like Riggs did this morning, it gives the appearance of a motive for journalistic impropriety. You need your readers to trust you, so it matters how they perceive you. The mere perception that you might be dishonest is a problem, even if there is no actual dishonesty.
5:21 pm
I have never shopped at a wholefoods before, but I now intend to. If liberals studied economics half as long as they made protest signs, they would understand how half baked their arguements are. VIVA Libertarians.
5:23 pm
@Dave That's a straw point.
Like Brian said, many of us trusted Greenwald on Bush, even though he openly despised him, and continue to trust him on wiretapping, even though he finds it inexcusable in almost every circumstance.
I take your comment about tipping my hand to mean that we can trust reporters who bleed blue or red only if they claim to write in black and white. Is that really how you feel? That so long as a journalist is private about his politics, he's explicitly more trustworthy than someone who puts it all on the table?
What does that make journalists who have nothing to hide? Potential unscrupulous liars? Potential exaggerators?
5:39 pm
Nice work, Riggs. Although it's possible you should keep your political leanings off the Internet if you're going to go out and do an objective scene piece thise nicely reported and written, that doesn't take away from the work itself. I, for one, think this is even print-worthy! Gotta go dust off the Selectric now...
5:44 pm
The point of this poorly written story was to marginalize the protestors boycotting Whole Foods. "Whole Foods Protestors Miss the Salad Bar"? This is straight from the Fox News/Washington Times playbook.
5:44 pm
My favorite libertarian pro-Whole Foods rants from Radley Balko:
http://www.theagitator.com/2009/08/15/whole-foods-2/
http://www.theagitator.com/2009/08/17/whole-foods-ctd/
5:50 pm
The point I was trying to make is that, fairly or unfairly, a journalist isn't judged solely on the content of his or her copy. Readers' perceptions are important. The most talented journalist in the world wouldn't be effective if their readers had reasonable cause to question their integrity. And I think you gave your readers cause to question your integrity this morning. Just my opinion, though.
But you make a valid point: shouldn't readers trust a journalist who's open about their biases more than one who hides their biases?
Here's my opinion on that:
No.
I am more trusting of journalists who at least strive for objectivity, knowing its purest form is impossible, rather than journalists who make no attempt.
Wasn't it Isaac Brock who said "It's been agreed the whole world stinks so no one's taking showers anymore?" That's not the mindset I want journalists to have.
(And yes, I know... a Modest Mouse quote really detracts from my credibility here. But it's applicable dammit!)
6:14 pm
I would like to point out that Adrienne Pine is not a professor at American University, she is a professor at American University in Cairo (which is not affiliated with The American University). There is a great difference between these two institutions, most notably the quality of faculty, as a graduate of The American University, I am proud to say that, Ms. Pine who grossly misstates the working conditions of employees at Whole Foods, is not nor hopefully ever will be a faculty member of such an esteemed institution of higher learning.
6:23 pm
"The point of this poorly written story was to marginalize the protestors boycotting Whole Foods."
No need. The moronic protesters do that themselves when they squawk: 'How DARE you question the almighty and wise Obama!'
6:43 pm
Who said that??
6:46 pm
@Ben According to Professor Pine, this is her first semester at American University in D.C.
6:55 pm
Wow! Anyone who argues that our "health care system" is fair and not manipulated by those who profit from the status quo is just plain wrong. And calling me or other like-minded people socialists, idiots, morons, or, even worse, "liberals", for working to improve health care reflects poorly on the name-callers. I'll debate this issue with any fair-minded person and try to ignore insults from simple-minded haters.
8:21 am
Health care is quite literally an issue of life and death to many people. Mackey, being super-rich and thus beyond any fears for his own or his family's health care, perhaps did not realize he was bringing his company out in opposition to what was the #1 issue in the hearts and minds of many of his customers. (Health problems such as food allergies are why some shoppers go to Whole Foods in the first place, for gluten-free and other health-related items.) The ordinary Whole Foods shopper can't use corporate power to command a special op ed column in the Wall Street Journal to publicize their viewpoint as Mackey can. Mackey's big money and corporate power gives him more ability to have his opinion heard. But, the ordinary Joe can certainly say, "Mackey has every right to speak and be heard...but he has no inherent right to the money in my wallet." And despite all the attacks on the ordinary Joe shopper that boycotting is 'stupid' - it does seem that it is for once getting the ordinary shopper's "pro-public-option in health care" opinion heard, too.
8:30 am
I'm interested in how Wemple would react if the Washington Post had reported this story the same way--by a reporter with an obvious bias.
9:36 am
There is no "free market" in healthcare. Most people who have health insurance don't pick their plan--their boss does. The astronomical and uncontrolled increase in insurance premiums swallowed up all or most of wage increases. People who lose their jobs usually lose their insurance as well. Also, even if there were a "free market," that's no guarantee the crisis would go away--it might even get worse. The "free market" on Wall St. directly led to the abuses and perverse incentives which caused the economic crash. Every other industrialized nation has a national health plan, and they all have better health outcomes while paying much less than we do per person. Time to wake up and smell the 21st (even the 20th) Century!
4:08 pm
do they sell organic soap there? My experience with liberal protestors is that they could certainly use some.
5:26 pm
Mike, you just want people to 'wake up and smell the socialism'. No thank you. Move to Canada or France so you can feel more comfortable.
There is not a free market in health care just like there wasn't and isn't a free market on Wall Street or in mortgages. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (both governmental entities) played a large part in the housing crisis. They along with their backers in Congress kept pushing for more houses to go to people who could not afford them. That is the root of this crisis: people who can't afford the mortgages they bought. It wasn't just poor people either, it was speculators and people buying second homes.
The answer is not more government stupidity, it is less.
6:48 pm
Riggs wrote a great story. Nothing he said could be more incriminating of the shallowness of the Whole Foods boycotters than the picture of the Cindy Sheehan wannabe. As if all that is stopping a single payer US health care system is the Whole Foods CEO? I think what really stands in the way is the wishes of a majority of voters and a majority of Congress. Oh well. There are worse hobbies than to join a protest.
6:48 pm
"There is no “free market” in healthcare."
Yes, and only dishonest people claim that there is.
Further, only illogical and irrational people claim that the solution to a 'crisis' created by government involvement can be solved by MORE GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT.
Nobody cares what 'every other nation' does. We care what works. The free market works. This is why all the insurance/health care companies, who are in bed primarily with the DEMOCRAT PARTY, are willing to go along with nationalization: they realize that if the government nationalizes health care they will be given a FULL monopoly, rather than the PARTIAL monopoly that federal regulations have already created for them. These companies fear a free market.
Which is what makes all your left-wing posturing so ridiculous. As always, you advocate government as the solution to a problem that government created. You decry 'special interests' funding people who want to stop this idiotic entitlement expansion, but don't care about the 'special interests' who think a government-granted and protected monopoly that only benefits them will be the best thing ever.
The free market is the only reform that is necessary. Remove the burdensome federal regulations on insurance. Allow purchase of insurance across state lines. Remove the regulations on medical care that require a full doctor to look at your acne or prescribe antibiotics, and bring back practitioners. Allow cash for services. Stop requiring insurance to provide fringe benefits like fertility treatments, so the average person can afford to purchase insurance that covers their needs. But most importantly, allow new health care and insurance companies to compete. Competition drives down prices and improves service. If you weren't so ideologically blinkered, you'd see this.
7:02 pm
AtheistConservative, you are absolutely right. If the government imposed the same regulations on retailing that they do on insurance companies every store would be required to sell only the most expensive models. How dare we allow customers to choose between cost and features? Next thing you know we'll have people wanting to have it "their way" at the fast food burger joint.
7:55 pm
What really weakens peoples' cases is when they refer incorrectly to the "Democrat Party," childishly clinging to the belief that mischaracterizing an opponent will weaken the opponent's arguments as well.
8:09 pm
I am not an idiot, a moron, or a socialist. I am smart, well eduated, thoughtful, and kind. I understand there are many govt laws and regulations (some good and some bad), all of which have been enacted by those we elect to represent us. That's democracy in action and it's the fundamental system upon which this country was founded.
With respect to our health care system, it's unfair and immoral. When someone like me works hard their whole life, loses health care coverage after a divorce, and then has his efforts to obtain private health insurance rejected by health insurers because of my age and a "preexisting condition" (not life-threatening), then I and my family live in fear that medical costs could easily bankrupt us if we become seriously injured or ill.
Fortunately, I live in Maryland which has a govt option similar to what's being proposed on a national level. In short, once I established a few years ago that I'd been rejected by private insurers, the state offered me a "govt option". So now I'm insured, and pay substantial monthly premiums through the state. But at least I'm insured.
My sister (a nurse) lives in Arizona where they have no comparable option. Because of her "preexisting condition", she too was unable to get insurance, and quite possibly will die early. And this scenario is played out accross the country, generating untold suffering. In these circumstances, a public option must be made available. Anything less is simply immoral and shameful. In large part, that's why I volunteered for Obama .... hoping to make a difference.
8:13 pm
"What really weakens peoples’ cases is when they refer incorrectly to the 'Democrat Party,'"
I love this type of argumentation. It's the same as reading five words of a well-written article, finding one statement with which you have a superficial agreement (everyone knows he likes ketchup, not mustard!) and then saying "I stopped reading there."
My point was not to demonize the Democrat Party or elevate the Republican, but the reality is that we have a two-party system and the Democrats are the ones pushing this 'reform'. The Democrats overwhelmingly support 'single payer' and 'public option'. The Democrats were the ones primarily behind the mortgage fiasco as well. And the Democrats, in both cases, received the greatest benefit from these boondoggles.
I don't think the Republican Party is infallible or will save us. I think logic will. But it is not 'mischaracterizing' to point out that the Democrats are in power and are the ones pushing this nonsense forward.
8:17 pm
"With respect to our health care system, it’s unfair and immoral."
Define 'fairness' and 'morality' in this situation.
"When someone like me works hard their whole life, loses health care coverage after a divorce, and then has his efforts to obtain private health insurance"
It amazes me that you set up the situation and don't see the obvious problem: HEALTH CARE COVERAGE that is so burdensome and costly that it must be tied to an income provider, and the need to obtain PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE to subsidize ongoing medical treatment.
These are only necessary because we do not have a free market. You are advocating for greater federal regulation to solve the problems created by federal regulation.
But, of course, you 'volunteered for Obama', which speaks volumes as to your capacity for rational thought.
8:50 pm
Unfair and immoral in this situation means not offering a public option to those who cannot obtain health care coverage under the current system ... and by doing nothing about the system worsening the suffering and hastening the deaths of millions of Americans. I'm all for "free markets", and if I believed your undefined free market solution would end this debacle, I'd be right behind you.
But there's no evidence that your proposal would work. I know that the public option works, however, because I've seen it firsthnd. And your Obama comment (ie, that the overwhelming numbers of people who supported him are incapable of rational thought) is just plain stupid.
9:41 pm
@AtheistConservative: It's the Democratic Party, not "the Democrat Party." Ever hear anyone talking about the "Republic Party"? No, you don't. The only people I've heard say "Democrat Party" are people who have no idea what blogs are, so congrats there on breakin' the mold, but otherwise please stop saying and writing "the Democrat Party." It's just plain wrong, sounds dim as all get out, and is grating at best. A helpful analogy: it's right up there with "chimeley" instead of chimney.
9:56 am
AC, you are the Lord of the Idiots.
And MY point was not to DEFEND the Democratic Party but to highlight the childishness of those (Ensign, O'Reilly, Limbaugh) who misname to opposition party.
12:58 pm
The employees of Whole Foods work under "very bad conditions?" I've seen their benefits package, and it's better than any place I've worked in the last quarter century--and I've worked for some very generous employers.
But I can understand why the protestors would make such patently false claims to those shopping at Whole Foods: anyone who can be suckered into buying overpriced food simply because it has the word "organic" attached to it will fall for anything.
5:36 pm
"Single Payer Action’s Sam Husseini doesn’t say much about unions, but he loves the idea of the U.S. modeling itself after and improving upon Canada’s medical system."
Bunch of DoDo's, here is what is happening in Canada you fools.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_x081502A.xml&show_article=1
Yea lets have the Obamacare system add 1.6 to the 9 trillion dollar deficit over the next ten years.
Of course you want us to believe there will be no rationing even though our credit rating is dropping like Obama is in the polls.
5:39 pm
Oh, and I will be shopping at the Denver West Whole Foods this week. If one loon gets in my face, it will be for the belt.
7:04 pm
Here why not picket Salon and Camille Paglia?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/town_halls/index.html
8:21 pm
Whole lotta hatin goin on round here. Several posts have been scary, written by angry, nasty, and seemingly dangerous people.
Get some mental health help, folks (if you're fortunate enough to have good health insurance). Or move to a country where differing views are resolved through violence. This is the USA, remember? We had a recent election where people freely voted for change. Deal with it in a civilized way.
8:58 pm
Hope you stay in Denver, bitch.
9:01 pm
Once we Communists take over DC, everyone will eat WF quality food for free at all of our grocery commissaries. Each & every citizens will be entitled to $100 per week in free food. It'll be like being on another planet, a planet with a universal cradle-to-grave welfare state with free health care & free universities & longer lifespans with better health along with higher per capita incomes than on Planet USA. & five weeks of vacation & a hundred holidays a month.
10:02 pm
@ Angry Al: I've been coaxing you to be more civil and politic in your postings, yet you said what I'd only been thinking in your comment #51. Have to confess -- cracked me up! Let's hit happy hour accross from WF one day. We can wear disguises just in case.
11:47 pm
See you across from WF with your butt buddy truth hurts soon. We'll get it straight BEATCH.
Truth Hurts, you don't like it too much when you're confronted do you?
You loons think the country is yours cus Obama won. Well enjoy your short lived experiment it won't last.
12:25 am
Healthfoodie: Let me know when you're coming to DC. I don't take your threats idly, so I'll act accordingly. You're a dangerous extremist. Hopefully, your posts will draw the attention of law enforcement authorities and they'll stop you before you kill someone. I'm pretty sure you've already committed felony threats. Your posts just might end up as evidence, especially if you keep it up. (I'm incorporating your posts re the WF video here).
12:54 am
Don't you people get it? You are pissing off most of America and we are sick and tired of this push towards communism. We won the cold war but now we are being attacked from within.
The CEO of Whole Foods put forth good ideas to improve the Health Care system and he has the right to his freedom of speech.
There are many posts on this site calling for the Unionization of this Company and that is an assault on free enterprise. The Employees of this company deserve better than you thugs destroying their peaceful work environment. It is your activism that is instigating the anger of the majority of Americans and your silly threats of my arrest for some imaginary crime is laughable. Take your Saul Alinsky handbook and shove it.
Snitches.
1:00 pm
I simply can't believe there are people who want the doctor's office to be more like the DMV. Seriously, I hate going to the doctor, so I avoid it. Actually, I hate going to the DMV even more though. As I see it, I HAVE to go to the DMV from time to time & it sucks ass. I can only see the government health plan forcing me to "get checked out" once a year by the doctor. That would suck ass just like the DMV. Plus, I imagine that the doctor would be grossly understaffed like the DMV & any time that I have to go there I will need to count on a half a day completely wasted.
The government can't do anything better than me, or the free markets. They certainly aren't going to do it cheaper. I can't think of anyone who likes Medicare. Its a giant pain in the ass.
Clearly all of this is opinion. I will give government run health care a shot if we end the practice of witholding income & payroll taxes from employees. If everyone had to write checks when the tax bill was due then people would realize how much every piece of entitlement actually costs. That would put a quick stop to all of this intrusion in the name of Obama!
Oh yeah, the financial "crisis" was caused by selective regulation and government intervention in the free market...not the free market. The next one will be worse because of the prescedent set with the "TARP" program. How does the government prevention of failure encourage conservative financial action by big (usually well connected cronies) financial instutions? I say bet big because the worst that can happen is that you don't loose
1:05 pm
Oh yeah, lets not forget that unions are always good for unions. They are only sometimes good for employees. I am wondering what mistreatment they are going through that justifies them giving up their freedoms as individual employees to join a union, other than to increase the union influence.
Give em a reason because the best I can tell there isn't one
1:10 pm
The license bureau is run better than the ER - shorter waits, better service. In states with proper funding, it takes 15 minutes; in DC, it still takes just an hour.
Try that in the ER some night.
1:19 pm
Only been to the ER once - Had a shot of morphine in me within 10 minutes. It was expensive as hell though. I doubt just because we substitute the government for unitedhealthcare it would get any cheaper. Give me some vested interest in how my money is spent & I will be damn sure to get the cheapest adequate care. leave it to a 3rd party, whomever it may be and I really don't have the time or motivation to care what they pay. That was July 9th 2008.
I don't explicitly avoid "whole paycheck" which is the term I use to affectionatly describe the high prices there. But I am much more likely to go to wegmans because there grocery prices are much more in line & they still have one hell of a prepaired meals section.
Whole foods has some bangin soup though
10:34 pm
Hey to all my new friends. Here is a breakdown of salaries of the union bosses in comparison to Mr. Mackey.
Who should be picketing who?
Don't you fools know that unions are the mafia?
You should care about the grass roots little guys out there and not thug unions.
Enjoy your dinners.
http://ow.ly/kSYN
5:22 pm
I've never seen more bone-headed posts in my life, with the possible exception of "TruthHurts" and "Brian". Don't the rest of you get that we are the only country in the so-called "modern" world that clings to employer-based healthcare, primarily because corporations have a stranglehold on our democracy, and that people in Britain and Canada are sick of hearing U.S. conservatve talking points about how crappy their healthcare system is?
And as far as Jim Mackey is concerned, well, he's been an embarrassment for Whole Foods for a while now, going back to 2007 when the FTC tried to block the Wild Oats merger because of "anti-competitive behavior". He's just another corporate shark who doesn't care about anything but the bottom line.