Whole Foods Boycott
I have to confess I’d never even heard of Whole Foods until I watched the last season of Top Chef. That’s another reality show with cheffish people who can take a box of ingredients and turn it into a meal. Not being one who really enjoys spending time in the kitchen, I’m amazed at what these people can do. It’s not for me.
That show apparently has a deal with Whole Foods, and at one point, I finally googled it, learning that it sells things like whole grains and organic produce and lots of different kinds of meat and stuff. The only one on Long Island is practically in Queens. It’s kind of odd that the eastern tip of the island is filled with Christie Brinkleys who protest nuclear plants but don’t want windmills off their shores (or was that Ted Kennedy?), and yet there is no Whole Foods. It seems like that would be a perfect fit.
Except you’ve all been so PWNED, and I just LOVE when people are taken on a ride. LOVE IT.
Massive fail for all you folks who shopped Whole Foods thinking it was a big happy family of people yearning to live on a commune and make babies in the flowery van.
The CEO is a friggin LIBERTARIAN!
HUGE PWN.
So boycott your heart out, but bet you go back. Because this dude knew what he was doing and you got sucked in.
Just to be clear: I’m not a libertarian, although I appreciate some of their views on things like drugs, porn and prostitutes. I disagree in that I believe there IS a role for government with respect to roads and libraries, art funding, and so on. Oh, I’m in the MIDDLE again.
I hate being a moderate so much, because it goes against my need to be freakish, but sometimes middle of the road, while boring, makes so much more sense.
Oh, and get this: I’m an avid organic gardener myself. I haven’t used a non-organic chemical in over three (four? I’ve lost count now) years, and I even shun certain organic-approved products because they hurt the bees. I like the bees.
But…I don’t buy organic unless I’m at the farmer’s market. And there I do because a particular husband-wife team IS organic and I just heart their produce. They also have lambs, but you have to buy an entire lamb. That’s too much MEAT.
I wonder how many heads exploded when they found out the CEO was not a fellow super lib, and was the worst of the worst: a libertarian. God I wish I could have seen that.
FAIL.
August 26th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Back in 2008, this Whole Foods, CEO John Mackey (how old is this kid?), was caught posting negative comments (trash talk) about a competitor on Yahoo Finance message boards in an effort to push down the stock price. So now I am suppose to take this loser seriously? Please, snore, snore.
It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people (honestly where can they go with a pre-condition). And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.
How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a “lynch mob” advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types AKA “screamers” are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Well, I’ll be the first to admit I know very little about this guy. I find it interesting that he allegedly posted crap on the Yahoo finance boards…that seems to be a thing with people who play with money. I know of another guy who has a billion names, owned stock in a bad medical company, and spent day and night trashing people who were there. I just find it all kind of weird.
Just a correction: Medicaid is run by the state, and it depends on your state the kind of coverage (and quality) you get. Not surprisingly, states with higher taxes have better Medicaid coverage.
Here’s the real bottom line for me why I would prefer working with a for-profit company over the feds:
You can shame the hell out of a company, and since they worry about negative PR and bottom lines, they tend to cave. I can give you so many examples, as this is part of what I do. (Mental health activism)
I have identical situations all the time between corporate and government. Corporate in 100 percent of the cases I’ve worked on has given in and done the right thing, because when I get loud, I bring in the troops and the media. They can’t take it.
Government doesn’t give in. They’re bureaucrats, and could care less if you’re picketing outside, or the Washington Post is writing crap about them. In most cases, the government did not reverse its decision, and that applies to cases in Canada as well.
I’m no fan of insurance companies, but I’ll tell you, the dollar works wonders in shutting their fat asses down. The dollar in government only works when you’re paying someone illegally on the side. Then it works pretty well.