Boycott of Whole Foods Week 2

by: Curtis Abbey

Tue Aug 25, 2009 at 11:43:19 AM PDT

It's week two of the Whole Foods boycott, the Facebook boycott page has 28,157 members. It also now has a website called Whole Boycott Dot Com.

The boycott sprang up out of progressive resentment toward an article in the Wall Street Journal written by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. It's titled The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare.

Mackey claims that the Rupert Murdoch owned WSJ editors wrote that title. It contains the annoying right wing slogan Obamacare. Which is an ironic term since the President has asked for Congress to write the bill, and to consider all ideas. We didn't call it the Bushraq War even though he didn't consider opposing ideas.  

A Former Whole Foods Employee's View of Whole Foods

by: Jill Richardson

Sat Aug 15, 2009 at 11:57:30 AM PDT

I've been asked by several people to weigh in on Whole Foods (or WFM for short... the M stands for Market). I worked there for 5 months in 2007 and I wrote a chapter about it in my book, Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do To Fix It. So here's my take on it...