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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for the Left, it now turns out that John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, is a crazed ignorant Neanderthal who doesn't believe in sustainable development or climate change! Wails change.org (which believes only in change in a liberal direction):
Whole Foods Market has long dominated the natural and organic food scene, and most liberals who shop there believe they're putting their money where their mouth is. But the grocery's CEO, John Mackey, has used the bully pulpit the store's success has provided to oppose first labor organizing, then health care reform, and now to deny human-caused climate change.
Mackey's Wall Street Journal op-ed eschewing health care reform made waves this summer, spurring protests and a Facebook group calling for a boycott. But now Mackey has gone a step further, telling the New Yorker that he thinks the science on climate change is still unsettled.
Mackey, a libertarian, echoes a familiar conservative talking point when says he worries that climate "hysteria" will lead the government "to raise taxes and increase regulation, and in turn lower our standard of living and lead to an increase in poverty." But he goes even further, hypothesizing that warm temperatures cause prosperity -- instead of, you know, the opposite.
How can someone who sells organic food have an independent mind and believe differently than the liberal conventional wisdom? The horror! It's time for a boycott!
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Pete| 1.10.10 @ 3:41PM
This is the greatest thing ever...the gift that keeps on giving. I may just brave the stench and armpit hair to show my support.
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Eric Cartman| 1.10.10 @ 6:31PM
Bob must have a chart for this somewhere.
victor| 1.10.10 @ 6:54PM
A little bit behind the curve, are we?
Bean sprouts and tofu are good for the Right side of your brain, don't you know?
Not to mention couscous and free range chicken.
We have two within ten minutes or so, one small one and one super store.
The hoity-toitys and ex-hippeyes I can take or leave, but the store is fantastic.
I bet Toddard Liberal Reader both go there.
zombyboy| 1.10.10 @ 7:52PM
The strange thing to me is the immense sense of betrayal that many on the left seemed to feel when they realized that Mackey doesn't walk in lock-step with their political opinions. It was as if they had thought of Whole Foods as "theirs"--a refuge from those neocons and paleocons who would surely never imagine shopping at the store.
It was a ridiculous assumption on their part, but the stench of victimization that comes from them whenever he editorializes is pretty fun stuff.
Personally, I shop there and enjoy the selection of stuff that they carry that you don't find on most stores. But I never shopped there because I thought of myself as furthering some cause with my purchases---I'm just picking up the groceries.
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Don L| 1.11.10 @ 6:14AM
Isn't this the store started by the Aldi people?
Why are we surprised that a capitalist is willing to speak the truth about a planned leftist movement designed to destroy capitalism and freedom.
stephanie| 1.11.10 @ 7:45AM
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Urp | 1.11.10 @ 9:43AM
I hope every REM-listening, Late-Model-Volvo and/or Prius-driving hipster chick with ugly clothes and granny glasses are all choking on their organic trail mix while tending their rat-infested public gardens in Dupont Circle with organic coffee grounds from Starbucks, home of the $4.99 soy latte. She and her "sensitive new age guy" boyfriend (or SNAG, as we used to call them)
can calm themselves drinking organic wine from a country they can't pronounce in their tiny studio apartment overlooking the dumpsters while listening to NPR and lighting some beeswax candles, burning some incense and re-visiting their Enya CD collection. (Yeah, we love OUR money and OUR freedom, but everyone else must conform and redistribute. Those damn dirty greedy CEO's!!! I'm chanting as we speak!)
bullwhacker| 1.11.10 @ 11:29AM
There you go again, with them negative waves...ruff! ruff! (see Kelly's Heroes)
juheesus_speaks_perl!| 1.11.10 @ 12:39PM
The Aldi's didn't start Whole Foods. There are two Aldi brothers active in the U.S. One is making a go of it with Aldi's stores, the other owns Trader Joe's Markets.
Both of them make Walmart's business practices look like a socialist utopia.
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john| 9.5.10 @ 1:14PM
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Lee Schneider| 9.23.10 @ 5:07PM
Mackey is certainly his own man. Gotta respect that, even if I don't agree with him.
Air Max 93| 5.22.11 @ 11:00AM
care reform, and now to deny human-caused climate change.