Attention shoppers!

[ksmith]

Whole Foods shoppers, that is. Their CEO has an op-ed in the WSJ a couple of days ago. it wasn't what I expected.

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That's because there isn't any. This "right" has never existed in America.

The rest is here.

By way of AmericaBlog.

I've shopped at Whole Foods once, several months ago. To tell the truth, I wasn't overly impressed.

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I hate hypocrisy of any kind, and playing the "wholesome, organic" card to make millions is right up there.

I stopped shopping at the main local natural-organic store when WF bought it out--just too expensive, and 'way too far away to justify the gas money. When I want that range of food now, I go to Sunflower Market or Trader Joe's, both of which are significantly closer and cheaper and, as far as I know, much less hypocritical at the corporate level. (Please don't let TJ's turn out to have evil overlords, too. I love my TJ's.)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

For me, a drive to Trader Joe's or WF is a six-of-one situation. They're both 20+ miles away.