Girlcott Whole Foods!

I'm probably behind the times but until today I never heard the word "girlcott" before. However, I support the idea, Whole heartedly.

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods (and a former socialist) has taken a huge amount of flak for daring not only to oppose Obamacare, but to say so in a WSJ Op-Ed. This has infuriated some of the health food aficionados who shop at Whole Foods, who have predictably gone absolutely ape. I guess they imagine that they have some particular right to be self righteous and morally indignant, because they act as if they have been personally betrayed. (I suppose they're so narcissistic as to imagine that the "health food" type of diet ought to be officially certified as another form of left-wing identity politics.)

As this TPM piece explains, what Mackey did is being treated as akin to heresy:

You would think someone building up a successful Green business from scratch, promoting vegetarian living, healthy foods, bringing it to new neighborhoods across the country would be something of a Progressive hero.

You'd be wrong.

Even before today, John Mackey had fallen out of favor with many progressives because as he notes, "he used to be a "democratic socialist" in college, but when he began a business and barely made money while being accused by workers of not paying them enough and customers of charging too high prices, he began to take a more capitalistic worldview and discovered the works of Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Friedman."

Well, today, Mackey has earned the scorn and ire of the Progressosphere by doing the one thing that leftists cannot tolerate - he expressed his opinion. Not just any opinion - one that disagreed with the common agreed upon wisdom of the left, which is that we need to reform health insurance this year or else, though we don't know exactly what's going to be in it but it won't be single payer or have a public option and Big Pharma contributions will be capped so the industry doesn't suffer too much and whatever else gets watered down in bill writing and in committee and in reconciliation.

John Stossel admires him as one of the few capitalists willing to stick up for capitalism.

I admire him too, and while I have never been much of a Whole Foods patron, I'm now planning to join the girlcott.

posted by Eric on 08.15.09 at 09:12 PM





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I can't protest because I have no place at which to stop shopping. But the next time I visit the child of mine who does live near a Whole Food store, I demand again, the crab dip. It's awesomely yummy regardless who you voted for.

Donna B.   ·  August 16, 2009 04:38 AM

Now I'm torn.
I live close to both a Whole Foods and a Balducci's.
Balducci's is a hoity-toity supermarket. You don't buy aluminum foil there, but you do buy Spanish, wild boar prosciutto, 8 kinds of brie, 4 kinds of camembert, 2 kinds of marscapone cheese, lamb, veal and assorted pork and chicken sausages and other, assorted, high-dollar but tasty stuff.

Now I'm gonna have to shop at Whole Foods and I hate veggies (To quote that eminent philosopher and foot in the butt-er, Red Forman, "That's not food, that's what food eats") and find the concept of "organic veggies" as being about stupid.

They better have good meat.

Anonymous   ·  August 16, 2009 09:37 AM

Oh, Whole Foods does have good meats - I go to the one in San Antonio when I want to splurge on something special. Also, their take-away prepared foods are to die for. Don't worry, Anon - it's all good. With luck, Whole Foods may even get more customers out of it, although, alas - they are very pricy. (Personally, for the organic and bulk staples, I rather prefer a local chain called Sun Harvest Farms: same sort of grocery goods, but not so expensive.)

Sgt. Mom   ·  August 16, 2009 09:45 AM

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