Posted on 08/14/2009 10:08:31 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Joshua has been taking the bus to his local Whole Foods in New York City every five days for the past two years. This week, he said he'll go elsewhere to fulfill his fresh vegetable and organic produce needs.
"I will never shop there again," vowed Joshua, a 45-year-old blogger, who asked that his last name not be published.
Like many of his fellow health food fanatics, Joshua said he will no longer patronize the store after learning about Whole Foods Market Inc.'s CEO John Mackey's views on health care reform, which were made public this week in an op-ed piece he wrote for The Wall Street Journal.
Michael Lent, another Whole Foods enthusiast in Long Beach, Calif., told ABCNews.com that he, too, will turn to other organic groceries for his weekly shopping list.
"I'm boycotting [Whole Foods] because all Americans need health care," said Lent, 33, who used to visit his local Whole Foods "several times a week."
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I agree about organic meats usually tasting better, though free range chicken is a little too gamey for me. My previous posts refered just to fruits and veggies. And, IMO, the organic fruits and veggies look sickly and underdeveloped compared to non-organic choices.
Fine. I'll pick up his slack.
Shove it, Hussein cultists.
Yes. I want high-deductible, catastrophic coverage and a HSA. I want choice and competition in insurance providers.
I don’t want to pay for someone else to have coverage for obesity, abortion, accupuncture, schwing-meds, or hangnail.
Not wanting toxic pesticides on your food is NOT a sham. For that matter, not wanting growth hormone in your meat and dairy isn't either. It's called choice, Whole Foods, among others, provides that choice. There's a reason main stream grocery stores have an organic section and many farmers are moving back to toxic free (organic) agriculture.
For those who think Whole Foods is too expensive, I did a price comparison yesterday of shelf items I buy there with a mainstream store and there was no difference FWIW. The difference is that at Whole Foods, I can buy in bulk and not pay for marketing, and Whole Foods has a discount brand, called 365. But hey, there's always Trader Joe's, if you're lucky to have one.
Trying to convince any “liberal” or “progressive” of anything is a daunting if not impossible task. They all seem totally inured, if not outright hostile to anything rational, reasonable or logical.
I'm losing friends and simply don't want to talk with a lot of former “friends” or acquaintances.
I don't think it's just me. I think it's happening all over the country to lots and lots of people.
The divide is vast and deep It almost seems like the denouement of America and Western civilization to me.
The left and all the “peace” loving “liberal” hippie scum are really a bunch of self-righteous, intolerant, hypocritical fascists aren’t they all?
I do too. I am especially with you on the olive oil and the pasta. Not to mention the paper towels, tooth paste, etc., and I prefer a bakery for my bread. I’m not impressed with their baked goods. But at my Whole Foods, I see more people with the basket doing a week’s worth. Can’t imagine what their grocery bill is like.
“People go out of their way to buy produce that has no significant nutritional advantage”
Got that right! 3 minutes from my house is an Aldi, ocean fish and fruit. 10 minutes away is a Chinese grocery for vegetables. Local Farmer’s market is 15 minutes away.
‘I’m losing friends and simply don’t want to talk with a lot of former “friends” or acquaintances.’
I hear ya. I just deleted over 1/2 of my Facebook ‘friends’ because I got sick of reading their pro-Zero, anti-Palin nonsense. I’ve known some of these people from 30 years ago. And, good riddance. I’d rather chat on FR and enjoy the discourse than bite my tounge around people who look at me as someone ‘less than them’.
Good post. I'm a customer - not weekly, but once a month or so. And, they just have superior quality products compared to my local Kroger. And, I'll admit it. I like good food - it's the one thing me and Obama have in common. Arugula? Love it. Kobe beef? Gotta have it, can't afford it. Sierra Pale Ale over Bud Light? No doubt.
Is Whole Foods more expensive? Maybe. But, I'm not buying the same products at Whole Foods as I'm buying at Kroger, so it's hard to tell. As you point out, I'm guessing that on like products, they're close to equally priced.
And, you make a great point about choice. It's nice to have a Whole Foods alternative. I don't necessarily want my government telling me what I can and can't buy, but I do appreciate the option of deciding for myself. And, Whole Foods gives me that option.
Catch post #52 over on this thread.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2315917/posts
A moot point, because neither of us will spend the money to test you, but I would venture to guess that you, in a series of properly-administered, double-blind taste tests, could not consistently, repeatedly differentiate between identically-prepared grass fed, free ranging beef and grocery-store bought grain-fed, pen-raised beef. Like I said, there’ll be no comparison, because neither of us is willing to pay for the testing, but, really...
The Food Lion up the road from me here in Nifongville is borderline scary. The prices aren’t that cheap, the service is rude, the place is dumpy, and maybe half of the clientele at any given time speaks English, maximum. I figure, any supermarket that has an armed, uniformed security guard on-premises in the middle of the day is one I’d rather give a pass if I can.
We do the bulk of our shopping at the local Super Target and fill in the gaps at Harris Teeter, with occasional splurge trips to the State Farmers’ Market down in Raleigh.
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I’m also thinking of “deactivating” my FB account. The whole thing seems very narcissistic and trivial. I figure that many of the frequent posters must have no life or are very lonely.
And all this “communicating” takes a lot of time, thought and effort.
And it’s not like I’m ever going to convince any “liberal” or Dim Dhim to change their stripes or thoughts or lifestyle. They are “true believers” devoid of any capacity to think pragmatically.
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