[SierraWasp]

Whole Foods has capitalized on three major "pricey" hoaxes as far as I'm concerned: 1 That organic is supposedly always better for human consumption in each and every instance, 2 That GMO's are a fiendish threat created by mad scientists working for insanely greedy corporations that could care less about any humans and 3 that there is nothing moral in working to provide healthy branded foods that are affordable for the working poor and lower income families, all while making huge mark-ups via these 3 hoaxes that allow their employee and executives to thrive in a truly relentless attitude of self-righteousness that is genuinely off- putting!!!

I'm just sayin... and lookin through a different facit of the same prism that you're lookin through.

[jonrick46]

You are so spot on that I felt a tremble on my flat screen. Whole Foods are scamming people who dwell in unscientific fantasy generated by modern day snake oil salesman.

[exDemMom]

Whole Foods has capitalized on three major "pricey" hoaxes as far as I'm concerned: 1 That organic is supposedly always better for human consumption in each and every instance, 2 That GMO's are a fiendish threat created by mad scientists working for insanely greedy corporations that could care less about any humans and 3 that there is nothing moral in working to provide healthy branded foods

Those beliefs have formed the core of a quasi-religious movement since at least the 1960s. People who fall for it will not listen to science or reason. Although it is a leftist movement based in new-age mysticism, a large number of conservatives are adherents; many of them post on this board.

My mother got caught up in it in the late 1960s. We used to eat normally before then, but once she discovered "health food," she took to serving some really interesting... stuff. She would buy carob bars, because some article in Prevention Magazine claimed that Carob tastes just like fine Dutch chocolate. Gag. I think a tenet of the food-religion is that if food tastes good, it is sinful to eat it.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Whole Foods has capitalized on three major "pricey" hoaxes as far as I'm concerned:

It does not take science to see and taste the difference between free ranging chicken that one can get at WF and the fat laden chicken raised in a cage one gets at a brand name supermarket "for the masses."