Boycott Whole Foods

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, wrote an op-ed piece this week for the Wall Street Journal giving his "personal" opinion about health insurance reform. It comes right out of the conservative (Republican) playbook and calls Obama supporters "socialists" and the proposed reform an "entitlement." It looks like Mr. Mackey has forgotten that most of the people who shop at Whole Foods are liberal-minded yuppies, who now need to be aware of Mr. Mackey's personal agenda. He is a rich anti-union corporatist who got that way because we willingly pay for his overpriced food. No more! This is the same guy who, between 1999 and 2006, went on message boards championing his store and deriding his competitor Wild Oats (which Whole Foods took over in 2007). He was investigated by the SEC and his own corporate board for these posts. Now he's waged another campaign to defeat health insurance reform. I am going to boycott Whole Foods, and I urge others to do the same. Corporatists only understand profits. Let's decrease his. There are other places to shop.