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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Why You Should Boycott Whole Foods
  • Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:00:50 -0600


Why You Should Boycott Whole Foods
http://www.counterpunch.org/
By Russell Mokhiber , CounterPunch. Posted August 14, 2009.

The company's CEO has just launched a major campaign to defeat a single payer
national health insurance system.


John Mackey is a right wing libertarian.

He’s a union buster.

He believes that corporations should not be criminally prosecuted for their
crimes.

He has just launched a campaign to defeat a single payer national health
insurance system.

And he’s the CEO of Whole Foods.

Primo hangout of liberal Democratic yuppies.

“We are all responsible for our own lives and our own health,” Mackey wrote
yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. “We should take that responsibility
very seriously and use our freedom to make wise lifestyle choices that will
protect our health. Doing so will enrich our lives and will help create a
vibrant and sustainable American society.”

Yes it will, John Mackey.

Yes it will.

I do take that responsibility very seriously.

I try to eat well.

And exercise regularly.

I also take my responsibility as a citizen seriously.

After all, Mr. Mackey, we are all responsible for our own civic lives and our
own civic health.

We should take that responsibility very seriously and use our freedom and
make wise civic and consumer choices that will protect our nation’s health.

Doing so will enrich our civic lives and help create a vibrant and
sustainable American society.

That’s why, today, we are calling on all American citizens to boycott Whole
Foods.

Why?

Because Mackey has launched a public campaign to defeat single payer national
health insurance.

This despite the bottom line reality that single payer is the only way to
both control health care costs and cover everyone.

As Dr. Marcia Angell says in today’s New York Times, “if you keep health care
in the hands of for-profit companies, you can increase coverage by putting
more money into the system, or control costs by decreasing coverage. But you
cannot do both unless you change the basic structure of the system.”

Mackey leads his Wall Street Journal diatribe against national health
insurance with a quote from one of his heroines – Margaret Thatcher: “The
problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s
money.”

And the problem with Mackey’s campaign is that it results in the deaths of 60
Americans every day due to lack of health insurance.

Mackey is responsible for these deaths as much as anyone.

And we are responsible for putting money into his Whole Food bank account so
that he can continue his campaign without resistance.

I know that this boycott of Whole Foods will upset many liberal Democrats.

Where will they buy their organic wines?

And cheeses?

And tofu?

There are options.

Your local health food co-op.

Farmers’ markets.

Community supported agriculture.

Other corporate chains like Trader Joe’s.

So, please, join the Single Payer Action Boycott of Whole Foods.

Don’t cross the picket lines.

Don’t spend another penny at Whole Foods until John Mackey and his right wing
friends are defeated.

And single payer is enacted.

Onward to single payer.





  • [Livingontheland] Why You Should Boycott Whole Foods, Tradingpost, 08/15/2009

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