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[Livingontheland] Whole Foods Market Faces Boycott Over Opposition to Public Option and Single Payer
- From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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- Subject: [Livingontheland] Whole Foods Market Faces Boycott Over Opposition to Public Option and Single Payer
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:55:45 -0600
Whole Foods Market Faces Boycott Over Opposition to Public Option and Single
Payer
Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey sets off a firestorm
(http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18860.cfm) of controversy
in a recent Wall Street Journal article, arguing against health care reform
and the so-called "public option." Mackey contends that the United States can
fix our healthcare crisis not by reining in insurance companies and improving
access to comprehensive healthcare and affordable organic food, but by
patronizing his overpriced WFM and further deregulating the insurance
industry. In fact, Mackey believes that healthcare is not a human right, but
a commodity that only the wealthy should have. Tens of thousands of organic
consumers and health care advocates have responded by calling for a boycott
of Whole Foods Markets.
Over fifteen thousand OCA members have contacted WFM in recent months, urging
the nation's largest retailer of organic products to increase organic food
access, implement comprehensive testing for GMOs in their private label
products and eliminate dangerous chemicals from their body care products. WFM
responded by bowing to OCA pressure and has promised to sell significantly
more organics in 2010. We having an impact!
Tell Whole Foods to support their stated mission of promoting organics,
health, justice, and sustainability at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27761
- [Livingontheland] Whole Foods Market Faces Boycott Over Opposition to Public Option and Single Payer, Tradingpost, 08/21/2009
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