Whole Foods Boycott Picking Up Steam

[PHIMG]

Post on OpenLeft.com by tremayne
Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 16:37
http://www.openleft.com/diary/14602/whole-foods-boycott-picking-up-steam


You can see my earlier post on this here but there have been several new developments. This all stems from a WSJ piece written by the CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods called "The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare" in which he argues for insurance industry deregulation and a shrinking of the Medicare program. Here are the new developments:

1. A newly formed Facebook group promoting the boycott will soon surpass one thousand members. Not bad for a few hours but please join and send to your friends/family.

2. I cross posted the original Open Left post at Daily Kos this morning and it sat atop the rec list for three hours, useful exposure.

3. The Austin American Statesman (hometown of Whole Foods headquarters) has run a piece on their business blog with a link to both the Open Left post and the Facebook group.

4. The subject "Whole Foods boycott" has been Twittered about 200 times today with links to the aforementioned sites.

Help keep the momentum going and join the Facebook group, send the stories to your own networks, Twitter if you got it. It's only been hours but if we can increase this by an order of magnitude or two it will get significant publicity and send a message to corporate America.

[ControlledDemolition]

1. K&R! Another anatomically correct term for 'Hole Foods' is 'Butt Foods'! n/t

[devilgrrl]

2. Here are a few decent links...

Whole Foods Market: What's wrong with Whole Foods?: http://michaelbluejay.com/misc/wholefoods.html

and a facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups.php#/group.php?gid=119099537379

[Mnemosyne]

7. I will never set foot there again -

"Whole Foods also asked shareholders to vote against a resolution asking Whole Foods to report about endocrine disruptors and other toxic chemicals in its products."

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"Whole Foods sold fish so toxic in mercury that one customer's blood levels had to be reported to the Center for Disease Control."

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"Slate also pointed out that Whole Foods has pictures and profiles of small organic farmers in their stores, but doesn't actually carry products from those farmers."


Enough said. Asshole lying hypocrites.

[abumbyanyothername]

3. Joined the Facebook group and invited others. nt

[myrna minx]

4. K&R n/t

[donheld]

5. k & R

[Cha]

6. Rec'D~

Thank you!

[Pithlet]

8. Thanks, just joined the Facebook group.