[Sosfbay-discuss] whole foods boycott side effects

[fred]

Thanks for your interesting observations and thoughts, Jim. 

Fred

Jim Doyle wrote:
> asdfadf
>
> John Mackey’s views on health care, much as I disagree with them, will 
> not prevent
> me from shopping at Whole Foods.
>
> I can understand why people would want to boycott,
> but it’s important to play out the hypothetical consequences of a 
> successful boycott.
>
> Whole Foods is not perfect, however if they were to disappear, the cause 
> of improving
> Americans’ health by building an alternative food system, based on more 
> fresh food,
> pastured and humanely raised meats and sustainable agriculture, would 
> suffer.
>
> I happen to believe health care reform has the potential to drive big 
> changes in the food system,
> and to enlist the health care industry in the fight to reform 
> agriculture. How? Because if
> health insurers can no longer pick and choose their clients, and throw 
> sick people out,
> they will develop a much stronger interest in prevention, which is to 
> say, in changing the
> way America feeds itself.
>
> When health insurers realize they will make thousands more in profits 
> for every case of
> type II diabetes they can prevent, they will develop a strong interest 
> in things like corn
> subsidies, local food systems, farmer’s markets, school lunch, public 
> health
> campaigns about soda, etc.
>
> So Mackey is wrong on health care, but Whole Foods is often right
> about food, and their support for the farmers matters more to me than 
> the political views of their
> founder. I haven’t examined the political views of all the retailers who 
> feed me, but I can imagine
> having a lot of eating problems if I make them a litmus test.
>
> source: http://www.newmajority.com/a-reply-from-michael-pollan
>
>
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