[Sosfbay-discuss] whole foods boycott side effects

[Caroline Yacoub]

How many of us know where the owners of all the businesses we patronize stand on the health care issue?  Do we know about the owner of the Jamaican restaurant where we are considering meeting with San Mateo? If Whole Foods were the only source of compostable plates and eating utensils. would that mean we couldn't have another Food 4 Thought event? If Congress passes a health bill without Single Payer or even a public option, can we go back to Whole Foods? For me, there's so much gray in this issue and so little black and white that I will continue patronizing Whole Foods just about as often as I always have--which is about once every three months, because it's so bleeping expensive.
Caroline

--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Cameron L. Spitzer <cls at truffula.sj.ca.us> wrote:


From: Cameron L. Spitzer <cls at truffula.sj.ca.us>
Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] whole foods boycott side effects
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 9:20 AM


>From: Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org>
>Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:15:58 -0700
>To: Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
>X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1)
>Cc: sosfbay discussion group <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] whole foods boycott side effects

>Jim Doyle's [sic] rationale for continuing to shop at Whole Foods, much as  =
>I agree with his logic, will NOT keep me from boycotting Whole Foods.
>I am quite offended by the CEO's arrogance in proclaiming that a good  =
>Andrea

Nader has argued if you were serious about boycotting evildoers
you'd have to withdraw from the modern economy.  I think it's
a matter of degree.  You should withdraw from the parts that
offend you most.
I also think it's a mistake to think of Mackey as in control
of Whole Foods and its behaviors.  The situations in food retailing
and antitrust non-enforcement demanded that one company become
"the Walmart of organic groceries."  There was a strong vacuum from
that empty niche in the economy.  Whole Foods just happened to
get there first and Mackey just happened to be CEO.


>On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Jim Doyle wrote:

>> asdfadf
>>
>> John Mackey=92s views on health care, much as I disagree with them, will
>> not prevent
>> me from shopping at Whole Foods.

I believe the quote (below) by Jim is from Michael Pallan.
He has a point.  Insurance companies broke the unanimous
denialism among large corporations that the current climate change
is manmade.
Chink in the armor, whatever that means.

>>
>> 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=92s markets, school lunch, public
>> health
>> campaigns about soda, etc



Cameron

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