Yet Another Reason Why I Love Shopping Whole Foods...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

This has created quite a stir. Open-minded people (or at least they claim to be except for if I express my opinion, and then I am a whole host of nasty things which makes me question the whole "open-minded" or "embrace diversity" aura certain people try to emanate) have condemned Whole Foods and its CEO...vowing to boycott. While they have their right to boycott and voice their disgust with Mackey (Whole Foods CEO), it seems they have revealed their hypocrisy. I know of a number of folks who shopped there because of the "green" image WFM portrays and policies they have...now that the CEO expresses a different opinion on health-care, it seems like these environmentally concerned citizens have decided Wal Mart and other grocery stores are now better. It is as if these folks are screaming "SCREW THE ENVIRONMENT! YOU ARE DEAD TO ME WHOLE FOODS!"

Now, that makes me want to shop there all the more.

My boycotts have never gone very well. No matter how hard I try, I cannot boycott fast food. French fries, while truly evil incarnate, are simply too tempting for me to forswear. (Although I do boycott KFC (for like the last 20 years) and McDonald's (at the moment...icky mcnuggets.))

My boycott of California wines...well, it started because I was a wine joiner...I wanted to support local wineries when I lived in Washington but fizzled when I developed a taste for Cakebread Cabs. I moved on to boycott French wines, in part because ils sont francais, oui? Also, I tried a wine that smelled like smelly feet. Then, my taste buds prevailed, and my need for exceptional cabs, Bordeaux, and Burgundies overrode any desire to stick it to "the man" or "le monsieur."

Alas, my boycott to not buy Citgo gas still holds strong. I am not going to pay a cent if I can avoid it to "el hombre" (aka Ugo Chavez) and while I made a bold attempt to not by things Made in China...having a child made that one impossible. Next time you go to Target, take a look at where your purchases are made...scary!

My Wal-Mart boycott has been re-instated. It originally came about when on Sundays in Del Rio, TX, the Wal-Mart was flooded by folks coming over the border. I could not get anyone to speak English to me when I needed assistance, so they annoyed me. I came back only to have them act like Scrooges when Wii were hard to come by...ordered one on-line only to have them short-fall it (even though it was shown as "in stock.") But, their recent support of "health care reform" (I still cringe at that term since there seems to be little reform going on...) because it will allow Wal Mart to avoid paying big bucks to provide insurance to their employees. Every time I hear their radio commercial calling for the support of health care "reform", I turn the station and remind myself not to shop there.

And have you looked at where most things in Wal Mart are made??? Whatever happened to Sam Walton's "Made in America"? Oh yeah...we don't make anything anymore...sigh.