Since when has Whole Foods been synonymous with social progressiveness? People are getting upset about WF’s CEO John Mackey, who wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal criticizing Obama’s health care legislation. This is confusing for enlightened people who are sure that every intelligent person agrees with them about how necessary and beneficial universal health care is. But as far as I know Whole Foods does not make any claims to social progressiveness, rather they simply endorse organic and reasonably sustainable food and business practices. So Mackey is being perfectly consistent when he criticizes a health plan which is neither organic nor sustainable.
NB: boycotting Whole Foods because of the CEO’s conservative stance on health care reform must be the zenith of white-upper-middle-class smugness.