Whole Foods

[beac]

I've hesitated to bring up the Whole Foods boycott (begun as a result of their CEO's op-ed on health care), but now it seems he's a climate change denier too:

One of the books on the list was “Heaven and Earth: Global Warming—the Missing Science,” a skeptical take on climate change. Mackey told me that he agrees with the book’s assertion that, as he put it, “no scientific consensus exists” regarding the causes of climate change; he added, with a candor you could call bold or reckless, that it would be a pity to allow “hysteria about global warming” to cause us “to raise taxes and increase regulation, and in turn lower our standard of living and lead to an increase in poverty.” One would imagine that, on this score, many of his customers, to say nothing of most climate scientists, might disagree. He also said, “Historically, prosperity tends to correlate to warmer temperatures.”


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7392308&mesg_id=7392308

If you weren't boycotting before, does this change your mind at all?


And yes, I realize one man isn't the whole corporation, but he continues to use his position as the head of the company to spew his right-wing rhetoric and they continue to let him do so. That, coupled with WF's often shady business practices, makes me unable to square shopping there.

Whole Foods has taken over (and ruined, IMO) many smaller natural food businesses and I can't help feeling that if WF was to go out of business, many smaller BETTER companies would be able to take its place.