[Ccpg] Whole Foods In Santa Barbara

[bob banner]

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> --- On Wed, 8/19/09, lbsaltzman at aol.com <lbsaltzman at aol.com> wrote:
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> From: lbsaltzman at aol.com <lbsaltzman at aol.com>
> Subject: [transition-sb] Whole Foods In Santa Barbara
> To: sbperm2006 at googlegroups.com, sbfoodfuture at googlegroups.com, transition-sb at googlegroups.com 
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> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 5:07 PM
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> In October Whole Foods opens in Santa Barbara and will obviously  
> compete with another corporate owned "health food store", Lazy  
> Acres(a subsidiary of a corporation that is a subsidiary of  
> Alberton's) and discounter Trader Joe's.  While the store is being  
> built here in Santa Barbara, a national boycott is being organized  
> against Whole Foods because of CEO John Mackey's attack against any  
> kind of health insurance reform and any form of national health  
> insurance.   Mackey argues that a healthy diet would solve the  
> problem and the responsibility lies with us as individuals to take  
> care of our own health.  While I think a healthy diet would solve a  
> lot of health problems, I don't think that is an argument for not  
> having all American's covered by decent health insurance.  In my own  
> life I have to look no farther than a simple knee surgery, that   
> cured a painful problem. Without health insurance or the ability to  
> pay for the surgery, I would have suffered a lifetime of pain no  
> matter what my diet was.  Nor do I wish to penalize average  
> Americans who have had their health impaired by being duped into  
> buying the industrial food that is sold in most markets and  
> restaurants.
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> The Organic Consumer's Association has criticized Whole Foods on a  
> variety of issues.  The State of California has filed a lawsuit  
> against the corporation for selling body care and cleaning products  
> that contain carcinogenic substances.
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> I am not going to take a position on the boycott, I believe that is  
> an individual decision. I am sure for many people myself included it  
> will be convenient to use the chain stores, and that they will have  
> many useful products and organic food choices. But as the  
> corporations duke it out for our shopping dollar, consider how much  
> you want to spend at the corporate stores as opposed to spending  
> your money at the Isla Vista Coop, buying direct from local organic  
> farmers and farm stands, and trading homegrown produce with your  
> neighbors at the neighborhood exchanges springing up all over the  
> South Coast. The more we can do the latter, the more resilient we  
> make our local economy, and the fresher and healthier our food  
> choices will be.
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> Larry Saltzman
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> Articles critical of Whole Foods
> http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_12797.cfm
> http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/18/news/companies/wholefoods_mackey_boycott/?postversion=2009081817
> http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27613
> http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18493.cfm
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