Why such little support for Whole Foods?

[Arklatex]

Two thumbs up to heirloom fooods!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Who doesn't support Whole Foods? Maybe Wild Oats former management and any shareholders who lost money...

Whole Foods CEO’s anonymous online life
Postings on financial forums attacked a rival company trying to buy

Whole Foods CEO's weird online life
July 11: John Mackey used a pseudonym on financial message boards to bash rival Wild Oats as a bad business not worth its stock price. He’s now making a move to buy it. Illegal? Unethical? "On the Money's" Brian Schactman reports.

DALLAS - The chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc. wrote anonymous online attacks against a smaller rival and questioned why anyone would buy its stock, before Whole Foods announced an offer to buy the other company this year.

The postings on Internet financial forums, made under the name “rahodeb,” said Wild Oats Markets Inc. stock was overpriced. The statements predicted the company would fall into bankruptcy and then be sold after its stock fell below $5 per share.

In February, Whole Foods announced it would buy Wild Oats for about $565 million, or $18.50 per share.

The company acknowledged that the postings by “rahodeb” were written by CEO John Mackey.

 

[james1906]

I don't know of anyone who shops at Whole Foods that isn't living off their wealthy parents. I've never been to one, and for some odd reason there isn't one near me.

 

[TCE]

I don't know of anyone who shops at Whole Foods that isn't living off their wealthy parents. I've never been to one, and for some odd reason there isn't one near me.

Now you do.

Also, to whoever commented saying that they tried a sandwich from Whole Foods one time and it was bad. Please note that there are no organic items from the freshly made portion of Whole Foods. In addition, most of that food is not sustainable in any way.

And, just for the record, the word "natural" means nothing unless it is placed upon meat or a meat derivative. Otherwise it is a marketing ploy that legally means nothing. It is only used to deceive consumers or to dumb down the entire movement to the average Joe.

Where I'm from, and I live and breathe health/organic, the word "natural" is meaningless.

 

[Liberty Star]

Because the organic food movement is bullshit?

I think there is more bullshit in food that comes from cows injected with too many hormones LOL

Whole wheat bread is way better than white bread.

 

[specsaregood]

I don't know of anyone who shops at Whole Foods that isn't living off their wealthy parents. I've never been to one, and for some odd reason there isn't one near me.

Uhm, now you do. I work hard for my money and I'd rather not spend it on crappy food. I especially like their coffee selection.

 

[TCE]

Uhm, now you do. I work hard for my money and I'd rather not spend it on crappy food. I especially like their coffee selection.

Not only that, but if a person keeps their budget in order, the move to organic isn't as outrageous as it seems. I actually spend a lot less than I used to.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

I can tolerate pesticides, but GMO foods disturb me greatly, anyone know how to tell which foods are GMO anyway? I've never seen then marked, and they should be.

 

[james1906]

Not only that, but if a person keeps their budget in order, the move to organic isn't as outrageous as it seems. I actually spend a lot less than I used to.

I'll shop at HEB Woodlands Market (Similar to Whole Foods), and my wallet gets drained there.

 

[TCE]

I can tolerate pesticides, but GMO foods disturb me greatly, anyone know how to tell which foods are GMO anyway? I've never seen then marked, and they should be.

There is no labeling for genetically modified foods. The only way to know for sure is if it is organic. Organic ingredients cannot be genetically modified. HOWEVER, it helps to know what is modified the most. Avoid non-organic corn and soy. Sugar is also on the top ten, but those are the two big foods to avoid. I read somewhere that around 80 percent of all soy is now GM. Be wary of organic foods containing non-organic soy lecithin, as it can be GM.

James: It's all about budgeting. Farmer's markets help keep the cost down, so does cooking. Processed foods, especially the meals/frozen dinners, are the most outrageously priced of any organic food item. Price examples?

 

[specsaregood]

There is no labeling for genetically modified foods. The only way to know for sure is if it is organic. Organic ingredients cannot be genetically modified.

That is not true, I posted in a previous comment about it. Currently a GMO item can be labeled/certified "organic". There has been a push to change this; but it has not been changed yet.

 

[TCE]

That is not true, I posted in a previous comment about it. Currently a GMO item can be labeled/certified "organic". There has been a push to change this; but it has not been changed yet.

Link please.

 

[axiomata]

Did you not see my post? Your argument is flawed. Economies of scale come into the perception of value. People like me and jennifer are electing to ignore the temporary gains in production in exchange for a more secure, smaller food system.

EDIT: And, the dollar spent locally is not being thrown down a fucking oil well in Saudi Arabia. Just because we're not robots looking for the best deal doesn't mean we're ignorant, quite the opposite actually.

There's an apocryphal story staring Mises and Wilhelm Ropke (a man whose books are great ones to recommend to intelligent modern liberals / localists / ecologically minded people to ease them into our tent). Basically, it starts with the two men walking around town touring urban vegetable plots after WWII and Mises supposedly remarking: “A very inefficient way of producing vegetables,” then Roepke memorably replied, “but a very efficient way of producing human happiness.”

Those knowledgeable in the Austrian school would know that Mises likely then would have smiled, and said "touche", but some try to use the story to paint Austrians as rigid efficiency automatons, when in fact, as exemplified by this thread such is not the case. Since economics is the study of human action, Austrians must naturally account for the human factor in its description of how things are.

 

[specsaregood]

Link please.

Well it seems it has changed --good news!; but worth noting: if a organic crop comes into contact with GMO foods it can still be certified "organic". ie: cross-pollination.

So if your organic farm is next door to somebody raising gmo-crops they can still have gmo-genes in them and still be certified "organic".
http://www.peacehealth.org/kbase/topic/special/zx3417/sec1.htm

 

[TCE]

Well it seems it has changed --good news!; but worth noting: if a organic crop comes into contact with GMO foods it can still be certified "organic". ie: cross-pollination.

So if your organic farm is next door to somebody raising gmo-crops they can still have gmo-genes in them and still be certified "organic".
http://www.peacehealth.org/kbase/topic/special/zx3417/sec1.htm

I see what you're saying. Another false lead are all of these "green washing" companies. As was shown in this study: Cornucopia Institute Soy Survey

Basically, if it is from a corporation that is big in the conventional business, take a pass.

 

[Bucjason]

If I see hippies on the side of the road , I lean out the window of my huge SUV and shower them with used fast food wrappers....none of which are bio-degradeable....

 

[amy31416]

If I see hippies on the side of the road , I lean out the window of my huge SUV and shower them with used fast food wrappers....none of which are bio-degradeable....

I just wish you were funny in your attempts to rile people up. Nothing more tedious than someone "trolling" a thread when they aren't all that witty.

Step it up a notch, would ya?

 

[Bucjason]

I just wish you were funny in your attempts to rile people up. Nothing more tedious than someone "trolling" a thread when they aren't all that witty.

Step it up a notch, would ya?

OMG , I will certainly try .....just for you ....I swear. Be sure to report back and let me know how I'm doing.

 

[stag15]

If I see hippies on the side of the road , I lean out the window of my huge SUV and shower them with used fast food wrappers....none of which are bio-degradeable....

Isn't this a Dennis Leary song?

 

[qh4dotcom]

It's a tough dilemma for me...because I live in an apartment building which has a shopping center next to it....I walk to the supermarket in this shopping center...I like what Whole Foods had to say but the supermarket is closer and cheaper