January 5, 2010
Whole Foods: Bad for the Planet!
You think I won't link to Mother Jones? Y'think? You dare me?
Kate Sheppard asks Is Whole Foods Bad for the Planet?
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has probably brought more people to organic foods than anyone else in the United States. And many of the folks shopping at his markets undoubtedly consider themselves to be environmentally aware. They might even believe that by purchasing their groceries at Whole Foods outlets they are doing their part to help the planet. But certainly many of them would probably be startled to learn of of [sic] Mackey's position on climate change: he's a global warming denier.
If only a reliable media outlet had predicted this disaster...
To be fair, I think Whole Foods is bad for the planet because they promote organic farming which threatens animal habitat and fair trade coffee which impoverishes the poorest farmers to subsidize middle-class (well, less poor) farmers. But those don't seem to be the faults that Mother Jones has in mind.
But are the subsidized organic farms any different than America's large corporate farms? I was under the impression that the obscenity passed every other year (euphemistically titled a "farm bill") was not so discriminatory.
Posted by: T. Greer at January 5, 2010 10:09 PM | What do you think? [1]