Over the coming days, WholeBoycott.com will be adding pages to the site to share publicly information on various aspects of boycott activities. Today’s new page is designed to help boycott supporters find real-world boycott events in their community. At the page is a list of communities where meetup groups are underway. If we don’t know about your group, we can’t post it.
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August 25, 2009 at 9:03 am
“Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted: two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.”
Paragraph Rewrite. -farmer joe-
Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are inflicted on the working poor population. Our time machines stopped the day we were born, and we cannot go back and fix in one day the years of damage that has big business has inflicted. The food we can afford to feed our little future tax payers is the food that causes heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity. We have removed education about proper diet and exercise from the education system so our little ones will not have a chance for a healthy future.
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I am so tired of this BS that Mr. Mackey and people like him hand out. Corporations have been milking the money from the bottom 90% of the people for the last 50 years. When their system crumbles they take 4T in handouts from us and then publish this cruft. We are tired of it. Look at the markets. We are not stockpiling weapons and ammo just to protect us from corrupt government. We are not planting survival gardens and hoarding salt for nothing. It is you and your kind we have taken the flat-file to the pitchfork for, and it will be you swinging in the town square.
August 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm
If you are in West Los Angeles on Wednesday September 2 from 5 to 7 PM and you want to attend a MoveOn sponsored vigil for single payer health care, one will be held at the corner of National and Barrington, 90064. It just so happens that a Whole Foods is also on that corner. This is not a boycott Whole Foods vigil, but if you have some boycott Whole Foods information you would like to pass out, or if you have some boycott Whole Foods signs you would like to display in public with like minded people, all I can say is “hey it’s a free America and all peaceful people are welcome.”
If you would like more information go to this web site:
http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/attendees/index.html?event_id=97819&id=-3462768-TJcnCIx
August 27, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Starting to arrange a picket at the Reno, NV store. Check our site for more info or join to participate.
August 30, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Thanks for letting me know about this. I have never shopped at Whole Foods before but will defiantly start now.
Single payer system will suck and be another boondoggle. I am amazed at all you libs who hate “big business” and think they are evil yet you are all for big government who actually does all the things you clam big business does except they do them 10x worse and inefficiently. What big program has the government done well? Fanny May & Freddy Mac (Corrupt and out of business if not a government program), Social Security (mismanaged and going broke), Medicare (current gov health care, mismanaged and going broke), VA Hospitals (Both my Grandfathers WWII vet and refused to go into them) Post Office (would have been out of business years ago if not gov run), FEMA (two words, New Orleans) and the list goes on. Our health care payment system is not perfect, however it could be worse…like if the government controlled it.
August 31, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Are there any concerns among the people here of the cost of a massive new health care program?
And boycotts generally hurt the people who can least afford to be hurt. I think compassionate liberals everywhere should consider that.
I shop at Whole Foods in Minneapolis, and will continue.
August 31, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Are there any concerns among skeptics of healthcare reform about doing nothing or doing more band-aid tinkering? By the way, I hope you realize that the ‘massive new health care program’ is put forth so that regular Americans can become productive members of society, pay taxes, and pursue the American dream from a level and fair playing field. And I hope you realize that the cost of the current private health insurance market in terms of deaths, ruination, and illness is unconscionable. So, yes, “compassionate liberals everywhere” have considered that and your concerns as well. Have you done the same?
August 31, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Steven, I believe we would do well to have more reforms of the private sector, whether you like to call it it band-aid or tinkering, that’s fine, we need them IMO. But I strongly don’t think it requires the massive changes and government control of everyone to avoid the unconscionable death and ruination and illness that you cite. I also think there are many motivations for this being “put forth” and citing the “one” that you do as absolute could be changed to be more helpful, just my opinion, as generally an independent…for what its worth.
August 31, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Yes, I have actually. I think about it a lot. I’m a Democrat myself. But a bit of a Blue Dog deficit-hawk kind of person. Been an unsettling few months with this new administration.
I’m not sure what you mean. How is the lack of this program keeping people from being “productive members of society?”
I’m a lucky guy because I’m pretty healthy. But my wife has a medical history. We have very good insurance. I don’t think our companies will dump their plans for the government option, but one can never know. And it’s the not knowing that worries me; and I bet I’m not alone.
I think Mr. Mackay also has a right to his opinion, and all he owes me is a good shopping experience.