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Boycott Whole Foods
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    1. CEO - Whole Foods (+ 1 other)
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      • CEO - Whole Foods (John Mackey)
      • Global communications team — Whole Foods (Kate Lowery)
  2. Created By
    Mike Smith
    San Francisco, United Kingdom
About this Petition Petition Letter

Whole Foods, from most accounts, provides generous healthcare and is a comparatively good retail/service job - so this isn't a boycott about workers' rights in the traditional sense.  Instead, it's a pointed rebuke of the idea that we lack the right to healthcare. The more we can raise our voices that all of us have a right to a home, a good job, adequate healthcare, sustainable wages, the more we can get beyond incremental changes in our tattered safety net.

(Form letter text via Daily Kos)

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Why We're Boycotting Whole Foods

Dear Whole Foods

Your CEO Mr. Mackey's ill-informed article does tremendous harm to the cause of health care reform. His solutions, e.g. high deductible plans, are simply ridiculous. These things are part of the problem, not the solution. As the country spirals further into debt from health insurance costs, lining the pockets of health insurance company CEOs along the way, and America falls further and further behind other developed nations in all leading health indicators, Mr. Mackey has the audacity to point to Medicare as the problem. Of course his solutions are silly--they are simply right-wing talking points.

Mr. Mackey has the right to speak his point of view. We customers similarly have a right to support those businesses whose political support will not be detrimental to society.

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