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Published: 08/14/09

CEO's Anti-Obamacare Comments Incite Whole Foods Customers

By  Judy Howard Ellis - Politics Daily
CEO's Anti-Obamacare Comments Incite Whole Foods Customers

John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market, has stepped into controversy before (buying out Wild Oats, using an alias online, allegedly not supporting local farmers, etc.), and now he's back in the place of contention again. His anti-Obamacare op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal, listing eight reforms he says will lower health care costs for everyone, has triggered a boycott and heated words on Facebook. Some Whole Foods customers applaud his position; other shoppers are vowing they will never browse the shelves of Whole Foods again. An excerpt: Many promoters of health-care reform ...

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