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wholefoods there's an interesting uh... uh... art interview
the whole foods c_e_o_ and co-founder john mackey and effing mother jones and
he is uh... kind of medicine at a climate change skeptic but he welcomes
climate change in the sense he's warning of fascism he says obama care maybe
opening up the path towards
so-called fascism
most people probably assumed and that many people would have no reason to
doubt it
that whole foods is very liberal company at absolutely every level
right not true
they put together what is some kind of progressive type branding but it is a a
an an organization like any other that is a publicly traded organization and
has a a libertarian
c_e_o_ and co-founder which some progressives many progresses would take
issue
uh... with some of his positions lewis who has many times though
been rated as one of the top ten companies in the country to work for
that's true
so innocently says i don't understand why you but he's at it i don't
understand what you prefer
free-market health care system look at the experience of whole foods in twenty
ten
he told her employees at the cost of wholefoods plan as a percentage of sales
and increased sixty percent in seven years that's a huge increase
and john mackey says your assumption is that the u_s_ had a free market health
care system back in it did not the health care system even prior to the
affordable care act was one of the most highly regulated sectors in our economy
he basically wants full free-market capitalism instead of socialism or some
type of of fascism
work government controls and directs business which that's what he believes
we are headed
he was asked about you are known to be a bit of a climate change skeptic
and he says contrary to what has been written about me i am not a climate
change skeptic climate change is occurring we've had about a one point
five degree celsius increase in temperature over a hundred and fifty
years
we have a gradual warming trend since the end of the little ice age in
eighteen seventy etcetera
the thing is climate changes natural and not necessarily bad what i am opposed to
is trying to stop all economic progress because of this
of climate change
so you know
i'd i've heard a lot of different things about john mackey and when you actually
read his interviews
he has some views that i don't agree with but he is not to me does not appear
to be
this kind of uh... up prototypical evil neoconservative type of guy i know that
being said
i often do my shopping a whole foods
idon't this doesn't really make me wanna shop there more certainly may be the
others other there's other places that have
was similar in organic food and stuff like that in my area that i can go to a
navy i would try to
what you thought on this what does that is your opinion of whole foods at all
influenced by this
now i mean they're good to their employees uh...
their relatively
company if you know
as far as large supermarket chains co
i would guess what his opinions on this wouldn't change my mind he doesn't seem
like a lunatic when it comes to the stuff it seems like his opinions are
actually a bit more nuance than most of the die hard ah...
big business guys out there can you tell your thought
i mean i totally disagree with what he's saying there's anything about the free
market health care system completely
proposes is basically the worst thing that this country to do with a lot going
to happen here's doesn't have the power of really control around where the other
for child
the question is whether this is the reason not to go there is certainly i
can't think of some things that this guy could say that would make me never go to
whole foods right but he hasn't said any of those who
having said that maybe this is enough to get some people not to go
nine monica
yeah i don't go because uh...
much more inexpensive places in the area they have also have good food
their ego or