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The entire point of this post is for my daughter's benefit alone.
She fucking LOVES Whole Foods, and any other store that advertises it sells non-GMO organically grown products.
My daughter reads food labels like lonely middle aged men read the back of porn DVDs.
"Nope too much fat in this one."
"Nope too many unnatural additives in that one."
She quite literally drives me crazy by judging the foods I eat, which in my defense are pretty healthy, by some unnatural standard that I could only achieve if I lived off of berries and bark in the woods near my house.
And even then she would probably be upset if she was not convinced that I had humanely harvested the tree bark without causing any pain to the tree.
Whole Foods also has some issues with the fed. government about meat weights which have, for some odd reason, resulted in customers being overcharged. Our former hometown had a Whole Foods, which I never liked, because it smelled too much like the vitamin section of a health food store, had box-piled aisles that were too narrow and had prices that were too high. Beside the point - to be sure - but the right-wing owner of Whole Foods was vociferously opposed to the ACA and about everything else that President Obama has done.
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I stopped shopping at Whole Foods years ago when I found the owners were pro-birth anti-choice supporters. That was enough for me.
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Hahahahahaha. I have my own version of your daughter. My son gives me Whole Foods gift certificates as gifts, makes me watch every food related documentary, only eats paleo foods and gives me a lecture every time I drink a Pepsi. He has taught me to strive to eat well, though.
ReplyDeleteGood for her!! I feel the same way she does.
ReplyDeleteI'm a very conscientious food consumer myself. I read food labels and am careful to buy food that's as locally sourced as possible. I don't have a whole foods in my town but would shop at one if it was available. When I'm in a city that has one, I enjoy shopping there. For ME it's fun to see all the healthy options and it's beautifully presented. I realize it's the new thing to criticize Whole Foods, but I'm happy it's around as another consumer choice.
ReplyDeleteThen you have grown yourself a fine daughter !
ReplyDeleteHahaha, that was hilarious and true.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is a middle aged man who reads food labels like your daughter does. But, we definitely can't afford to shop at Whole Foods, which I think is obscenely overpriced before they overcharge you even more at the cash register.
Whole Paycheck, as my children call it
DeleteBack in Santa Barbara in 1990, before Whole Foods, they had a store called Follow Your Heart which was like shopping for food at Nordstroms.
DeleteThe artist I worked for would buy us wonderful lunches from there, but she called it Follow Your Heart, Lose Your Wallet.
My husband used to work at a Boulder, Colorado based company (Gaiam) which did a lot of business with John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods. My husband could not stand the guy!
ReplyDeleteHe is an absolutely hard-line libertarian who idolizes Ayn Rand. He donates huge amounts to conservative causes---recently, he has declared that Americans do not have a right to health care, and has vehemently opposed any public option.
He is strongly anti-union and has called the Obama administration "fascist". He believes that climate change is "perfectly natural and not necessarily bad" and that no scientific consensus exists.
And so on, and so on. You all know the drill. Research it if you don't believe me.
If this is the kind of horse's ass you want to benefit from your patronage, then by all means shop at Whole Foods. I know I never will.
So true, 6:15. Somebody with only a GED better be making lots of dough to shop there.
DeleteAnd people say that Christians are stupid people buying into a fairy tale? Who's lacking critical thinking skills now?
Whole Foods shouldn't have to apologize for the asparagus water, anyone dumb enough to pay $6 for that deserves what they get.
ReplyDeleteGood for your daughter! I see the obesity issue in this country and it tells me there isn't necessarily a problem with people who are lazy and can't control themselves as much as there is a problem with our food supply that is mostly processed, loaded with chemicals and addictive. I buy organic as much as possible, raise as much of my own produce as possible and buy absolutely nothing processed. I had a weight issue, I no longer do. And I did it in a very healthy way with zero suffering. If the earth didn't make it, I don't eat it. If the only way I can fight back against big ag and big food is with my $$$ and it helps me stay healthy (it does), I'm happy to do it!
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ReplyDeleteSorry, but Whole Foods is one on my list to never shop at. The CEO thinks he should be able to control my uterus( which I have been able to do just fine all on my own).
ReplyDeleteShopping at Whole Foods is simply a way for dumb people to spend a lot of money and support right wing nut jobs at the same time.
ReplyDeleteOnly dumb millenials trying to be cool shop at whole foods. Wake up your daughter Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteWhole Foods is indicative of the liberal anti-science side of things. Meh, everyone's got issues. :D
ReplyDeleteI shop at Whole Foods sometimes because it's close and I don't feel like fighting the refugee exodus that has become my HEB: hundreds of people wandering the aisles, their arms full of stuff with no idea where they're going or what they're going to do when the get there. Big time-sucker.
You'll have to tell your daughter my Whole Foods story ... I live in Alaska, but I go to Maui often (in fact, that's where I am right now). Whole Foods opened on Maui a couple of years ago. I was in the store, standing at the fish counter, when the fish guy asked if he could help me. I saw that they were selling farmed salmon and I asked him why Whole Foods would be selling farmed salmon. He proceeded to tell me that farmed salmon was better for you than wild salmon and it tasted better. I told him I had worked in the commercial fishing industry in Alaska and that he was absolutely wrong. That's when he told me we were ruining our fishery and we would soon not have any salmon. That's the last time I stepped into a Whole Foods.
ReplyDeleteI try my best to buy locally sourced foods, foods I've grown in my garden etc. etc. But rarely shop Whole foods because it's overpriced and rarely have I seen an apple that doesn't look perfect without a bug bite nor bruise, which makes me wonder how they're any better than the ones I pick off my trees or from local farmers that I trust? We can a lot of foods ourselves, and can make cucumber/asparagus/mint/ whatever flavored water for a hell of a lot less than they're charging.
ReplyDeleteWe try to eat "clean", few if any, processed foods, and we're big fans of seasonal fruits and veggies.
The funniest thing I saw at a "regular supermarket" (Shoprite) Was the produce guy taking oranges out of the same box, moving the cart over to the "organic" section, and putting "organic" stickers on the same fruit at twice the price. How do we know if there isn't a label/branding on the fruit to PROVE it's certified organic?
I was in one once.
ReplyDeleteI prefer Trader Joe's but there isn't one close by.
I shop at Windmill Farms when I can but I still have to read labels as they do have some things with HFCS.
I avoid buying things with corn or soy specifically to avoid GMOs.
And yes, I voted in favor of requiring labeling.