Wow. I bought all kinds of cool stuff. And I didn’t need anything. I just bought stuff and gave it away to my family and friends. And the air conditioning in the store was great, nice and cold. After I finished my snacks, I just threw the wrappers out the window, which is pretty cool too.

I am now hooked on Whole Foods.

Thanks all for the campaign!

BTW.

Socialized government healthcare – to insure the 25 million illegal aliens in the US – would lead the US faster to ruin, which is what liberals want because they hate the US and its history.

The polls prove it – most Americans don’t want government run health care.

The people who want it had never heard of “health care” before until Al Gore invented it a few years ago. Or was that the Internet, I forget?

I am a Democrat BTW.

I'll do as I please, including not shopping at Wingnut Foods.

If you love health care so much, spend you're freaking money on it and not mine. What a idiot.

What is “communist” about spending my money the way I feel like spending it? Funny how wingnuts love the free market until it bites 'em. It's hilarious to see!

Your concern touches my heart. If you love Wingnut Foods so much, then shop there. But I won't.

After all, if you’ve been a frequent Whole Foods shopper before now, you must like the product he puts out.

Wingnut, you people aren't big on reading comprehension, are you? I wrote that a new Wingnut Foods is opening a mile and a half from my house. Ordinarily, that would make the place a candidate for my business, because it's a bit closer to my house than some of their competition. But I'm not going to spend my money there.

The problem, SeattleLefty and others like you, is that you have mistakenly confused a public policy debate with a litmus test for good and evil.

So you say. But what you say has nothing to do with how I will act, or why. I'm not going to shop at Wingnut Foods because their CEO is an Republican jerk. Looks like you'll have to spend twice as much to make up for it, huh?

CEO McKey has a valuable perspective on health care from his own life and business experiences

CEO Mackey is a wingnut who wants to deny healthcare to Americans. His “perspective” isn't valuable, it's obnoxious. So I'm not going to darken his company's doorway. He's got a right to free speech, and I have a right to spend (or not spend) where I want to. Funny how you wingnuts are all for “the free market” until it turns on you. Hey, maybe Wingnut Foods can hire a lobbyist and get Republicans to support a subsidy.

In other words, grow up.

What makes you so apoplectic about my spending choices? Take your hand out of my wallet and run along, child!
I don't think I'm the one who needs to grow up here, winger.

I don't understand…. Under Bush the conservatives went along with everything he said. Bush even marginalized anyone who disagreed with him and the conservatives were fine. Especially on the run up to the Iraq war. In case you've forgotten tens of millions of people all over the world protested what everyone viewed as Bush's inevitable invasion of Iraq, which was a war based on lies and choice. However the conservatives led by Bush essentially said, “You're either with us or against us.”

So today… aren't those people who are boycotting WFM protesting (dissenting)? I don't see Obama either supporting or opposing the right of individuals to take their business elsewhere if they don't like something.

So…. how is Obama discouraging dissent? More importantly, why did Bush not listen to the American people? Our country is worse off after eight years of Bush…. Are you calling for his return or a continuation of his ruinous policies?

Just to be clear… lots of comments on here…. I don't shop at WFM and if I did I wouldn't stop because of this. I think the boycott is silly, but I understand why some people are upset and they are right (for their reasons- but what motivates them is different than what motivates me… and I'm sure what motivates you is an equally right third view).

Oh, shit. That title says “BOYcott!”

Oh. You really can't think straight, can you.

If you boycott Whole Foods because you don’t like its CEO’s position on ObamaCare, are you going to shop instead at Trader Joe’s, which is a subsidiary of a huge German discount grocery store chain privately owned by the 9th richest person in the world (according to the 2009 Forbes list) – and what do you bet he doesn’t rely on Germany’s universal health care system? Or are you going to shop at your local farmers’ markets and, if so, are you only going to shop with the farmers who take an oath that they support ObamaCare and have dropped their Grange membership? Or are you going to shop at Central Market, and if so, are you going to ask owner Larry Nakata if his opinion on health care reform is any different than McKey’s?

PCC might be a safe place, except – what about how the food gets to the store? Are you aware that ALL of the products at any of these stores relied on the villainous oil companies to get there, and a huge market share of the food shipping industry is in the hands of staunch conservatives who donate generously to Republican candidates?

Is your problem that the Whole Foods CEO disagrees with you, or that he rubbed it in your face that he disagrees with you by saying so out loud? After all, if you’ve been a frequent Whole Foods shopper before now, you must like the product he puts out. It must really bother your self-regard that someone who does something you like doesn’t share your whole mindset. It makes it harder to hold on to your bigotry – the cognitive dissonance that someone might share your admiration for organic foods and yet disagree with you on health care reform.

The problem, SeattleLefty and others like you, is that you have mistakenly confused a public policy debate with a litmus test for good and evil. CEO McKey has a valuable perspective on health care from his own life and business experiences, and they have led him to a different conclusion than you reached. So debate his arguments, if you can, but don’t think that your views on health care policy somehow earn you sainthood and prove him a demon. In other words, grow up.

Corporations don't have the full power of the state behind them. They cannot deprive you of your life and liberty. Government can use force on me.

I can't understand why people can't see the difference here.

Who said it was a “boycott,” and even if it is, who says it's a “solution?” For me, it's just a matter of where to spend my money. I drive past the new Whole Foods store every day. Now when I look at it I will have a negative association, and I won't go there. I couldn't care less what happens to John Mackey. I'm sure he has his. Maybe he'll get cancer and die. Maybe he'll live until he's 120, and donate to wingnut causes. Whatever.