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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on August 13, 2009, 01:28:50 PM
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The DUmp's roster of acceptable companies continues to shrink. Whole Foods, previously a DUmmy-approved
source of damaged or misshapen produce (aka"organic") at double the normal price, has suddenly fallen to
depths previously inhabited only by WalMart. DUmmy love has evaporated:
RedEarth (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-13-09 01:28 PM
Original message
Whole Foods Exec Slams Health Care Reform, Says People Should Just Eat Whole Foods
By Brian Beutler - August 13, 2009, 10:53AM
"We should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction--toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone." Sounds like a policy brief written by House Republicans, right?
Wrong.
The above passage comes from a Wall Street Journal op-ed written by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. His solution for the health care crisis includes common Republican ideas--"Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year"--to unexplained platitudes--"Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair."
But conveniently, it also includes the following advice: "Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat."
Translation: Whole Foods is the solution to all of America's health care woes
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/whole-food-e...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6295028
krabigirl (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-13-09 01:31 PM
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1. What an idiot. Will never shop there again, not like I do very often anyway.
Until this announcement, DUmmy krabigirl could never have admitted seldom shopping
at Whole Foods.
Hell hath no fury like a DUmmy scorned:
DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-13-09 01:33 PM
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2. Douche bag lost me as a customer
does he thinks we aren't his customers? What else are they doing to **** with us?
Systematic Chaos (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-13-09 01:33 PM
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3. He's right about the plant-based diet. I can attest that it works BEAUTIFULLY. However...
...the rest of this screed is just utter bullshit.
Isn't this the hugely fat guy?
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Isn't this the hugely fat guy?
Yeah, it is, the gigantic primitive.
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The DUmp's roster of acceptable companies continues to shrink. Whole Foods, previously a DUmmy-approved
source of damaged or misshapen produce (aka"organic") at double the normal price,
Loved that! :rotf:
Hell hath no fury like a DUmmy scorned:
Isn't this the hugely fat guy?
That description fits so very, very many of them...
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The DUmp's roster of acceptable companies continues to shrink. Whole Foods, previously a DUmmy-approved
source of damaged or misshapen produce (aka"organic") at double the normal price,
He is a capitalist. DUmmies shocked.
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Shopping sans DUmmies.....sounds good to me.
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The Whole Foods CEO has a point - there is a massive burden placed on the heathcare system by people who have done damage to themselves by their lifestyle choices. However... eating overpriced food isn't the solution.