Whole Foods Market

About

Whole Foods Market is a publicly-traded corporation whose business is a grocery store chain emphasizing "natural and organic products".

They have been ranked among the most socially responsible businesses and placed fourth on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of Top 25 Green Power Partners. Despite this, the company has advocated a number of causes which seem to run counter to the ideas of sustainability and public benefit, including:

• advocating against laws requiring labeling of GMO foods
• advocating against Obamacare and in favor of private, employment-based health insurance

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Reference

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia: no information as of 2014-07-23
• dKosopedia: no information as of 2014-07-23
• SourceWatch

News

• 2009-08-11 [L..T] The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare «While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.»