Comments on: United Farm Workers Protest at Whole Foods in the Pearl District

By: so NOT cool

so NOT cool — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:37:31 +0000

X just called Whole Foods an organic Wal-Mart.

From the mouths of babes …

By: so NOT cool

so NOT cool — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:22:58 +0000

Wow. Interesting.

There was a time when I shopped exclusively at Whole Foods. That was over five years ago.

Now, I shop there 0.00000001% of the time.

And, thanks to “disingenuous blog commenting”, it’ll now be less.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:04:26 +0000

Follow-up: An interesting development this morning. "Fred" above, uses an email address that Facebook ties to one Mike Minney, who is listed in the Whole Foods Market network in Seattle. I wonder if disingenuous blog commenting using aliases is part of their corporate policy; you'd think the John Mackey scandal would have made them a bit more cautious.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:22:51 +0000

The information available on the event is sparse at best; I saw it in a .pdf on the PGMC site, and then contacted them for more specifics. The information I quote, as I note, is directly from Jobs for Justice; I asked to post something from them simply because I couldn't find any mention of the event online. The text went out, as it is above, in an email to their supporters.

UFW is an organization that I respect; when I see their name attached to a cause, I imagine that there's a good reason. I wish that there were a bit better information available.

I've contacted Steve Witte at UFW and asked him to weigh in with more details. I'll get them up when I hear from him.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:09:51 +0000

I don’t see any info on those websites. What’s the story? What was their “commitment to neutrality”? Have they had a problem talking with Whole Foods or is this a problem that they have specifically with Beef Northwest? (Do you mean Oregon Beef?) Have they even taken it up with Beef NW? It sounds like thin reasoning and a bit reactionary. Everything I know about WF sounds like they try pretty hard to make sure animals AND people involved are all treated pretty humanely.