author and blogger
Author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It, blogger at La Vida Locavore and member of the policy advisory board of the Organic Consumers Association; former Whole Foods employee (2007)
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Jill Richardson
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FROM Jill Richardson
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Uproad over Whole Foods and Healthcare Millions of Whole Foods customers pay premium prices to make sure what they buy is organic. But company founder John Mackey's views on healthcare reform, voiced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, have some loyalists talking boycott , with one contributor saying the food is scrumptious but it's producing "indigestion of the soul."
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