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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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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    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." Former Whole Foods employee Jill Richardson is author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Producer, The Treatment

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      Karen Radziner

      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Jill Richardson

      author and blogger

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