Whole Fools..WAH

Ah, whole foods. mecca of fine groceries and elegant rustic buffets of mouth watering divinity. orangic. sigh.natural.hmmm.ethical?i dunno. while i was away this past year in my beef eatin, starch lovin, white bread neck of the woods, it would have seemed as if i was in mid-america, home of meat and potatas. but oddly enough, i was in none other than the romantic and passionate latin land of tango and wine, buenos aires, argentina. the first month away i was overwhelmed by the cuisine. local parrillas offering you any and every type of cow part that exists! accompanied by garlic and parsley french fries and baskets of sinful white baguettes. along with quality red wine and an authentic ambiance of comradery,celebrated indulgence and feelgood fun, eating out to dinner was an undiluted argentine experience. but after six months averaging about three to four 16 ounce steaks a week, i became rather revolted. and that's when my inner yuppy started fantasizing about the delectable, nutritious, angelic assortment of whole food's chow. i've always felt somewhat justified buying whole food's premium goodies because of the store's ideology and values toward food production. expensive yes, but for the greater good,thought so...but now i have been nibbling at takoma co-op dried papaya slices, icky tofuRkey,ranch sun flower seedsand various,yet tired, blender concoctions forcing my selfish addiction to decadent foods to wane after the cohen parents declared a household ban on whole foods eats. turns out, the CEO of Whole Foods is rather slimy when it comes down to human ethics. sure, he advocates for the production of local produce, pesticide free foliage and quality standards of what is sold to consumers, but unfortunately, our organic overseer is preaching rather fishy assessments of health care reform to the public. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html#articleTabs%3Darticle (**copy and paste to see article because i have still not figured out how to do it properly) so, while we all join hands and blindly condone the vices in our life that make us happy..and unhealthy(excessiveamountsofbooze, the somewhat occasional cigarette, raw cookie dough, carcinogenic scented candles, cellular radiation, blah blah blah)one generally steps down, surrenders and says, you pick your poisons. but i do try and be careful about the poisons i pick. and i guess, so is my family. so while i will allow a few (okay maybe a LOT) of brain cells to get wacKy from a singular ecstasy adventure, or accept the rare occasion i indulge in high fructose corn syrup, i know one thing, it won't be at someone elses expense. and while i support the first layer of values that whole foods embodies, i also know that we are complex and highly interconnected to one and other. i could option to support whole foods and a healthy, nutritious, organic, farm friendly philosophy, but ultimately it would be superficial identification and support of a neglectful value system that roots far deeper in issues than healthy living. it's a system that effects those that can not afford pesticide free food, because large corporations have monopolies on those essentials therefore allowing the price to be lower as well as the quality. whole foods CEO John Mackey claims that americans are individually making themselves unhealthy. considering he is supposedly a pioneer in his field,to make a claim that is so vacant of truth and so inorganic from reality, is utterly disappointing.