Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey, recently published this editorial in the Wall Street Journal criticizing the Democrats’ health plan: WSJ Article by John Mackey.  In response to this article and John Mackey’s general libertarian ideals towards health care and other issues, many liberal-leaning Whole Foods shoppers have banded together to boycott the grocer.  A leading forum for these dissenters has been a Facebook group supporting the boycott.

The Facebook group, boasting over 19,000 members at the time of the publishing of this article, describes its mission statement as the following:

John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on August 12, 2009 quoting Margaret Thatcher and suggesting that healthcare is a commodity that only the rich, like him, deserve.

Whole Foods has built its brand with the dollars of deceived progressives. Let them know your money will no longer go to support Whole Foods’ anti-union, anti-health insurance reform, right-wing activities.

I rather prefer the Margaret Thatcher quote with which Mackey began his article: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

Being that we who contribute to this blog (and presumably most that read it) call ourselves libertarians, I would like to officially begin the Whole Foods Liberty Support group.  I hereby proclaim that we, as libertarians, should do what libertarians do best and vote with our dollars.  We should show that we support John Mackey’s stance on health care and libertarianism by making up for a small portion of the thousands of shoppers that will visit some other organic grocer.  Henceforth, I am buying all of my organic goods at Whole Foods.

Please join the newly created Whole Foods Libertarian Support Group on Facebook and work with me to setup regular economic lunch discussions at local Whole Foods stores.

*Note that organic foods are completely ludicrous and Jeremy P. Arendt, The United States Holding Company, and Rise of Reason are in full support of genetically modified food, pesticide, fertilizer, and anything else that makes food more abundant and cheaper. However, the freedom to pay too much for your produce is fully supported.  Likewise, all said entities are in full support of libertarians across the world and are therefore in support of shopping at Whole Foods.  Plus, the store really has some great items.