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Whole Foods CEO´s views on health care reform spark progressive boycott

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published August 19, 2009.

As progressives, moderates and conservatives continue to debate health care reform, some powerful entities are also leveraging their influence, including a figure who´s now attracting attention from both sides of the political spectrum, John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods.

Some progressives have been displeased with the organic grocer for several years.

But Mackey´s recent op-ed on health care, published in the Wall Street Journal has spurred an organized boycott. FSRN’s Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.