This is a short diary. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has a "response" up on the Whole Foods Weblog. Read it here.
Mackey doesn't back down from his pronouncements, but seems to be practicing the time-honored art of damage control. And he maintains that it's all the people's fault:
Over the past two decades, breakthrough scientific research by Colin Campbell, as documented in his book The China Study, and clinical medical experiences by many doctors including Dean Ornish, Caldwell Esselstyn, John McDougall, Joel Fuhrman, and Neal Barnard have shown that a diet consisting of whole foods which are plant-based, nutrient dense, and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most of the degenerative diseases that are killing us, and becoming more and more expensive to treat through drugs and surgery. We should be able to live healthy and largely disease free lives until we are well into our 90’s and even past 100 years of age.
Here's a thought, Mackey. If you're so committed to every adult taking responsibility for their own health, how about lowering the costs on your groceries so that poor people (those whose skin is a different color than yours) can buy that "wholesome food."
In the meantime, I'm happy to promote the boycott.