That is if you find the usual crowd of holier than thou, environment-angelical, yuppie-types slightly annoying to navigate through while you purchase your organic produce and cage-free eggs. The aisles might just be a little less crowded since the Wall Street Journal published CEO, John Mackey’s op-ed on health care reform on 8/12.

“While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded…

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Lots of commonsense suggestions to rein in health care costs that won’t bankrupt the country in John Mackey’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today. Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, points to eight steps to health care reform that involve less government intervention and greater individual choice, while driving down costs.

Mackey’s recommendations are similar to those of Gov. Bobby Jindal and those of  Susanne Lomatch as outlined here.

Also enjoyed this quote framing Mackey’s article:

“The problem with socialism is that eventually…

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Writer Michael Shaw recently produced a very interesting blog post and article on reusable grocery bags. Most of us might think the only really big drawback of such things is remembering to keep them handy. Whole Foods apparently didn’t anticipate too many drawbacks of such bags, when they banned the convenient plastic bags and began pushing reusable ones in addition to offering paper bags. CEI pointed out the drawbacks associated with paper.

But Shaw points out the unintended problems associated with the reusable bags…

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Whole Foods profit has fallen 32 percent, reflecting changes in consumer demand during economic hard times. It appears that organic food becomes a luxury item that must be dispensed with when times get hard. Despite the fact that organic food isn’t necessarily any healthier or better for the environment than conventional food, many people view it as environmentally superior and are willing to pay more for it—but only up to a point. There is a lesson for environmentalists to learn here.…

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During the negotiations for the multi-billion dollar bailout being announced today, an option again apparently came up that might have gone a long way toward strengthening General Motors and Chrysler’s viability that wouldn’t have cost taxpayers a dime — a merger between the two of them.

But also once again, the idea was quickly shot down. The companies didn’t give a reason, but more than likely it was the hurdles of antitrust rules. The Detroit News recently quoted an antitrust expert saying…

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In early 2007, the economy was humming along and General Motors was considered to be in the process of a turnaround. To help stabilize itself, the company was considering buying its smaller, money-losing rival Chrysler.

But it faced a stumbling block in the form of antitrust law. According to analysts looking at a potential merger, the government would consider a combined GM and Chrysler too big and powerful with the ability to drive competition out of the market. The Wall Street…

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