[Taken lazily from a response]

People here confuse a boycott
against Whole Foods with some
kind of civil rights actions -
we're all Rosa Parks now.

People can't get their heads
around the fact that it's not
"free speech" if it comes with
repercussions. It makes little
difference whether I thrash
you with my cane or get you
fired or make you pay a load
of money or threaten your
family's safety - I'm finding
a way to shut your opinion up,
or at least others who might
try to go down that free speech
path.

Why can Robert Novak or Pat
Buchanan or Rush Limbaugh or Bill
O'Reilly express their opinion
with no repercussion (except
lots of pay), and John Mackey
can't? Mackey's certainly not
as controversial as the others,
and it's hard to see a
benefit like healthy food that
Novak and Buchanan have brought.


Except that alternative ideas
are healthy food, whether we
accept or reject them. The gut
needs some fiber to scrape along,
something to clear it out.

A diet based on easy-to-digest
pap is simply not healthy.
We need complex foods, we need
complex discourse. Get used to it.
Support it.

Brain food,  you've got to feed your
Mind.