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<h3><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'>{Adapted from <a
href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Mackey">http://joemygod.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Mackey</a>.
Thanks to Bobby The Lip for sending it in. <o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
<h3><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'>See also <a
href="http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10891">http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10891</a>.}
<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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color:black;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></h3>
<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>More Crazy From
The Whole Foods CEO <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Whole Foods CEO John Mackey thinks that global warming <a
href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/01/whole-foods-ceo-john-mackey-global.html">is
a hoax</a> and that Americans have <a
href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2009/08/whole-foods-ceo-people-have-no.html">no
inherent right</a> to health care</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> and that unions are like <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mackey_%28businessman%29#cite_ref-14">herpes</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>. </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The <a
href="http://jezebel.com/5456561/weigh-less-pay-less-whole-foods-offers-discount-based-on-bmi">latest
bit of crazy</a> from Mackey</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>is a new employee discount
policy. If you have lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and a lower BMI
(Body Mass Index), you get a bigger discount. Aside from the fact that those
three factors, while important, are not necessarily predictive of good health, Mackey's
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>sending a </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>"fatties shouldn't work here" message. The planned
in-house screenings should be a <i>riot</i>. Participation is voluntary, just
in case you don't want corporate all up in your business. But then you don't
get the steeper discount on that $2 banana. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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