Whole Foods CEO is Ripped and Praised for Health Care Stance

Most CEOs clam up about anything too political, for fear of driving off customers. Not John Mackey of Austin-based Whole Foods Market, which has several stores in North Texas. Mackey wrote an op-ed piece this week for The Wall Street Journal criticizing Obamacare. That enraged some members of the socks-and-Birkenstocks set, who typically flock to places like Whole Foods to bag their goat’s-milk brie and $4 tomatoes. Some of them are vowing to boycott the organic grocer; others say they’ll shop there more often in support of Mackey’s free-market views.