Hundreds of consumers are asking Whole Foods Market to make a "revolutionary" change. An online petition calling on the Texas-based supermarket chain—which has stores in Vancouver and West Vancouver—to shut down its meat counters has been signed 1,400 times.
Posted by James McWilliams, the Texas-based author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, the petition states:
Forget (for the moment) dairy and eggs and all the animal-based products dependent on systematic suffering that you believe are integral to a robust stock price. We can deal with these items later. For now, as a step toward a better future, just shut down the meat markets. Forever.
Do this because you can afford to do it. Do this because it is consistent with your articulated values. Do this because it is the right thing to do. Do this because you would be doing the gutsiest thing ever done in corporate and culinary history. Do this because, if you don’t, nobody else ever will. As a loyal patron, vegan advocate, and historian of agriculture, I’m asking you to do what you have done so well since the 1980s: lead.
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