In last week’s Wall Street Journal , CEO of Whole Foods John Mackey argued against Obama’s health care plan and laid out eight of his own ideas for 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 deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health care system,” he wrote. Sure enough, Mackey’s words sparked an uproar on Whole Foods’ website, some of which called for a boycott of the grocery empire. Did Mackey exhibit a lapse in judgment? Will his ramblings be bad for business?

The assumption: Whole Foods shoppers tend to be on the liberal side of the spectrum. Talking Points Memo’s Brian Beutler sums it up well: “If you own a major supermarket chain that caters to a great deal of liberal-minded people with money, don’t rail against the evils of health care reform in The Wall Street Journal.”

For others, boycotting the superstore might not be necessary. Jill Richardson, a former Whole Foods employee, posted her thoughts at La Vida Locavore: “First things first about Whole Foods: The CEO, John Mackey, is a nut. He’s a Libertarian, he’s anti-union, and he stupidly went on financial blogs — anonymously — to praise WFM (and he got caught doing it). . . .So is it a shock he just came out with an idiotic and harmful statement about health care? No. Is it an outrage? Yeah. Does it necessitate a boycott of WFM? I don’t know.”

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And check out the New York Times opinionator blog for a sampling of reactions to Mackey’s rant.