June 25, 2006

CHARLES TOWN?:

America's new healthy eaters find an unlikely ally: Wal-Mart (Largest retailer boosts organic market as nation tackles bulging waistlines (Suzanne Goldenberg in Charles Town, West Virginia, June 26, 2006, The Guardian)

[M]s Smoot, 27, a stay-at-home mother who changed her diet last October after developing high blood sugar, says she is determined to eat better. Dinner tonight is low-carb salmon wraps, a mozzarella and tomato salad, and soy milk smoothies. "We are trying to eat a little more healthy - nothing canned or frozen," says her sister, Amber.

Families like the Smoots were part of Wal-Mart's calculation when the world's largest retailer announced last April that it would begin selling organic food at its famously low prices, charging a 10% premium over non-organic.

Organic food for the masses has arrived...


In order to be surprised you have to have bought into the Left's paranoia about Wal-Mart in the first place.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 25, 2006 9:08 PM
Comments

How egalitarian, is nothing sacred? Wal-Mart cheaper than Whole Foods, the unwashed masses understanding free-range chicken?

Posted by: Sandy P at June 25, 2006 9:21 PM

Mark my words, the right-thinking will soon be leaving price tags and receipts on their tables to prove their purity to their dinner guests.

Posted by: Pontius at June 25, 2006 11:22 PM

When I was driving on vacation a couple of week ago, I actually heard an activist criticize Wal-Mart because the volume of organic food they'd be selling would create "oppressive" organic food mega-farms that would lower prices and force other chains like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's to compete. The guy didn't really care that people would be able to eat healthier foods at lower prices; he wanted to bash Wal-Mart for their future confinment of organically-fed chickens (so you can expect the cache for free-range chickens among these types to really soar in the next few months, if it means they have another weapon to club the Walton family's chain with).

Posted by: John at June 26, 2006 10:18 AM

Of course, the soy milk smoothie probably is loaded with sugar, but hey, the diabetes and insulin resistance won't be a problem till later in life...

In the meantime, the soy is SO healthy! And it's especially good when they add more sugar to make it taste better! :)

Posted by: kevin whited at June 26, 2006 12:13 PM
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