Detailed Reply to Pollan Letter

by John Mackey, June 26, 2006 | Permalink

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your recent letter to me. I appreciate the fact that you wrote the letter in an overall positive tone. I want to respond to your letter with an equally positive tone and match your efforts in “constructive criticism.” I’ll take your letter section by section, with my responses below each section. I will then conclude by writing about some of the new initiatives Whole Foods Market will be beginning very soon, which I hope you’ll find exciting. I know that I’m very excited about them.

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Michael Pollan’s Response to Whole Foods Market

by John Mackey, June 26, 2006 | Permalink

Last month, John Mackey, the president of Whole Foods, wrote me a letter (also published on the Whole Foods Web site), taking issue with some of the points I have made about his grocery chain-in my book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” in my column for TimesSelect and in some of my public remarks. What follows is my response to Mr. Mackey.
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