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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 666px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/burgerking-london.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/burgerking-london.jpg\" alt=\"Signs point to tourist destinations outside a Burger King in London. Photo: michaelpickard/Flickr\" width=\"666\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55817\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs point to tourist destinations outside a Burger King in London. Photo: michaelpickard/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/02/20130201_atc_14.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Post by Vicki Barker,\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/01/170873657/wheres-the-beef-burger-king-finds-horsemeat-in-its-patties\">\u003cstrong>The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (2/1/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burger King has acknowledged this week that some of its burgers in Britain and Ireland included horsemeat, the latest development in an ongoing scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horsemeat actually contains just as much protein and f\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2882581/\">ar less fat\u003c/a> than beef, according to nutritionists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burger King says it found trace levels of horse DNA in four samples from its Irish meat supplier, Silvercrest, but \"this product was never sold to our restaurants,\" the company said in a \u003ca href=\"http://prnewswire.netpr.pl/en/pr/233561/burger-king-worldwide-concludes-investigation-of-silvercrest-foods\">statement\u003c/a>. Nevertheless, Burger King's admission has prompted a Twitter campaign and \u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/feb/01/horsemeat-scandal-burger-king\">threats of a boycott\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The horsemeat controversy is Britain's worst food scandal since mad cow disease in the 1990s. But this time around, the potential danger isn't to Britons' physical health, but their emotional well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For as long as a year, British consumers who thought they were buying beef products may have been unknowingly eating pork and horse, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irish food safety officials broke the news in mid-January, when they said 23 out of 27 beef burgers sampled were found to contain pig DNA, and 10 also contained horse DNA. The meat had been marketed across the British Isles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One beef patty, sold by the British grocery giant, Tesco, was 29 percent horsemeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside a Tesco supermarket in West London, Alicia Rodrigues, a Muslim, loads a cart with bags of groceries. She's seen the reports, and says, \"It's horrible. I feel like, wow, it's horrible, horrible, horrible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish and Muslim leaders in Britain have said there's no evidence that any of the pork-contaminated beef was mislabeled as halal or kosher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the greatest expressions of revulsion, here in the U.K., haven't been religious. And they haven't been about pork, but horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Tesco customer, who only gave his first name, Johnny, says he's stopped buying beef burgers altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not eating them any more! Poor old horses, I feel sorry for them, that's all. France and all them countries eat the horsemeat — we don't,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horsemeat is commonly eaten in France and other parts of Europe and the world. But in the U.S. and \u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/jan/16/would-you-eat-horsemeat\">United Kingdom\u003c/a>, horses are more often seen as companions. Indeed, to the average animal-loving, horse-mad Brit, the concept of eating Mr. Ed is abhorrent and positively un-English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Harris, the chef at \u003ca href=\"http://racine-restaurant.com/\">Racine\u003c/a>, a French restaurant in London, said: \"There's misconception that we shouldn't be eating horse, because — the whole pet connotations and companionship that horses give people. And it \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/12/01/143017558/to-kill-or-not-to-kill-horses-that-others-may-eat\">puts them off\u003c/a>. Whereas you go over to the Continent, they don't have quite the same connection. And they appreciate it more for its culinary, rather than its companion, qualities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the adulterated beef has been traced to a single Irish supplier called Silvercrest. Silvercrest seems to have acquired the suspect meat from an unapproved Polish firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food critic \u003ca href=\"http://www.roseprince.co.uk/\">Rose Prince\u003c/a> says the Polish operation probably used horse for two reasons: its cheaper price and its deep red color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Adding it to the meat, you would certainly make it look leaner,\" she said. \"You'd look like you're getting more, and less sort of fatty mince.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Post by Audrey Carlsen, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/26/169708088/well-you-don-t-see-these-health-claims-in-coke-ads-anymore\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/26/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coca-Cola is taking a lot of flak for its new television ad campaign addressing America's obesity epidemic – an epidemic in which sugary sodas are widely fingered as a key culprit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Launched last week, the ads discuss the beverage giant's efforts to combat obesity, while also insisting that Coke products can be part of a healthy lifestyle. Those claims have been met with widespread skepticism and ridicule from \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/14/coca-cola-obesity/1832555/\">public health advocates\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-coca-cola-146573\">advertising world\u003c/a> alike, with words like \"shameless\" and \"chutzpah\" bandied about. As one satirical parody \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHhCP5ad-zM&feature=player_embedded\">video\u003c/a> of one of the new ads put it bluntly: \"Don't drink Coke – it's killing you, and your family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/01/coca-cola-fights-obesity-oh-please/\">debate over the truthiness\u003c/a> of Coca-Cola's new anti-obesity message reminded us that, more than a century ago, the company actually branded itself a maker of \"medicinal tonic.\" Let's go back in time for a moment, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/cocacola-mark-pendergrast1907.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/cocacola-mark-pendergrast1907.jpg\" alt=\"(1907) Courtesy of Mark Pendergrast\" width=\"624\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55515\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(1907) Courtesy of Mark Pendergrast\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This 1907 magazine ad states that Coke \"relieves fatigue without undue stimulation [and] aids digestion. Its use after exercise is especially healthful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... And \u003cem>during\u003c/em> exercise, too, apparently. (Golf, anyone?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/cocacola-tom-bates1906.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/cocacola-tom-bates1906.jpg\" alt=\"(1906) Courtesy of Tom Bates\" width=\"624\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55517\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(1906) Courtesy of Tom Bates\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other ads promised Coca-Cola would have the power to revitalize both the mind and body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/cocacola-galakospeculoos1890s.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/cocacola-galakospeculoos1890s.jpg\" alt=\"(1890s) Galakospeculoos\" width=\"624\" height=\"462\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55514\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(1890s) Galakospeculoos\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Studying? Shopping? Sight-seeing? Coke offered to \"revive and refresh\" and relieve your fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/cocacola-tom-bates1905.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/cocacola-tom-bates1905.jpg\" alt=\"(1905, 1905, 1906) Courtesy of Tom Bates\" width=\"624\" height=\"284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55516\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(1905, 1905, 1906) Courtesy of Tom Bates\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the most disturbing claim, at least to our modern minds, comes from this vintage ad not for Coca-Cola but its forebear, Vin Mariani – a Bordeaux wine containing six milligrams of cocaine per fluid ounce. (That's one way to get a baby to sleep through the night.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/coke-baby.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/coke-baby.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy of Mark Pendergrast\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55513\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Mark Pendergrast\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his unauthorized history of the company,\u003cem> For God, Country and Coca-Cola,\u003c/em> author \u003ca href=\"http://markpendergrast.com/coca-cola\">Mark Pendergras\u003cem>\u003c/em>t\u003c/a> recounts that Coca-Cola inventor John Pemberton released his famous drink in 1886 as a nonalcoholic beverage inspired by this coca wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comparison to these old ads, the health claims in Coca-Cola's new anti-obesity ad campaign seem almost harmless. 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Forklifts crisscross each other carrying peppers, squash and especially tomatoes from trucks backed into the warehouse loading dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55067\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/tomatoes.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/tomatoes-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Boxes of tomatoes are for sale in an open air market in Immokalee, Fla. Photo: J. Pat \" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55067\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of tomatoes are for sale in an open air market in Immokalee, Fla. Photo: J. 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That was supposed to protect Florida tomato growers from cheap Mexican tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Florida sales have dropped in half anyway, to as little as $250 million a year, while Mexican sales have tripled to more than $1.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reggie Brown, who heads the Florida Tomato Exchange, says Mexican growers have been dumping tomatoes — selling them for less than it costs to produce them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Mexican industry has for significant periods dumped product into the U.S. market during the 16 years of the agreement,\" Brown says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Florida growers are pushing the Obama administration to end the price agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What would happen if the suspension agreement went away is free trade would truly exist between Mexico and the U.S. in the tomato industry,\" Brown says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lance Jungmeyer, who heads the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, which represents the Mexican tomato industry, says Mexico is not dumping tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be impossible to sustain hundreds perhaps thousands of Mexican tomato companies for years on end selling below their cost. They wouldn't be able to do that,\" Jungmeyer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the tomato agreement goes away, though, Florida would be free to file an anti-dumping case against Mexico. If that happens, the Commerce Department can impose punitive tariffs on Mexican tomatoes — making them much more expensive and giving Florida an edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico could then put heavy tariffs on billions of dollars in products the U.S. sells there: pork, beef and corn. 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(Call it a presidential tradition: Apparently, Abraham Lincoln enjoyed \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Document-Deep-Dive-The-Menu-From-President-Lincolns-Second-Inaugural-Ball-186938191.html\">five courses of meat\u003c/a> after his second inaugural.) But for most of us little people, it's often been long lines for cold food, just for a chance to see POTUS and FLOTUS take an awkward spin onstage for a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you go the unofficial ball route, there's bound to be interesting food aplenty. Here are a few exceptions we bet will beat the rubber chicken brigade:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.birchandbarley.com/\">ChurchKey's Inaugural Brewer's Ball\u003c/a>: As you might imagine, this \"ball\" at a hot restaurant in Logan Circle will focus on beer of all kinds, but it will also feature pastries, because executive chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac are hosting. \"Oysters with green apple mignonette, pulled pork on corn grits, house-made charcuterie and cheese\" will be served, says Megan Bailey, director of public relations for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, which runs ChurchKey. Tickets are $150 for the Monday night event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ambassadorsinauguralball.com/\">2013 Ambassadors Inaugural Ball\u003c/a> will be held at the Washington Historical Society Monday night, right across from the commander in chief's official ball. \"We wanted to give our guests the feeling of being as close to the action as possible,\" says spokeswoman Trea Day. It's sponsored by the various embassies around town and will nod to the exotic flavors of their various countries through desserts incorporating cayenne, curry and saffron. Plus Biz Markie entertains!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are the various state society balls, the most famous being Texas' \u003ca href=\"https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/StartPage.aspx?Site=tss&WebCode=HomePage\">Black Tie & Boots Inaugural Ball\u003c/a>, especially when the Bushes were in town. This year, it's being held on Saturday night in Maryland, at the Gaylord National Resort at National Harbor. 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Few of us would like to think that our dinner suffered during preparation, but still, we can't help but be a little curious. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal behavior professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofBiologicalSciences/People/ProfessorRWElwood/\">Robert Elwood\u003c/a> of Queen's University in Belfast, U.K., starting thinking about this crustacean sensation after he met \u003ca href=\"http://www.rickstein.com/Biography.html\">Rick Stein\u003c/a>, a well-known English chef and restaurateur known for his fish-forward fare. Stein asked Elwood if crabs felt pain. \"I thought it was a very strange question,\" Elwood says. And he didn't have an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because determining whether a creature feels pain can be difficult. \"One might assume with higher mammals that it's very similar to humans,\" says Elwood. But other, simpler animals, like crabs, are more of a puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because what looks like pain could just be a phenomenon called nociception, which is when a body reacts automatically to stimuli that has the potential to damage tissue. \"It's quite possible that animals have the ability to act simply by reflex,\" Elwood says, similar to the way you might pull your hand away from a hot plate without being aware that it's hot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actual pain, though, requires learning, Elwood says, because its purpose it to help a creature avoid future painful and damaging experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so scientists have come up with a list of criteria for what pain might look like in an invertebrate: whether the animal rubs itself, if it gives up essential resources to avoid the potentially painful experience, and if can learn to avoid them in the future. \"If it does that, it's clearly making decisions,\" Elwood says. The animal, probably, feels pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years back, Elwood \u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/08/animalrights.sciencenews\">found that prawns\u003c/a> would begin grooming and rubbing themselves when they had acetic acid dabbed onto their tentacles. And hermit crabs that are shocked out of their shells likewise show \u003ca href=\"http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/27/crab-lobster-pain.html\">stress-related behavior\u003c/a> after the incident, such as grooming their abdomens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a \u003ca href=\"http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/3/353\">study\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>published this week in the \u003cem>Journal of Experimental Biology\u003c/em>, Elwood reports that crustaceans exhibit the learning component of pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the experiment, Elwood and student Barry Magee got a bunch of common British \u003ca href=\"http://www.arkive.org/common-shore-crab/carcinus-maenas/\">shore crabs\u003c/a>. They took a crab and placed it in a tank that had two dark shelters (crabs love the dark), one of which was wired to give its occupant a mild electric shock. The crab picked a shelter, got its shock or not, and then was removed from the tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A short while later, the researchers put the crab back into the tank and let it choose again. By the time that crab had been shocked twice, it had learned to avoid the wired hideaway and pick the safer one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To our surprise, the data are consistent with pain,\" Elwood says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Elwood were to respond to Stein today, he'd say that crabs do feel pain. Probably. Elwood hasn't yet looked at stress hormones in crabs to see if they change in response to the electrical shock or other potentially painful experience — another key sign that actual pain is occurring. And if there's no difference in the hormones, \"it would speak against pain,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what this might mean for those of us who occasionally dispatch a crustacean or two, the best way to minimize potential pain\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong> is likely electrocution or \u003ca href=\"http://www.trevorcorson.com/old_blog/2005/12/how-to-kill-lobster-dedicated-to-david.html\">driving a knife\u003c/a> through the creature's brain, Elwood says. But as most of us lack specialized machinery and knowledge of crustacean anatomy, the easiest\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong> way is still dropping the crab in a pot of boiling water. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">2013 National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/wholefoods.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/wholefoods.jpg\" alt=\"Whole Foods has more than 300 stores and continues to expand. Photo: Harry Cabluck/AP\" title=\"Whole Foods has more than 300 stores and continues to expand. Photo: Harry Cabluck/AP\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54635\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whole Foods has more than 300 stores and continues to expand. Photo: Harry Cabluck/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/140874239/april-fulton\">April Fulton\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/16/169413848/whole-foods-founder-john-mackey-on-fascism-and-conscious-capitalism\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to Part 1 of the story from NPR's Morning Edition (1/16/13):\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhole Foods Founder John Mackey On Fascism And 'Conscious Capitalism'\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/01/20130116_me_13.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/\">Whole Foods\u003c/a> has played a key role in propelling organic foods into the mainstream. The specialty supermarket chain has more than 300 stores and plans to continue expanding. But outspoken founder and co-CEO John Mackey is not the crunchy granola liberal one might conjure while perusing aisles of earnestly labeled blue corn chips and gently misted red peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, he's a self-styled libertarian: a vegan who sells sustainably raised meat, a man who compares the government's health care overhaul to \"fascism\" but wants to improve American diets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he thinks big businesses have an obligation to change customers' perception that big corporations are \"primarily selfish and greedy.\" (Not that he's opposed to profits. In fact, Whole Foods posted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/whole-foods-profit-up-49-raises-dividend-2012-11-07\">49 percent boost in quarterly earnings\u003c/a> in November.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mackey sat down with \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> host Steve Inskeep to discuss his philosophy and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Capitalism-Liberating-Heroic-Business/dp/1422144208\">new book\u003c/a> he co-authored, \u003cem>Conscious Capitalism\u003c/em>. Part 1 airs Wednesday, Part 2 on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to Part 2 of the story from NPR's Morning Edition (1/17/13):\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhole Foods CEO Expects Health Care Costs To Rise\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/01/20130117_me_14.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mackey tells Inskeep that companies must have a higher purpose than just making money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54636\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 224px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/johnmackey.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/johnmackey-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"John Mackey is co-CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market and co-founder of the nonprofit Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Photo: Whole Foods Market/Courtesy Harvard Business Review Press\" title=\"John Mackey is co-CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market and co-founder of the nonprofit Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Photo: Whole Foods Market/Courtesy Harvard Business Review Press\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54636\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mackey is co-CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market and co-founder of the nonprofit Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Photo: Whole Foods Market/Courtesy Harvard Business Review Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, when Whole Foods decided it wanted to stop selling overfished species of cod and octopus at its seafood counters, it didn't just abruptly cut off its suppliers. Instead, the company gave its suppliers three years to come up with a better way of fishing; during that time, the seafood stayed for sale — but with a label of \"unsustainable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Whole Foods, working with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.msc.org/\">Marine Stewardship Council\u003c/a> (we'll have much more on them later), was able to find one supplier of sustainable cod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You take a risk when you do that because some of your customers ... who don't care about sustainability, they're going to go shop at your competitor's store who has the fish, so you lose some business that way,\" Mackey says. \"But it was the right thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he doesn't think is right is President Obama's health overhaul and the new costs that coverage requirements will place on businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Inskeep asks him if he still thinks the health law is a form of socialism, as he's \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html\">said before\u003c/a>, Mackey responds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technically speaking, it's more like fascism. Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it — and that's what's happening with our health care programs and these reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/169411919/conscious-capitalism-liberating-the-heroic-spirit-of-business\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/conscious-capitalism-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia\" title=\"Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-54637\">\u003c/a>Still, Mackey sees room to cooperate with the administration on another front: efforts to reform the American diet, a pet project of first lady Michelle Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People in America are addicted to sugar, and to fat and to salt,\" he says, and as a nation, it's holding us back. \"Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he acknowledges how hard it can be to stick to a health-conscious diet. Restaurant meals, he says, rarely meet his personal dietary rules — not just no meat, but also no oil or refined flour. Luckily, Mackey jokes, there's a Whole Foods to be found wherever he travels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So our question to you, dear readers, is this: How big a role does a business leader's personal philosophy play in your decision to buy products from his or her company? Tell us in the comments section below. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRANSCRIPT FROM MORNING EDITION PROGRAM (Part 1):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you start your own company, it becomes an extension of yourself, an expression of your habits, your beliefs, your quirks. When John Mackey started a health food grocery store decades ago, he hoped to make it an extension of his values. Now that John Mackey's Whole Foods market is a nationwide chain with countless customers, stockholders and suppliers to please, that is hard work. Yet Mackey still tries to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a new book, he defends the virtues of capitalism, even if capitalism's vices have been exposed in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JOHN MACKEY: Even if its goal is to maximize profits, it's not as if business can just do whatever the hell it wants to do, because people exchange with it voluntarily, and that acts to discipline some of the selfishness and greed that a corporation might have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: John Mackey is co-author of a new book called \"Conscious Capitalism.\" It's sort of a new-age capitalist credo about how companies can become enlightened, and along the way improve the public's image of big corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did large corporations fall into such public disfavor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: The biggest reason is people have a tendency to distrust what is large and powerful. But then I think mostly, it's the philosophy of why business exists in the first place. That philosophy of maximizing profits and shareholder value means that many people see corporations as primarily selfish and greedy, that they're out there just to make as much money as possible, and they don't apparently care about anybody else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that's a caricature. I don't think it's completely accurate. But business has not done enough to disavow that. It has not been able to embrace a more comprehensive, positive philosophy, which is what our book tries to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Aren't there a lot of corporations that do focus primarily on maximizing shareholder value and, in fact, they think that the whole legal framework of the United States requires them to be that way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: Many corporations do think that way. But because business is inherently connected through stakeholders and to interdependent systems, you can't maximize profits unless you are creating value for your customers. The art of good conscious business leadership is to look for the win-win-win-win strategies so that all the stakeholders can simultaneously be winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: You said another thing there: conscious business. What do you mean by a conscious business?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: A conscious business is one who understands, one, that it has a higher purpose besides just making money, and number two, it understands how these stakeholders are connected together in a larger business system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Can you think of a moment in the last couple of decades where you felt that you faced a decision point, a choice - you know, I could make more money this way, but I would become the evil company I don't ever want to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: I think you face those choices on a regular basis. Seldom in the decisions that you make in business is it clearly black-and-white, good-versus-evil. Mostly, it's kind of on the fringe, on the periphery. But our company made a decision to get rid of what we call unsustainable seafood, red-rated seafood species that Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute - two organizations we work with - had labeled these species as unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: They're being overfished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: They're being overfished. Exactly. So we labeled it unsustainable, and we made a decision that we would phase them out. I think it was over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: What were some of the fish that I would have found at a Whole Foods seafood counter that were labeled this way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: Octopus, cod, Atlantic cod, which used to be the most abundant fish in the Western Hemisphere. In pre-Columbian times, it was the basis of the whole New England fishing industry, and 95 percent of the stocks are down from what they were a couple hundred years ago. So those are a couple of examples. And we actually are very proud of the fact that we discontinued selling those species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people were very happy about that, but then again you take a risk when you do that, because some of your customers are going to go shop - who don't care about sustainability - they're going to go shop at your competitor's store who has the fish. So you lose some business that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Every phase of that decision must have been complicated. You said that you decided to phase it out, which meant that for a while, you were labeling these products and selling them, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: And being criticized for doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: For being a gradualist, basically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: Well, the advantage of doing it that way is it's a compromise. You have your internal argument, your internal discussion, where the seafood people might be saying we can't afford to lose those sales, and the other people saying we can't afford to continue to sell fish that's not sustainable. So the compromise is, is OK, we're going to get rid of it, but we'll give you three years to find a sustainable alternative to it - a substitute, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in fact, in the case of cod, for example, we found the Marine Stewardship Council, which is a sustainability certifying agency, international, that Whole Foods has worked with for years, actually was able to certify one fishery of cod as sustainable. So we were able to still sell cod from this sustainable fishery. That was a good example of by giving it a little bit of time, our buyers were able to find an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Because, in the end, you're in a marketplace, and you need to make a profit, whatever your values might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: No. You've, once again, gone back to the tradeoff thinking, that there must be conflict. There must be a tradeoff that has to happen here, whereas I've just given you the opposite. I've given you an example where we were able to do the win-win, where we were able to maintain sustainability at the same time that we were able to meet our customers' desire to have this seafood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Well, it was a compromise, as you said, to use your word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: It was a compromise internally while we sought the win-win. Sometimes there are tradeoffs, but that's just a failure of creativity, a failure of imagination. In this example, there was no failure. We were able to find the win-win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: And I'm just thinking in terms of trying to do business while keeping a higher purpose in mind. Everybody knows about the effect that activist stockholders have had on corporations that do have to look over their shoulders and think about shareholder value and make difficult decisions with that in mind. Since you've been public for a couple of decades, I'm curious how, if at all, you've been able to dodge the occasional investor who says: Look, you're wasting a lot of money on these idealistic schemes. I want a better dividend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: We haven't necessarily dodged it. The investors, of course, do want us to make more money, and they do want higher dividends and they want the stock price to go up. But I will say on balance that the investor-stakeholder is the easiest stakeholder to get along with. The stakeholder that complains the most, of course, are our customers. We have a lot more customers than we have investors in our company, and they have lots of alternatives in the marketplace they can shop at. So they're not shy to tell us what they don't like when we're doing things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Why aren't you selling this product? Why are you charging that price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: Yes. Or why are you selling that product? Like, even in this conversation today, when I said, well, we're going phase out the red-rated species over a three-year period, customers want lower prices and higher quality. Employees want higher wages and better benefits and better working conditions. Suppliers want to give fewer discounts and want you to pick up more of their products. Communities want more donations. Governments want higher taxes. Investors want higher dividends and higher stock price. Every one of the stakeholders wants more. They always want more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: John Mackey is co-CEO of Whole Foods Market. As we've heard, he speaks his mind, and a few years ago, Mackey famously warned against President Obama's healthcare plan, writing an article that included the word socialism. When we spoke with Mackey, he'd moved on to another word for the health law: fascism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it. And that's what's happening with these reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: And we'll hear that argument from John Mackey tomorrow, as we continue our conversation right here on MORNING EDITION, from NPR News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\n\u003cem>Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mackey tells Inskeep that companies must have a higher purpose than just making money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54636\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 224px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/johnmackey.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/johnmackey-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"John Mackey is co-CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market and co-founder of the nonprofit Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Photo: Whole Foods Market/Courtesy Harvard Business Review Press\" title=\"John Mackey is co-CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market and co-founder of the nonprofit Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Photo: Whole Foods Market/Courtesy Harvard Business Review Press\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54636\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mackey is co-CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market and co-founder of the nonprofit Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Photo: Whole Foods Market/Courtesy Harvard Business Review Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, when Whole Foods decided it wanted to stop selling overfished species of cod and octopus at its seafood counters, it didn't just abruptly cut off its suppliers. Instead, the company gave its suppliers three years to come up with a better way of fishing; during that time, the seafood stayed for sale — but with a label of \"unsustainable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Whole Foods, working with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.msc.org/\">Marine Stewardship Council\u003c/a> (we'll have much more on them later), was able to find one supplier of sustainable cod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You take a risk when you do that because some of your customers ... who don't care about sustainability, they're going to go shop at your competitor's store who has the fish, so you lose some business that way,\" Mackey says. \"But it was the right thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he doesn't think is right is President Obama's health overhaul and the new costs that coverage requirements will place on businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Inskeep asks him if he still thinks the health law is a form of socialism, as he's \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html\">said before\u003c/a>, Mackey responds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technically speaking, it's more like fascism. Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it — and that's what's happening with our health care programs and these reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/169411919/conscious-capitalism-liberating-the-heroic-spirit-of-business\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/conscious-capitalism-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia\" title=\"Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-54637\">\u003c/a>Still, Mackey sees room to cooperate with the administration on another front: efforts to reform the American diet, a pet project of first lady Michelle Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People in America are addicted to sugar, and to fat and to salt,\" he says, and as a nation, it's holding us back. \"Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he acknowledges how hard it can be to stick to a health-conscious diet. Restaurant meals, he says, rarely meet his personal dietary rules — not just no meat, but also no oil or refined flour. Luckily, Mackey jokes, there's a Whole Foods to be found wherever he travels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So our question to you, dear readers, is this: How big a role does a business leader's personal philosophy play in your decision to buy products from his or her company? Tell us in the comments section below. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TRANSCRIPT FROM MORNING EDITION PROGRAM (Part 1):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you start your own company, it becomes an extension of yourself, an expression of your habits, your beliefs, your quirks. When John Mackey started a health food grocery store decades ago, he hoped to make it an extension of his values. Now that John Mackey's Whole Foods market is a nationwide chain with countless customers, stockholders and suppliers to please, that is hard work. Yet Mackey still tries to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a new book, he defends the virtues of capitalism, even if capitalism's vices have been exposed in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JOHN MACKEY: Even if its goal is to maximize profits, it's not as if business can just do whatever the hell it wants to do, because people exchange with it voluntarily, and that acts to discipline some of the selfishness and greed that a corporation might have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: John Mackey is co-author of a new book called \"Conscious Capitalism.\" It's sort of a new-age capitalist credo about how companies can become enlightened, and along the way improve the public's image of big corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did large corporations fall into such public disfavor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: The biggest reason is people have a tendency to distrust what is large and powerful. But then I think mostly, it's the philosophy of why business exists in the first place. That philosophy of maximizing profits and shareholder value means that many people see corporations as primarily selfish and greedy, that they're out there just to make as much money as possible, and they don't apparently care about anybody else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that's a caricature. I don't think it's completely accurate. But business has not done enough to disavow that. It has not been able to embrace a more comprehensive, positive philosophy, which is what our book tries to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Aren't there a lot of corporations that do focus primarily on maximizing shareholder value and, in fact, they think that the whole legal framework of the United States requires them to be that way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: Many corporations do think that way. But because business is inherently connected through stakeholders and to interdependent systems, you can't maximize profits unless you are creating value for your customers. The art of good conscious business leadership is to look for the win-win-win-win strategies so that all the stakeholders can simultaneously be winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: You said another thing there: conscious business. What do you mean by a conscious business?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: A conscious business is one who understands, one, that it has a higher purpose besides just making money, and number two, it understands how these stakeholders are connected together in a larger business system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Can you think of a moment in the last couple of decades where you felt that you faced a decision point, a choice - you know, I could make more money this way, but I would become the evil company I don't ever want to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: I think you face those choices on a regular basis. Seldom in the decisions that you make in business is it clearly black-and-white, good-versus-evil. Mostly, it's kind of on the fringe, on the periphery. But our company made a decision to get rid of what we call unsustainable seafood, red-rated seafood species that Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute - two organizations we work with - had labeled these species as unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: They're being overfished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: They're being overfished. Exactly. So we labeled it unsustainable, and we made a decision that we would phase them out. I think it was over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: What were some of the fish that I would have found at a Whole Foods seafood counter that were labeled this way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: Octopus, cod, Atlantic cod, which used to be the most abundant fish in the Western Hemisphere. In pre-Columbian times, it was the basis of the whole New England fishing industry, and 95 percent of the stocks are down from what they were a couple hundred years ago. So those are a couple of examples. And we actually are very proud of the fact that we discontinued selling those species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people were very happy about that, but then again you take a risk when you do that, because some of your customers are going to go shop - who don't care about sustainability - they're going to go shop at your competitor's store who has the fish. So you lose some business that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Every phase of that decision must have been complicated. You said that you decided to phase it out, which meant that for a while, you were labeling these products and selling them, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: And being criticized for doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: For being a gradualist, basically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: Well, the advantage of doing it that way is it's a compromise. You have your internal argument, your internal discussion, where the seafood people might be saying we can't afford to lose those sales, and the other people saying we can't afford to continue to sell fish that's not sustainable. So the compromise is, is OK, we're going to get rid of it, but we'll give you three years to find a sustainable alternative to it - a substitute, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in fact, in the case of cod, for example, we found the Marine Stewardship Council, which is a sustainability certifying agency, international, that Whole Foods has worked with for years, actually was able to certify one fishery of cod as sustainable. So we were able to still sell cod from this sustainable fishery. That was a good example of by giving it a little bit of time, our buyers were able to find an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Because, in the end, you're in a marketplace, and you need to make a profit, whatever your values might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: No. You've, once again, gone back to the tradeoff thinking, that there must be conflict. There must be a tradeoff that has to happen here, whereas I've just given you the opposite. I've given you an example where we were able to do the win-win, where we were able to maintain sustainability at the same time that we were able to meet our customers' desire to have this seafood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Well, it was a compromise, as you said, to use your word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: It was a compromise internally while we sought the win-win. Sometimes there are tradeoffs, but that's just a failure of creativity, a failure of imagination. In this example, there was no failure. We were able to find the win-win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: And I'm just thinking in terms of trying to do business while keeping a higher purpose in mind. Everybody knows about the effect that activist stockholders have had on corporations that do have to look over their shoulders and think about shareholder value and make difficult decisions with that in mind. Since you've been public for a couple of decades, I'm curious how, if at all, you've been able to dodge the occasional investor who says: Look, you're wasting a lot of money on these idealistic schemes. I want a better dividend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: We haven't necessarily dodged it. The investors, of course, do want us to make more money, and they do want higher dividends and they want the stock price to go up. But I will say on balance that the investor-stakeholder is the easiest stakeholder to get along with. The stakeholder that complains the most, of course, are our customers. We have a lot more customers than we have investors in our company, and they have lots of alternatives in the marketplace they can shop at. So they're not shy to tell us what they don't like when we're doing things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: Why aren't you selling this product? Why are you charging that price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: Yes. Or why are you selling that product? Like, even in this conversation today, when I said, well, we're going phase out the red-rated species over a three-year period, customers want lower prices and higher quality. Employees want higher wages and better benefits and better working conditions. Suppliers want to give fewer discounts and want you to pick up more of their products. Communities want more donations. Governments want higher taxes. Investors want higher dividends and higher stock price. Every one of the stakeholders wants more. They always want more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: John Mackey is co-CEO of Whole Foods Market. As we've heard, he speaks his mind, and a few years ago, Mackey famously warned against President Obama's healthcare plan, writing an article that included the word socialism. When we spoke with Mackey, he'd moved on to another word for the health law: fascism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACKEY: In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it. And that's what's happening with these reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INSKEEP: And we'll hear that argument from John Mackey tomorrow, as we continue our conversation right here on MORNING EDITION, from NPR News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-roundup_wide.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-roundup_wide.jpg\" alt=\"To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\" title=\"To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/14/169318303/monsanto-lawyer-suggests-new-standard-for-suing-farmers\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the biotech giant Monsanto has provoked outrage among its critics for \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Monsanto-v-US-Farmer-2010-Update-v.-2.pdf\">suing\u003c/a> farmers who save and replant seeds, such as soybeans and canola, from the company's patented Roundup Ready crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that outrage is based on a decade-old case in Canada, in which a court \u003ca href=\"http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/en/2001/2001fct256/2001fct256.html\">ruled\u003c/a> that a farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.percyschmeiser.com/\">Percy Schmeiser\u003c/a>, violated Monsanto's patents by planting canola that he \"knew or ought to have known\" contained Monsanto's Roundup Ready gene. Schmeiser argued that he didn't want the gene in his fields, and that it had become incorporated into his canola via wind-blown pollen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto won that case, but the company might have been better off losing because the victory has been a public relations disaster. Around the world, many people now believe, mistakenly, that Monsanto is suing farmers for growing patented seeds that wandered into their fields without the farmers' knowledge and against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it caught our attention last week when a lawyer representing Monsanto in federal court seemed to admit that suing Schmeiser had been a mistake that the company would not repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer for Monsanto, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wilmerhale.com/seth_waxman/\">Seth Waxman\u003c/a>, was being questioned by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/judges/william-c-bryson-circuit-judge.html\">Judge William Bryson\u003c/a>, from the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit. In the case, a group of mostly organic farmers had hauled Monsanto into court, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pubpat.org/monsanto-seed-patents.htm\">claiming\u003c/a> that they are being damaged by the possibility that Monsanto might sue them. Bryson wanted to know what actions would convince Monsanto to sue a farmer, and Waxman came up with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"In the real world, Judge Bryson, the cases Monsanto brings are cases in which it has come to learn that the farmer is not purchasing any Roundup Ready seed, but is spraying his fields with Roundup, and the plants are surviving. If the farmer were not spraying, by definition he wouldn't be taking advantage of Monsanto's technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-gmosoybeans.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-gmosoybeans-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\" title=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54598\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Waxman's common-sense standard, Monsanto wouldn't have brought its case against Schmeiser. That's because in that case, the company did not produce any evidence that Schmeiser was taking advantage of Monsanto's technology by spraying his crop with Roundup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We called several lawyers to see whether Waxman's statement in court had any legal standing and would prevent any Schmeiser-style lawsuits in the future. They tell us that Monsanto isn't bound by Waxman's words because he's just a hired lawyer thinking on his feet in a courtroom, not a company executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judges in this case, however, might conceivably take up this point in their eventual decision. If they follow Waxman's lead and write, for instance, that farmers don't infringe Monsanto's patents unless they are \"taking advantage\" of those genes and getting some benefit from them, it would be more significant. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/MemberContentDisplay.aspx?ccmd=ContentDisplay&ucmd=UserDisplay&userid=80\">Daniel Ravicher\u003c/a>, who argued the case against Monsanto for the group of organic farmers, says even such an opinion wouldn't completely change the legal landscape because other judges, in other courts, still could disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the battle continues. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-roundup_wide.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-roundup_wide.jpg\" alt=\"To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\" title=\"To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/14/169318303/monsanto-lawyer-suggests-new-standard-for-suing-farmers\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the biotech giant Monsanto has provoked outrage among its critics for \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Monsanto-v-US-Farmer-2010-Update-v.-2.pdf\">suing\u003c/a> farmers who save and replant seeds, such as soybeans and canola, from the company's patented Roundup Ready crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that outrage is based on a decade-old case in Canada, in which a court \u003ca href=\"http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/en/2001/2001fct256/2001fct256.html\">ruled\u003c/a> that a farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.percyschmeiser.com/\">Percy Schmeiser\u003c/a>, violated Monsanto's patents by planting canola that he \"knew or ought to have known\" contained Monsanto's Roundup Ready gene. Schmeiser argued that he didn't want the gene in his fields, and that it had become incorporated into his canola via wind-blown pollen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto won that case, but the company might have been better off losing because the victory has been a public relations disaster. Around the world, many people now believe, mistakenly, that Monsanto is suing farmers for growing patented seeds that wandered into their fields without the farmers' knowledge and against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it caught our attention last week when a lawyer representing Monsanto in federal court seemed to admit that suing Schmeiser had been a mistake that the company would not repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer for Monsanto, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wilmerhale.com/seth_waxman/\">Seth Waxman\u003c/a>, was being questioned by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/judges/william-c-bryson-circuit-judge.html\">Judge William Bryson\u003c/a>, from the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit. In the case, a group of mostly organic farmers had hauled Monsanto into court, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pubpat.org/monsanto-seed-patents.htm\">claiming\u003c/a> that they are being damaged by the possibility that Monsanto might sue them. Bryson wanted to know what actions would convince Monsanto to sue a farmer, and Waxman came up with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"In the real world, Judge Bryson, the cases Monsanto brings are cases in which it has come to learn that the farmer is not purchasing any Roundup Ready seed, but is spraying his fields with Roundup, and the plants are surviving. If the farmer were not spraying, by definition he wouldn't be taking advantage of Monsanto's technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-gmosoybeans.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-gmosoybeans-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\" title=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54598\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Waxman's common-sense standard, Monsanto wouldn't have brought its case against Schmeiser. That's because in that case, the company did not produce any evidence that Schmeiser was taking advantage of Monsanto's technology by spraying his crop with Roundup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We called several lawyers to see whether Waxman's statement in court had any legal standing and would prevent any Schmeiser-style lawsuits in the future. They tell us that Monsanto isn't bound by Waxman's words because he's just a hired lawyer thinking on his feet in a courtroom, not a company executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judges in this case, however, might conceivably take up this point in their eventual decision. If they follow Waxman's lead and write, for instance, that farmers don't infringe Monsanto's patents unless they are \"taking advantage\" of those genes and getting some benefit from them, it would be more significant. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/MemberContentDisplay.aspx?ccmd=ContentDisplay&ucmd=UserDisplay&userid=80\">Daniel Ravicher\u003c/a>, who argued the case against Monsanto for the group of organic farmers, says even such an opinion wouldn't completely change the legal landscape because other judges, in other courts, still could disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the battle continues. The U.S. Supreme Court is about to take up another high-profile Monsanto seed \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bowman-v-monsanto-co/\">case\u003c/a> involving patent infringement. Oral arguments are scheduled for Feb. 19. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It was the first food allergy-related settlement under ADA in higher education, says a DOJ spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/75920121220161432503826.pdf\">agreement\u003c/a> with DOJ, Lesley is required provide gluten- and allergen-free food options in its dining halls, offer special meal plans for students with allergies, and pay $50,000 in damages to the students who filed the claim in 2009, among other measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Lesley settlement is terrific,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.celiac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163&Itemid=273\">Marilyn Geller\u003c/a>, chief operating officer of the Celiac Disease Foundation, tells The Salt. \"It puts all universities on notice that they're going to have to make these accommodations for students with celiac, gluten sensitivity and other food allergies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food allergies affect about 2 percent of adults and 4 to 8 percent of kids in the U.S., and the number of young people diagnosed with a food allergy has risen in the last decade, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm089307.htm\">according to\u003c/a> the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By applying the ADA to food allergies, the DOJ has essentially turned food into an access issue – akin to providing ramps for students in wheelchairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By not accommodating food allergies, you're barring students from participating in the university,\" says Maria Acebal, a lawyer and spokeswoman for \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodallergy.org/\">Food Allergy Research & Education\u003c/a>, an advocacy group. \"If you can't get safe food, how can you study there?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's gotten easier to make the case that food allergy is a disability since Congress broadened the scope of the ADA in 2008 with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.disability.gov/viewResource?id=13765822\">amendment\u003c/a>. 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