Whole Foods, whole baloney CEO

While Whole Foods Market has, indeed, brought welcome changes to American grocery shopping, it's been as much in spite of, rather than due to, its sometimes-loopy CEO, John Mackey, as extensively profiled by the New Yorker.

His latest foot in mouth? Claiming that anthropogenic global warming isn't real, highlighted in this quote:

“Historically, prosperity tends to correlate to warmer temperatures.”

Yep, that would explain the palm trees in Sweden and Switzerland.

Anyway, read the whole story.