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Trader Joe’s opens it’s doors in La Quinta yesterday. The new store will be 12,000-square-foot.
With a ceremonial lei-cutting by city officials, Monrovia-based Trader Joe’s opened its third Coachella Valley store at 46-400 Washington St., just off Highway 111.
The grocer, under intense customer pressure organized by animal rights activists, said it will no longer put its name on eggs laid by chickens confined to tiny cages.
“Customers looking for cage-free eggs will need to look no further than the Trader Joe’s label,” the company said in a statement.
[Boston Herald]
We take victory one battle at a time.
Wholes Foods is branching out of foods and into clothing and accessories that are free of toxic materials.
Whole Foods Market Inc. said Thursday it was set to open its first “lifestyle” store in California in late October, which will sell clothing, housewares and hemp curtains — everything, it seems, except food.
The lifestyle store will offer products such as organic blue jeans, recycled handbags and paint that is free from potentially harmful compounds.
[MSNBC]
Another blue law is keeping Whole Foods Market from opening this Thanksgiving. Come Thanksgiving you better make sure you have enough free-range turkey and other festive ingredient the day before or your out of luck. David Lannon, president of Whole Foods Market’s North Atlantic Region, plans of opening Thanksgiving Day will have to be scrap.
All this hooha was all started by Shaw‘s Supermarket, a competitor of Whole Foods. According to the Boston Globe, Shaw’s Supermarkets sent a letter to Attorney General Thomas Reilly asking him to look into the matter. As a result of the investigation, the Attorney General’s office issued a letter to Whole Foods Market stating that “Whole Foods would have to keep its doors closed on Thanksgiving or risk criminal charges.”
We believe that allowing Whole Foods to open on Thanksgiving Day will create an unlevel playing field for all other retail grocers,” Shaw’s legal department wrote to Reilly on Nov. 4. “Besides disadvantaging competitors, a Whole Foods opening would harm consumers, due to lack of choice in the marketplace for consumers to shop and compare prices for the best deal.”
Thanks to Shaw’s, people will have to put up will inflated prices at convenient stores, if they even carry organic products that they need to buy at the last minute.
As a parent of a 4 year old, my wife and I are increasingly aware of the type of the foods we give to our child. Not only are we focus on balance diet, but provide him with foods that are as natural as possible. Especially looking at some of the recent studies, we are even more committed to eat more organic products.
ATLANTA – A study led by an Emory University researcher concludes that an organic diet given to children provides a “dramatic and immediate protective effect” against exposures to two pesticides that are commonly used in U.S. agricultural production. The results were published on a recent online version of the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP).
Over a fifteen-day period, Dr. Chensheng “Alex” Lu and his colleagues from Emory University, the University of Washington, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention specifically measured the exposure of two organophosphorus pesticides (OP) – malathion and chlorpyrifos – in 23 elementary students in the Seattle area by testing their urine.
The participants, ages 3-11-years-old, were first monitored for three days on their conventional diets before the researchers substituted most of the children’s conventional diets with organic food items for five consecutive days. The children were then re-introduced to their normal foods and monitored for an additional seven days.
“Immediately after substituting organic food items for the children’s normal diets, the concentration of the organophosphorus pesticides found in their bodies decreased substantially to non-detectable levels until the conventional diets were re-introduced,” says Dr. Lu, an assistant professor in the department of environmental and occupational health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.
During the days when children consumed organic diets, most of their urine samples contained zero concentration for the malathion metabolite. However, once the children returned to their conventional diets, the average malathion metabolite concentration increased to 1.6 parts per billion with a concentration range from 5 to 263 parts per billion, Dr. Lu explains.
Veg News magazine names Whole Foods Market as the Favorite Natural Foods Store for the 4th time in a row.
Austin, Texas — November 16, 2005. For the fourth year in a row, Whole Foods Market was honored as the “Favorite Natural Foods Store” in Veg News magazine’s fourth annual Veggie Awards reader’s poll. The company was also named “Favorite Vegan-Friendly Bakery” by the magazine.
In addition, Veg News honored Whole Foods Market’s CEO and co-founder John Mackey with a first-ever “Corporate Executive of the Year” award. In celebration of the company’s 25th anniversary and in an effort to help achieve more compassionate treatment of farm animals, Mackey and Whole Foods Market established the Animal Compassion Foundation in January 2005. The magazine reports that Mackey is “serious about farmed animal issues and is engaged in the process.”
Veg News is a vegetarian lifestyle magazine. The magazine’s Veggie Awards is an annual reader’s poll of “the best of everything vegetarian” recognizing excellence in the vegetarian industry. In addition to the Editors’ Top Picks of 2005, nearly 10,000 readers cast votes to select 40 categories of favorite products, restaurants, websites, people and places.
Whole Foods Market Inc., the No. 1 natural and organic foods grocer, said Tuesday it may stop selling live lobsters if it cannot implement more humane standards in procuring and selling them.
I applaud Whole Foods commitment to insist humane treatment for animals that it sells.
For this year’s restaurant guide (our third!), we’ve searched the country for extraordinary chefs who eagerly go the extra mile to seek out the best local and organic fruits, vegetables, meats, and fish. Working at establishments that are less than five years old, these visionaries prowl through farmers’ markets, set up connections with heirloom breeders, buy the best fish right off the boat—and then celebrate these gloriously fresh ingredients by cooking them with the thoughtfulness, care, and imagination they deserve. There’s never been a better time to go out and eat!
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