Earning its way into “Bettina’s Box of Shame” today is WHOLE FOODS MARKET.

Imagine our surprise, while shopping and looking for frozen, organic spinach we find Whole Foods only carries its own brand and the product comes from CHINA.  When we saw that we totally understood why the Federal Trade Commission sued Whole Foods to keep them from buying Wild Oats Company because they (the FTC) claimed it would be negative and a major loss for smaller organic foods companies because Whole Foods would replace them, as much as possible, with its own brand to the detriment of the organic foods industry.

Sure enough, here we have the beginnings of the truth of the Federal Trade Commissions logic.

It was a shocker to see the only frozen organic spinach in the refrigerated cases at Whole Foods was its own brand and ALL OF IT FROM CHINA.  That was quite a juxtaposition against their many signs around the store about knowing your farm and farmer – buying local – etc.  

Given all the problems we have read about lately from China made me leave the frozen organic spinach on the shelf and buy it from another store where they carried frozen organic spinach from several companies as a “product of U.S.A.” giving me a choice including one from American farms not far from my home.

Keep that up WHOLE FOODS and not only will small American organic food companies be replaced, but so will organic products from large American Companies.

SHAME!! SHAME!! SHAME ON YOU WHOLE FOODS!!!