John Mackey, the CEO and founder of Whole Foods, didn’t eat any vegetables growing up.
He discovered his love of veg in his 20s, just a few years before starting the health foods store. Now Mackey shares his story, and the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle, in his new book, The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longetivity.
“In my 20s, I moved into a vegetarian co-op and that was the beginning of my own food consciousness journey. I was a very picky eater. I never ate vegetables, but within a pretty short period of time I became a vegetarian,...
He discovered his love of veg in his 20s, just a few years before starting the health foods store. Now Mackey shares his story, and the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle, in his new book, The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longetivity.
“In my 20s, I moved into a vegetarian co-op and that was the beginning of my own food consciousness journey. I was a very picky eater. I never ate vegetables, but within a pretty short period of time I became a vegetarian,...
- 5/1/2017
- by Julie Mazziotta
- PEOPLE.com
The shocking suicide of disgraced NFL star Aaron Hernandez served as a cold reminder that the 27-year-old convicted murderer once had a promising future.
As a member of the 2008 University of Florida national championship football team, the 19-year-old tight end was playing alongside future NFL players like Cam Newton, Tim Tebow, Deonte Thompson and Mike Pouncey.
“Aaron stood out, even among the football players.” says classmate Katie Benson Sears. “You’ve got to understand that the Gator football players were gods here. They weren’t just big men on campus; they were known in the community. If they went to restaurants,...
As a member of the 2008 University of Florida national championship football team, the 19-year-old tight end was playing alongside future NFL players like Cam Newton, Tim Tebow, Deonte Thompson and Mike Pouncey.
“Aaron stood out, even among the football players.” says classmate Katie Benson Sears. “You’ve got to understand that the Gator football players were gods here. They weren’t just big men on campus; they were known in the community. If they went to restaurants,...
- 4/19/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
For the sake of this particular movie column let’s just consider the media types of news personalities, journalists and reporters as interchangeable. With that in mind Newsmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will look at some of cinema’s top inquirers in the name of getting down to the nitty-gritty in bringing the truth to the forefront.
The movies have intensely, if not sometimes comically, showcased those characters that felt justified in reporting their newsworthy findings in the name of riveting entertainment. Whether spotlighting real-life newsmaker and shakers such as legendary luminaries in Edward R. Murrow to Watergate busters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein or profiling parodies of probing journalists as Natural Born Killer’s Wayne Gale it has been a trippy ride in witnessing cinematic reporters and their excitable exploits.
Perhaps Newmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will be irresponsibly...
The movies have intensely, if not sometimes comically, showcased those characters that felt justified in reporting their newsworthy findings in the name of riveting entertainment. Whether spotlighting real-life newsmaker and shakers such as legendary luminaries in Edward R. Murrow to Watergate busters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein or profiling parodies of probing journalists as Natural Born Killer’s Wayne Gale it has been a trippy ride in witnessing cinematic reporters and their excitable exploits.
Perhaps Newmakers and Media Shakers: Top Ten Reporters in the Movies will be irresponsibly...
- 2/14/2015
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
I've only just now caught up with David Jenkins's interview with Charlie Kaufman for Time Out London in which Jenkins has "asked him about some of the dos, don'ts and more don'ts of his very personalized trade." That alone makes it a must-read, of course, but Kaufman also talks a bit about the project he's working on now, Frank or Francis, noting that "the scope of it and the world it inhabits is very, very large. In the broadest possible sense, it's about online film criticism, but as usual, the world that I'm writing about is not necessarily the world that I'm writing about. It's just a place to set it. There's a lot in there about the internet and anger: cultural, societal and individual anger. And isolation in this particular age we live in. And competition: it's about the idea of people in this world wanting to be seen.
- 9/30/2011
- MUBI
Starring: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt
Directed By: Taylor Hackford
Dolores Claiborne (1995) is gripping and meticulously structured, its multiple subplots held together by yet another screen bursting performance from Kathy Bates.
House maid Dolores’ (Kathy Bates) arrest for the apparent murder of her elderly, cankerous and wealthy employer Vera (Judy Parfitt) provides the premise, though the actual story branches off to incorporate several different subplots, principally one involving the return of Dolores’ estranged daughter, New York journalist Selena (Jennifer Jason Leigh) after fifteen years of absence, and the suggestion that her beleaguered mother may have already killed before.
Shay Cunliffe’s costumes infuse the atmospheric cross-cutting of Taylor Hackford’s direction. With filters employed to represent different eras of the story, such as cold blue for the present and a warm orangey glow for the past, Cunliffe adds to the clarity by broadly varying her costume choices, chiefly for Dolores,...
Directed By: Taylor Hackford
Dolores Claiborne (1995) is gripping and meticulously structured, its multiple subplots held together by yet another screen bursting performance from Kathy Bates.
House maid Dolores’ (Kathy Bates) arrest for the apparent murder of her elderly, cankerous and wealthy employer Vera (Judy Parfitt) provides the premise, though the actual story branches off to incorporate several different subplots, principally one involving the return of Dolores’ estranged daughter, New York journalist Selena (Jennifer Jason Leigh) after fifteen years of absence, and the suggestion that her beleaguered mother may have already killed before.
Shay Cunliffe’s costumes infuse the atmospheric cross-cutting of Taylor Hackford’s direction. With filters employed to represent different eras of the story, such as cold blue for the present and a warm orangey glow for the past, Cunliffe adds to the clarity by broadly varying her costume choices, chiefly for Dolores,...
- 9/6/2010
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
My father, Bob Cuff, who has died aged 87, was a film technician who specialised in matte painting – a post-production technique used to create a background for live action scenes, providing images that would be otherwise impossible or too expensive to shoot. He contributed mattes and other effects to films including The Guns of Navarone, Dr Strangelove and The Life of Brian. His skills also earned him a commission to render Jayne Mansfield's chest more "respectable" for a TV programme in the late 1950s.
Bob was born in Ilford, Essex, and educated at St Paul's school in south-west London. During the second world war, he became a land worker. He did his national service as a psychiatric nurse. After graduating from Camberwell School of Arts in 1951, he joined the special effects department at Shepperton studios, where he formed a lifelong working partnership with the visual effects specialist John Mackey. Between...
Bob was born in Ilford, Essex, and educated at St Paul's school in south-west London. During the second world war, he became a land worker. He did his national service as a psychiatric nurse. After graduating from Camberwell School of Arts in 1951, he joined the special effects department at Shepperton studios, where he formed a lifelong working partnership with the visual effects specialist John Mackey. Between...
- 4/14/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Daily news of note about our Most Innovative Companies, including Whole Foods, Walmart, Facebook, Zappos, and Nintendo
Zappos: The online shoe giant is trying to enter the video e-commerce game, hoping interactive videos of its products will spur sales. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Shoppers can click on items in the clips to see more information, including any current promotions and whether the product is in stock." Zappos is featuring Nike in its first roll out of videos, but intends to eventually upload 50,000 more--though, as Sfc points out, that'd only cover 1% of its products!
Facebook: A unexplained glitch caused a huge mix-up of messages on Facebook, with some accounts being flooded with other people's mail. The inbox-flub only reaffirms critics of Facebook's privacy issues--then again, maybe this is just Zuckerberg's first step toward showing us that privacy is no longer a "social norm."
Nintendo: The company's U.S. president...
Zappos: The online shoe giant is trying to enter the video e-commerce game, hoping interactive videos of its products will spur sales. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Shoppers can click on items in the clips to see more information, including any current promotions and whether the product is in stock." Zappos is featuring Nike in its first roll out of videos, but intends to eventually upload 50,000 more--though, as Sfc points out, that'd only cover 1% of its products!
Facebook: A unexplained glitch caused a huge mix-up of messages on Facebook, with some accounts being flooded with other people's mail. The inbox-flub only reaffirms critics of Facebook's privacy issues--then again, maybe this is just Zuckerberg's first step toward showing us that privacy is no longer a "social norm."
Nintendo: The company's U.S. president...
- 2/26/2010
- by Austin Carr
- Fast Company
Since Whole Foods CEO John Mackey wrote his now-infamous op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about health care this summer, he's been a target. It's unclear whether his own conscious consumers or media heat--first cranked up in mid November for the December issue of Fast Company and in the last few days in The New Yorker and Reason--led him to announce via his blog on Christmas Eve that he was relinquishing his role as Chairman of the Whole Foods board. But something clearly got to him.
"I have held the Chairman title since Whole Foods Market's beginning in 1978, but the reality is that today it is merely a title with no authority or responsibilities," Mackey wrote under the misleadingly benign headline "Latest 8k Filing." "Despite this shift in responsibilities, Whole Foods, along with many other companies with combined CEO/Chairman roles, has been targeted by corporate governance activists for several...
"I have held the Chairman title since Whole Foods Market's beginning in 1978, but the reality is that today it is merely a title with no authority or responsibilities," Mackey wrote under the misleadingly benign headline "Latest 8k Filing." "Despite this shift in responsibilities, Whole Foods, along with many other companies with combined CEO/Chairman roles, has been targeted by corporate governance activists for several...
- 1/1/2010
- by Stephanie Schomer
- Fast Company
Outstanding In His Field During his years at Whole Foods, Mackey has gone from hippie to Libertarian, from crunchy shopkeeper to CEO of an $8 billion retail beast. | Photograph Courtesy of Whole Foods Market
Photograph by Dwight Eschilman
John Mackey, the Libertarian CEO of Whole Foods, says not to worry: Capitalism and the invisible hand will cure the world's ills. But isn't it a little late to start believing in magic?
Building To Scale Jeffrey Hollender recently converted Seventh Generation into a B Corporation, a new for-profit status that imposes social as well as financial goals. | Photograph by Bob O'Connor
Just to be clear, John Mackey isn't Moses. "It's not like you go up to the mountaintop and God talks to you: Here is your purpose -- execute," he says.
"It is something you discover and also create." Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, is riffing on the gospel...
Photograph by Dwight Eschilman
John Mackey, the Libertarian CEO of Whole Foods, says not to worry: Capitalism and the invisible hand will cure the world's ills. But isn't it a little late to start believing in magic?
Building To Scale Jeffrey Hollender recently converted Seventh Generation into a B Corporation, a new for-profit status that imposes social as well as financial goals. | Photograph by Bob O'Connor
Just to be clear, John Mackey isn't Moses. "It's not like you go up to the mountaintop and God talks to you: Here is your purpose -- execute," he says.
"It is something you discover and also create." Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, is riffing on the gospel...
- 12/7/2009
- by Danielle Sacks
- Fast Company
Whether you think public-option health care is a panacea or a slippery slope, you can't deny that the issue has prompted plenty of dialogue (and, okay, invective.) Rather than keeping up on all the bloviating, here are six viral articles about the health care debate that will make you an impromptu expert.
Do we really need a public option?
This article postulates that the Obama administration might be willing to live with public co-op plans instead of a full, government-run health care option. "I think there will be a competitor to private insurers," says Katherine Sebelius, the President's secretary of health and human services. "That's really the essential part, is you don't turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing." Below, Sebelius with Obama in April, courtesy of Reuters.
Learning from Europe
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sick...
Do we really need a public option?
This article postulates that the Obama administration might be willing to live with public co-op plans instead of a full, government-run health care option. "I think there will be a competitor to private insurers," says Katherine Sebelius, the President's secretary of health and human services. "That's really the essential part, is you don't turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing." Below, Sebelius with Obama in April, courtesy of Reuters.
Learning from Europe
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sick...
- 8/17/2009
- by Chris Dannen
- Fast Company
With the health-care debate bogged down in mindless town hall confrontations and the President reassuring us his plan for health care reform will work--just as soon as he creates it--where can Americans turn for innovative ideas in health care? Having organically grown his business from a failing granola shop in Austin into a nationwide phenomenon, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey knows a thing or two about running a solvent business while taking care of his people. And when it comes to health-care reform, Mackey says, the President and Congress are moving in the wrong direction.
"While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system," Mackey wrote in this morning's Wall Street Journal. "Instead, we should be...
"While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system," Mackey wrote in this morning's Wall Street Journal. "Instead, we should be...
- 8/12/2009
- by Clay Dillow
- Fast Company
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