This morning, as I was reading an email newsletter from the OCA, I got so pissed off with their behavior, that I just had to write to them to let them know not everybody in the sustainable agriculture and food movement wants to sink to their level. Here is what I wrote:

As a worker, small entrepreneur, and expert with more than 20 years devoted to all aspects of getting organic food from the soil to the consumer’s mouth and taking better care of the earth and all its inhabitants, I’m appalled at the vicious smear campaign you are waging against John Mackey and Whole Foods.
If you call yourselves the “Organic Consumers Association” one would think your job is to reach out to main street and extoll the benefits of eating and growing organic foods and point people to helpful resources. Instead you are preaching to a choir of rabid state socialist totalitarians whose objective is grabbing as much coercive power over their fellow citizens as possible in order to foist their sick utopian schemes on us all.
To further this goal you don’t hesitate to twist John Mackey’s words into something unrecognizable and certainly not representative of his views – a practice also known as lying. I have carefully studied the material in which he outlines his views and they’re not what you say they are.
His alternative proposal for health care reform is spot-on and would make health care more available and more affordable to all but maybe the very poorest 5% of the population, who I’m sure would also be served, thanks to the American people’s stellar charitability.
As a worker, I’ve always avoided unionized workplaces like the plague – unions have degenerated into organized crime syndicates who force workers to hand over a big chunk of their paycheck for the privilege of being lorded over by them. No thanks. Unions don’t uphold workers’ rights, they violate them. Not to mention how they drive up consumer prices, hurting the poor even more.
As for WFM policies on the food they sell, this is between WFM and the people who shop there. Nobody else has a right to determine what should be sold there. John Mackey, as an astute entrepreneur, is very open to feedback from customers and knows that the well-being of his business and all its employees depends on supplying customers what THEY want.
Your campaign has taken on such a level of nastiness and barbarism that I am ashamed of the OCA and do not consider the OCA to be legitimately representing the interests of organic consumers, farmers, and movements.

The situation brings to mind the following words by Ludwig von Mises that I just read yesterday:

What has been called the democracy of the market manifests itself in the fact that profit-seeking business is unconditionally subject to the supremacy of the buying public.
Non-profit organizations are sovereign unto themselves. They are, within the limits drawn by the amount of capital at their disposal, in a position to defy the wishes of the public.