feel it's not the ramadan promoting whole foods you know i mean i would expect better from whole foods like there's this massive islamophobia campaign going on and i would expect them to hold out for this we went back and forth with the spokesperson from whole foods this afternoon actually and they said ok we're still promoting the whole food but not ramadan because we don't support in the holidays you google whole foods christmas the first thing that probably is a blog post says merry christmas i think it's like yeah gotten completely out of control with this holiday thing now when i'm walking into a store and i say merry christmas i feel uncomfortable because you're not supposed to say that and i think that there are you know you have to have a menorah if you don't have a christmas tree you know whatever i think america is a country of many religions and everyone should be allowed to celebrate whichever religion they choose at any time and i think it's ridiculous i mean if we're going to go here with the whole also we might as well you know make sure they don't sell kosher hotdogs at

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whole foods management had to rush to contain the fallout. and abc 7 has more. >> whole foods got caught in a controversy. the company hasn't campaign calling atension to halal foods meeting muslim laws but an internal e mail told managers there to stop using signage that could be considered promoting or celebrating ramadan there. was a backlash on twitter. >> we need to fight against this sort of pervasive prejudice. >> whole foods corporate quick to respond and it tweeted we're excited about offering halal products and stand behind them and our promotion of them. and the controversy erupted as muslims worked to educate people about their fate. not only is it time of prayer and fasting but giving. abiba hussein started a nonprofit 19 years ago. >> every day, you do small amounts of charity. but be regular. and do it from the heart. >> as the 10th anniversary of september 11th approaches muslims say they're working with a variety of organizations to promote a message of peace and understanding. there are mosque open houses and special events

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the company was buckling under pressure, but the company said whole foods is not canceling. we never sent a communication requesting stores take down signs at all. one region reacting by not specifically ramadon. local muss limb leaders applauded home foods for not knocking down. >> promoting campaign and saying they are not going to give in to this campaign of hate. >> whole food shoppers agreed. >> we all need to do that. good for whole foods. >> ramadon is intended to teach muslims about patience and humility. kit, cbs 5. >> go down wallgreen's aisle and you may see a health plan. the largest pharmacy chain plans to open a health ?urnt ?urnt problem. part of a wave of new problems. >>> new research says a blood test that determines a fetus' sex is incredibly accurate. close to perfect in some cases. the information is in this week's jour mall of the american medical association. the test is 95 act rat and detecting a male fetus at seven weeks. the test was based on fetal dna taken from the mother's blood and designed to be an alternative others. >> blood test is simple. dr

how it ties into whole foods.hat's coming up in two minutes. ,, the big, b e of a subway® bbq pulled pork sub. tender, succulent slow-cooked pork with sweet and smoky barbecue sauce, all on freshly baked bread. subway. eat fresh®. it >>> usually, grocery stores are left out of political debates. but whole foods has set itself apart before. the chain started a promotion for the holy month of ramadan. as kiet do shows us, the controversy spiraled from there. >> reporter: it's ramadan and for muslims, it's a time of fasting and prayer during the day and feasting at night. but for whole foods it's time for damage control. a week ago they made history by launching an online marking campaign the first ramadan promotion by a national change touting a new line of kosher certified foods but it didn't take long for conservative bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. the issue reached a head today with this article from the houston press. they got a copy of an internal email making its way around the texas r

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obama's counties are whole foods. whole foods is the most expensive supermarket in the world. the liberals don't have any money. they hate millionaires, so how are they affording a $25 salad bar? that study is flawed. it was probably done by the rallied times -- the rally times. >> i am going to agree. this is horrible for our country. you start hanging out with people you like. i like to drink too much sometimes so i hang out with people that drink. people who do drugs hang out with other people who do drugs. if you don't eat healthy, you are fat. how do you eats outside of the box. we lose the creativity when we hang out with bums like you. >> if i could take it off your hands, i would throw it away immediately. >> is it a myth that we really want compromise? don't we actually like to be around the people who agree with us? >> what is better than talking to people and they go -- oh, right. i live for those moments. either that or i don't want to be with people i am smarter than. >> that's funny. >> people who look up to me and say, that's a good point. >> i often do that aft

whole foods denies there was any such directive.1 of their 12 operating regions made the decision on its own. now, one of the stores, big ramadan promotions is for safron road. and the ceo of that company joins us now. sir, we appreciate you being here. what was your take? did you think whole foods had done anything wrong, necessarily? and what they're saying at least one store wanted to pull back on their ramadan-themed promotion. >> thank you very much for having me on. >> yeah. >> and i think that the way whole foods has reacted to this has been very good, actually. they're a large organization, $9 billion in sales, 300 stores, always going to get some dissension somewhere. this is america, people have a right to different opinions. but our ramadan promotion with whole foods is still strong, very strong in spite of bizarre rumors that any ramadan campaign would slow or stop. >> now what you're saying there, maybe some rumors that are out there. but is it your understanding, and at least the reports are that at least there was an

. >>> whole foods doing damage control after being accused of caving to conservative bloggers. it comes after the national chain launched a new marketing campaign for ramadan touting a new line of frozen foods but didn't take long for bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. an email obtained by houston press suggested whole foods was changing its campaign. but the company says it's not canceling the proposing. >> i appreciate the fact that they stood behind their policy of celebrating diversity and promoting the campaign of ramadan and saying they are not going to give in to this campaign of hate. >> the whole foods campaign marks the country's first ramadan promotion by a national supermarket chain. >>> analysts now believe apple is on pace to become the world's first trillion dollar company. the cupertino-based tech giant surpassed exxonmobil as the most valuable company in the world. apple's stock gained 6% yesterday, 6%! it brings the company's total value just under $347 billion. exxon finished on top. but apple will take the top spot for good. they take som

rules came about after passengers complained of spending hours trapped in planes on the tarmac. >>> whole foodsg damage control after being accused of caving to conservative bloggers. this comes after the national chain launched a new marking campaign for ramadan. it touted a new line of certified frozen foods but didn't take long for bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. an internal email obtained by the houston press suggested whole foods was changing its campaign. but the company says it is not canceling the promotion. >> i appreciate the fact that they stood behind their policy of celebrating diversity of promoting ramadan and they are not going to give in. >> the whole foods campaign markets the country's first ramadan promotion by a national supermarket chain. >>> boy or girl? parents can find out sooner. there is new research that says a blood test can determine a baby's sex at just 7 weeks inutero. the information is in week's journal of the american medical association. researchers say the test is 59% accurate. the test is based on cell-free fetal dna taken from the m

away trader joe's shouldn't be singled out it's just one company among many routes vons safeway whole foods cosco sam's club and many others throw away staggering amounts of food every day but stores are only part of the problem of food waste all of us throughout perfectly good food on a daily basis we let it rot in our refrigerators we toss leftovers because they don't sound good or were afraid because we don't know enough about food to judge whether or not it's edible wasting food is a bad habit that permeates all of society implicating all of us in the problem which means we're all responsible for creating a solution. that's the problem not a lot for your forty percent of health overall well household or for about. to hear what we saw was among younger people and you pay for this point black and white. they don't know what a bad there's. this this half is bad i think are here. these eggs bring up a good point about. a little bit about food safety here. i have never been sick eating dumpster food my family has never been sick and i have to be really careful i'm feeding a small child trash

from a wholefoods -- whole foods. the bottom line is the neighbors are not completely happy with the situation, but we do believe they are now in compliance. there are two main issues that i think we're part of your conditions of approval even one as the hours of loading and the other is the staging of trucks on the street. your conditions did allow them to load between 4:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.. we believe 4:00 a.m. is the time when the conditions would allow that. primarily because we did not want to stage trucks on the street during traffic hours, and because when they are using the building without making modifications, the trucks have to go through the parking lot. it is very difficult, if not impossible to load during store hours. that is the challenge we have. it is a very early hour, admittedly, to load, but that was consistent with the commission. we did have the department of public health test for the noise conditions, and we believe they are in compliance at this time. did you have a question, commissioner?

the whole foods in the houston region pulled all promotions and stating that it never asked that region to do so. whole foods says it's very pleased to promote ramadan food and the passover and fourth of july. >>> the national highway traffic association is investigating an alleged bmw roll away case. it probes from an incident in which a driver parked his 2006 7 series sedan and claims it ran away. all luxury sedans are being looked into between 2002 and 2008. so far no recalls or warnings have been issued. no crashes or injuries have been reported in this alleged roll away case. >>> we've been cruising in the 80s. are we going to move? >> maybe downward here. it's hard to say in august. we're used to saying upwards. actually a long-term trend in my seven-day forecast is going to show cooler weather moving in. details on the meteor shower coming up in minutes. >>> i'm brody brazil. trying to help the san francisco giants win a series, something that they haven't done in the last coupleeofe ks w.la highlights still to come here on nbc bay area. >>> okay. it's been a long week base i ask

promoted a new line of frozen foods that are whole all certified is to muslims like like kosher is to jews offering free samples to people who eat a whole lot for religious reasons or just to try it immediately islamophobia went nuts over the idea of selling food that muslims can actually eat during ramadan and rather than taking a principled stand whole foods kate company immediately sent an e-mail out to all of its u.s. stores reading it is probably that we don't specifically call it a promote ramadan we should not highlight ramadan in signage in our stores as that could be considered celebrating or promote ramadan so does that mean whole foods won't promote or scola brit christmas when it comes around i doubt it but if so their executives should prepare and now for the backlash when fox news does their annual christmas crusade. and the very very ugly tom delay the former republican house majority leader turned c. list celebrity on dancing with the stars turned convicted felon had some advice for house republicans over the weekend all about hostage taking next month funding fo

. >>> well, whole foods is doing damage control after being accused of caving to conservative bloggers after the national chain launched a new marketing campaign for muslims for ramadan. it touted a new line for certified frozen foods but didn't take long for bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. an internal email obtained by the houston press suggests that whole foods was changing its campaign but the company is not canceling the promotion. >> i appreciate the fact that they stood behind their policy of celebrating and promoting ramadan and saying they are not going to give in to this. >> the whole foods campaign marks the country's first ramadan promotion by a national supermarket chain. >>> they say they want to kill facebook. that's the latest threat from the hacker group known as "anonymous." members of the shadowy collective say they are targeting facebook for its misuse of personal information. the announced dated for the shutdown november 5. in december the group tried and failed to bring down online giant amazon.com. >>> let's check and see what's coming up t

[laughter] >> will you swear on this whole foods apple -- [laughter] to tell the truth, the whole truthd nothing but the truth so help you god? >> how do i know that's really a whole the foods apple? >> because we went there and told me he bought it. >> we'll stipulate it's a whole foods apple. >> i do. [laughter] >> mr. mackey, thank you for being here. let me start with 24 question. you're the ceo and president of whole foods. how many employees do you have around the country? >> i think about 61,000. >> 61,000. of the 61,000, would you say you're an employer that provide your employees with a fair wage and benefit, and can you describe a little bit the wages and benefits you provide for the workers? >> the average wage is $16.50 an hour. the benefits are extensive, fully provided health care, food discounts, retirement benefits, it's a very generous -- names one of the best 100 companies to work for by "fortune" magazine for 14 years. >> how many are your employees are part of a union? >> none that i'm aware of. [laughter] >> you're not a unionized shop. why, sir? why don't you have

>> he went to whole foods and told me he bought it. >> we'll stipulate it's a whole foods apple. >> i do. [laughter] >> thank you for -- thank you for being here. let me start by asking you this question. you're the ceo of whole foods. how many employees do you have around the country? >> i think about 61,000. >> 61,000. of those 61,000, would you say that you are an employer that provides your employees with a fair wage and a fair benefit, and could you describe a little bit the wages and benefits that you provide for your workers? >> the average wage is $16.50 an hour. the benefits are extensive, fully provided health care, food discounts, retirement benefits. it's a very generous -- named one of the 100 best companies to work for by "fortune" magazine for the last 14 years. >> how many are part of a union? >> none that i'm aware of. [laughter] >> why don't you have a union at whole foods? >> because the team members have not felt they needed union representation. >> so you believe that the performance of the company would suffer? what do you think a union would do for the workers?

american a minute -- american apparel, cex, and whole foods. i urge your staff to look into the matter and give us some understanding about what is actually going on iwith the formula retell policy that seems to be observed in the breach in our part of the world. thank you. >> i would like to ask the people standing at the doorway to find a seat. we have had fire marshal issues in the past. i want to remind everyone in the audience to turn off any mobile devices that may sound off during the proceedings. >> good afternoon. my name is tess. i live in the haight ashbury in a 40-year plus resident. please do make sure that banks are included in this. the reason we put this legislation through originally was to protect our local small businesses and to keep the kind of character. when tourists come to san francisco, they do not come to see all of the same stores they have at home. we also want to keep our local small businesses going, because they reinvest. they spend their money here. so please do support that conclusion, and also, make sure that

. >> we're hearing that whole foods is continuing the ramadan campaign.'re supporting the company for celebrating the diversity in this country. >> reporter: for bay area muslim groups that also means opening the doors to their home. those stories such as the whole foods controversy makes them a little apprehensive. >> when there's people with other issues that may find it a target, but you know, we can't let fear hijack us. >>> again ramadan events will be held throughout august. they will open their doors this saturday. robert handa, ktvu news. >>> it appears many students who were at virginia tech during that mass shooting back in 2007 felt stressful effects from the rampage for many months afterwards. 33 people were killed during that rampage. according to a virginia tech study about 15% of the students at the university reported experiencing high levels of post-traumatic stress syndrome for several months. researchers surveyed 4,600 students in the months following that mass shooting. >>> all eyes are on iowa this week where the first dropped poll in

having the whole foods development market indicates what they are not going to do on site but they do want to do a land dedication. i agree that we all need to work towards more on site affordable housing. with that i move the amendments and i will move to continue this one week. supervisor mar: on the amendment without objection. continuing this item until the next meeting to the call of the chair. we may be meeting on monday. i am not sure. supervisor wiener: if there is no meeting on monday, when will the next meeting be? >> the second week of september for. but i will continue this to the call of the chair. please call item no. 2. >> item #two. hearing to follow-up with the san francisco municipal transportation agency (sfmta) regarding efficiency improvements to j-church light rail vehicle line service, and discussion with sfmta and the recreation and park department regarding the muni right-of-way in dolores park. supervisor wiener: very shortly after i took office, it may have been the first hearing that i called for, it was a hearing of what could be done to improve the reliab

. >> reporter: we went to whole foods with elizabeth hasselbeck, one of the co-hosts of "the view."he's written a book called "the g free diet" and she's a big advocate. >> everything from bread crumbs to cookies to bagels. it's there. pie crust is there. >> reporter: hasselbeck has celiac's disease. that's a genetic disorder that causes an intolerance to gluten. so all those foods with wheat, barley, and rye were making her sick for years. until she found out. >> my main goal always is trying find gluten-free food that tastes like i remember it tasting. >> reporter: and she claims it's not as restrictive as it seems. the great thing about pasta -- >> is that you can have it if you're celiac or gluten-free. >> reporter: and that's important to you? >> so important. sono italiano. i grew up in an italian household. pasta was at our table like another family member. i like to say, instead of removing, you want to actually just replace. >> reporter: hasselbeck is a true believer in a gluten-free diet and not just for people with a genetic disorder like she has. she encourages people to

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poll suggests that whole foods and sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marine le pen last week said she would with the southern half of belgium with france president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in talks to tie the knot we have contacts with other parties with you m.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then one would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half want to split two experts say belgium's already divided people don't know any more about the other half of the country the flemish people don't know who are the popular singers or writers today in the french speaking part and vice versa king albert fears bill jim's national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself a continual hope in the e.u. is scared that the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain were already seen separatist marchers and mixed commun