This is awesome. And I also VERY HIGHLY applaud Whole Foods for recognizing that to support their most health challenged employees the best, they need to adopt plant based eating. This is a HUGE step for this corporation, seeing as they sell tons of animal products as well.

Throughout my 30's and into my early forties, I was 65 pounds overweight. I never once felt that I was discriminated against unfairly. I knew damn well my condition was not only completely avoidable, but that I knew exactly how to go about losing the weight and regaining my health. I just didn't want to badly enough.

It took a few years but I am down to my ideal size and weight now. The first year was really difficult-yes, I had to work hard! So yes, overweight employees WILL have to work harder than those who are already fit. It takes WAY more effort to lose the weight than to maintain the weightloss.

I have absolutely ZERO tolerance for this nonsense that fat people are unfairly discriminated against. What on Earth ever happened to personal responsibility?

Kudos Whole Foods! I am very proud of you!

Yeah, and you can likely youtube it or read blogs and not even buy a single recipe book anymore ;-)

I have just read all of the new posts and I have to quickly reply to one of the issues concerning the Whole Foods Rewards Workers who lose weight.

Since there have been many other things having to do with this subject such as nutrition, prices for junk foods verses healthy foods etc. I have veered off my main point and concern. That is the issue of discrimination, period.

I would be just as adverse to discrimination against the healthy and fit if the reverse came to pass, and that would be the program to give the obese the additional discount,for whatever reason. It doesn't matter what the reason is for discriminating against any group of people, it doesn't matter what the end result would be. Discrimination is discrimination.

I am certain that it would be of benefit for McDonald's to give a discount to their obese employees and not to their fit and lean ones to give more incentive to their employees to buy more of their hamburgers. I would be just as adamant as I am being now that the practice would be wrong of them to be discriminating against the healthy employees.

Regardless of the businesses intentions, like I said discrimination is discrimination regardless of the end goal.

Ertarox, you have addressed so many subjects that we share an interest in, and I admire anyone who is concerned with social issues, such as the raping of our forests and lands to provide acreage for livestock, and how it affects our environment, about human and animal rights etc. Since I would love to address these issues and discuss them with you it will take time for me to go over what you have written, and when I have some more time to post some replies to you concerning them.

And thank you also for your insight and thoughtfulness on important subjects like these.

Until then, have a nice weekend!