Will Whole Foods Destroy Brooklyn?

Whole Foods will open its first location in Park Slope, Brooklyn next year, following an eight-year battle with community activists, preservationists, and some leaky subterranean oil tanks.

Opponents of the project are concerned the upscale grocer will destroy the bucolic landscape, chase away the thriving manufacturing industry, and forever conceal the historic backyard of one of Brooklyn's most treasured landmarks. Seriously.

A few blocks away sits the legendary Park Slope Food Co-op, which routinely tackles issues of national—and international—importance, such as conflict in the Middle East, natural gas drilling, and our "post hyper-capitalist" future.

What do threatened co-op shoppers and neighborhood activists have to say about the new Whole Foods?

Reason.tv correspondent Kennedy investigates.

Written and produced by Jim Epstein.

Approximately 2.30 minutes.

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[leftydanvball]

I want more Kennedy on Reason. Can I get the government to mandate more Kennedy?

[LibertyDownUnder]

New York is infected with collectivism.

You see this all over the world, about 20-30% of the population that's just obsessed with giving complete control over their lives to a central Government, and protesting against individual choice in every opportunity they get.

[eurohim]

There's always someone who is outraged.

[Zaxxon2008]

Yeah... that was kinda my point!

Perhaps our similar senses of humor mis-connected I think

[abergethirty]

There is this thing called a sense of humor, give it shot!

Being employed is better than being broke, but owning your own business rules. :)

[Zaxxon2008]

she has small breasts, fyi... but I'm sure they're nice

[Zaxxon2008]

I am a leg man. Known to many as an 'afficionado' of stems, gams, kickers...

And YES, she has absolutely PHENOMINAL legs :)~

[Zaxxon2008]

Fine. Just replace it with a Walmart or Target when you're done fighting employment in an impoverished, run-down, dilapidated part of town please.

[Zaxxon2008]

and BUST wins by a landslide!

[Zaxxon2008]

A web show is where you go, by choice, to be employed in your given profession.

Being employed is fun. Give it a shot!

[Zaxxon2008]

ROFL Kennedy kicks ass

"I would bottle it and sell it at Whole Foods!"

LMAO

[h0pita]

Actually, because every Park Slope Food Co-op member is also an active co-op volunteer, Park Slope Food Co-op's prices are very low.