{"id":75749,"date":"2016-03-04T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T23:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=75749"},"modified":"2016-03-04T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T23:37:36","slug":"whole-foods-peeled-oranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/whole-foods-peeled-oranges\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day, Another Reason People Are Mad at Whole Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with a peeled orange.<\/p>\n<p>Whole Foods has done some pretty crazy things (two words: asparagus water) and now the chain has come under fire again for &#8212; wait for it &#8212; pre-packaged peeled oranges.<\/p>\n<p>A shopper, Nathalie Gordon, posted about it to Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If only nature would find a way to cover these oranges so we didn&#8217;t need to waste so much plastic on them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/00YECaHB4D\">pic.twitter.com\/00YECaHB4D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nathalie Gordon (@awlilnatty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awlilnatty\/status\/705375555030556672\">March 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>And people began responding in outrage, of course. Ugh, what a waste of plastic! Ugh, that&#8217;s what hands are for! The backlash was so strong that Whole Foods even tweeted out:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awlilnatty\">@awlilnatty<\/a> Definitely our mistake. These have been pulled. We hear you, and we will leave them in their natural packaging: the peel. \u2014 Whole Foods Market (@WholeFoods) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WholeFoods\/status\/705418106915540992\">March 3, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there were some people who came out in support of the peeled orange controversy, saying that those who suffer from arthritis might find the pre-peeled fruits helpful.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Are you for or against pre-peeled oranges? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"It all started with a peeled orange. Whole Foods has done some pretty crazy things ...","author":1280,"featured_media":75751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wholefoods_main-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wholefoods_main.jpg","formated_date":"March 4, 2016","category_name":"Wellness","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113835\/health-2.svg","author_name":"Judy Wang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#c089f4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}