The biggest natural foods markets, Whole Foods and Wild Oats , have the widest selection of organic food that you can find anywhere. But both chains also offer some so-called conventional produce.
These chains aren’t organic purists. For example, last year I argued unsuccessfully with the fish buyer for Wild Oats that it is contrary to that company’s philosophy for it to be selling farmed salmon, which is generally contaminated with dangerous levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). But...
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