If that is true that Whole Foods is immersing food that they later call vegetarian in the very same water they are cooking meat in, that is very, very wrong. I haven't been to a Whole Foods in probably a year, but hearing this I'll likely not eat at their deli if I do go!

And if they were to label their soups and other things as vegetarian, in light of what you say about their Japanese/sushi selections, I don't think we could believe them. Some cooks will say a soup is vegetarian even if it has chicken or beef broth in it, and Thai cooking sometimes has fish flavoring and the servers will still claim it is vegetarian. Too many people don't know the meaning of 'vegetarian' unfortunately.

By the way, the other person who complained about Whole Foods lately in this tribe deleted her own post, and the reply I gave, in the thread she started. Just so you all know, as moderator here I don't go deleting things that people write, unless it is spam or off topic advertising.