Have a Coke

[Earth_First]

Communities across India are under assault from Coca-Cola practices in the country. A pattern has emerged as a result of Coca-Cola's bottling operations in India.

Communities across India living around Coca-Cola's bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages, directly as a result of Coca-Cola's massive extraction of water from the common groundwater resource. The wells have run dry and the hand water pumps do not work any more. Studies, including one by the Central Ground Water Board in India, have confirmed the significant depletion of the water table.

When the water is extracted from the common groundwater resource by digging deeper, the water smells and tastes strange. Coca-Cola has been indiscriminately discharging its waste water into the fields around its plant and sometimes into rivers, including the Ganges, in the area. The result has been that the groundwater has been polluted as well as the soil. Public health authorities have posted signs around wells and hand pumps advising the community that the water is unfit for human consumption.

In two communities, Plachimada and Mehdiganj, Coca-Cola was distributing its solid waste to farmers in the area as "fertilizer". Tests conducted by the BBC found cadmium and lead in the waste, effectively making the waste toxic waste. Coca-Cola stopped the practice of distributing its toxic waste only when ordered to do so by the state government.

Tests conducted by a variety of agencies, including the government of India, confirmed that Coca-Cola products contained high levels of pesticides, and as a result, the Parliament of India has banned the sale of Coca-Cola in its cafeteria. However, Coca-Cola not only continues to sell drinks laced with poisons in India (that could never be sold in the US and EU), it is also introducing new products in the Indian market. And as if selling drinks with DDT and other pesticides to Indians was not enough, one of Coca-Cola's latest bottling facilities to open in India, in Ballia, is located in an area with a severe contamination of arsenic in its groundwater.

http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/index.html


Listed below are union leaders at Coca-Cola's Colombian bottling plants who have been murdered. Hundreds of other Coke workers have been tortured, kidnapped and/or illegally detained by violent paramilitaries, often working closely with plant managements.

1989 Avelino Chicanoy
4/8/94 Jose Elaseasar MancoDavid
4/20/94 Luis Enrique Giraldo Arango
4/23/95 Luis Enrique Gomez Garado
12/5/96 Isidro Segundo Gil
12/26/96 Jose Librado Herrera Osorio
6/21/2001 Oscar Dario Soto Polo
8/31/2002 Adolfo de Jesus Munera Lopez

http://www.killercoke.org/

[Mythsaje]

1. One of the reasons I stopped buying Coke products

(for the most part) some six months ago.

[mom cat]

10. I am down to filrered tap water and fair trade coffee & tea.

[Mythsaje]

15. I've been on a fruit juice kick for several months now...

My body started screaming for it, so I started drinking it almost exclusively other than coffee and water.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I remember years ago watching my mechanic pour coke on my car battery

terminals to remove corrosion.

I haven't much enjoyed it since then. :eyes:

[RufusEarl]

4. Coke!

Coke, also works well for removing road film/oil from a car windshield. And i've seen it dissolve a large chunk of raw beef, bottoms up!

[VTMechEngr]

13. Mythbusters tried the Beef one. It did not work. nt

[RufusEarl]

17. Cook & Beef!

When i was just a kid way back in the filthies, my grandmother and i tried dissolving a chunk of beef with coke and it worked overnight. Now it was a small bottle of coke and perhaps they had difference ingredients in coke back in the olden days but it worked.

[VTMechEngr]

12. Any soda or citris based drink will do that.

Water actually will remove some of it. The slight acidic nature of soft drinks helps.

The acid does not hurt you, and its what gives most soft drinks their taste.

Other drinks that I know to do the same task well: Mountain Dew, Orange Juice, Sprite, Pepsi.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Yes the acid can hurt you

I rarely drink coke or any other pop and when I do, I get a killer stomach ache. My doctor says it is from the acid in the pop.

[Fleshdancer]

3. There goes my coke drinking habits

I cut down my soda consumption originally because of the high fructose corn syrup crap but it looks like I have more reasons to stop all together. Is Pepsi any better from an ethical perspective? Probably not, but I'll look it up out of curiosity.

[WinkyDink]

5. Pepsi-co is totally Republican. Goes way back to Nixon.

FYI.

[Terran1212]

6. Coca-Cola is the Sum Republican Corporation though

I met the head of security at World of Coke (we were both in homeland security simulation for trainees). Definitely a Rightwing corporation.

[WinkyDink]

7. Just goes to show: Bidness is bidness, and that = Republican.

[Terran1212]

19. They're willing to throw money at and sponsor every right-wing

groupthink in the state of Georgia..

[Fleshdancer]

9. thanks. I was afraid of that.

that's ok though, I have no reason to drink their crap anyway. Wine, water and coffee for me. :)

[niyad]

11. from buyblue.org:

$95,390 to Democrats
$211,218 to Republicans
$2,568 to Others
$309,174 in Total Contributions

[pstokely]

8. avoid Big Soda whenever possible

[seg4527]

14. THANK YOU

People really need to open their eyes to this.

There are many campuses around the nation that have movements to get Coke kicked off of their campuses

I am proud to say that my school, University of Minnesota Twin Cities is one of them.

[Earth_First]

16. I agree. If you support human rights or organized labor...

Coca Cola does NOT fit into your system of ethics/values.