squatterandtheant wrote:
Aggressive marketing to children of nutritionally worthless and damaging products. Coke paid Warner Brothers, a subsidiary of Time Warner, $150 million for exclusive global marketing rights to the Harry Potter movies, the first of which was released in November of 2001. Obviously, the whole point of Coke’s investment was to entice kids to consume more soft drinks...
shut up and go protest holloween.
Quote:
Coke admits marketing fraud, settles ‘whistleblower’ lawsuit. In June, 2003, the public got a rare glimpse of Coke’s corrupt business practices when the company acknowledged that employees manipulated the results of a marketing test of Frozen Coke at Burger King restaurants.
....so they lied about how good their product is....who doesn't do this? no one ever says "this product tastes like pure dog turds...buy this product!" if it was in regards to a quota they had to meet for burger king to keep their product, then that's up to them and burger king to settle. i liked the frozen cokes myself.
Quote:
Overexploitation and pollution of water sources in India.Of the 200 countries where Coca-Cola is sold, India reportedly has the fastest-growing market, but the adverse environmental impacts of its operations there have subjected the parent company and its local bottlers to a firestorm of criticism and protest. There has been a growing outcry against Coca-Cola’s production practices in India, which are draining out vast amounts of public groundwater and turning farming communities into virtual deserts...
“Three communities in India — Plachimada in Kerala, Wada in Maharashtra and Mehdiganj in Uttar Pradesh — are experiencing severe water shortages as a result of Coca-Cola’s mining of the majority of the common groundwater resources around its facilities. Coke’s indiscriminate dumping of waste water into the ground has polluted the scarce water that remains. In Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu, residents are opposing a proposed Coca-Cola facility because of fears that they too will face water shortages and pollution..."
http://www.killercoke.org/pdf/coke-abuses.pdf (See also
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/2009.html)
”Repressive, anti-worker policies in many foreign countries". Coke’s reputation has already suffered because of the actions of its subsidiaries and/or bottlers in Brazil, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, the Philippines and elsewhere.
show me some sources that aren't just anti-coke pages. any conspiracy theory nut can find info on why the trade towers fell and how it's an inside job...but it's just incestuous research feeding back into itself. show me some outside sources.
Quote:
Anti-competitive practices around the world. Coke frequently gets in trouble because of its trade practices and attempts to monopolize the beverage sector in many countries..
Does this sound like a responsible, ethical corporation?
http://www.killercoke.org/pdf/coke-abuses.pdfUndrinkable.
sounds more ethical than the organizations who look to tear down such companies. i'd rather have the corporation instead of the anti-capitalist, socialist dietary hippie fascists who seek to protest coke, the dairy industry, the meat industry, and enforce their views of people should live on others. i'd hardly call any group looking to take away my liberties ethical. especially ones who run around claiming to be ethical.
Quote:
And thats not even mentioning Colombia.
the best coffee beans and cocaine out on the free market today!
Quote:
So intelligent, compassionate people of WP inform yourselves and lets boycott Coca-Cola for the above reasons. Find an alternative drink from a company that doesnt bully, that doesnt produce a product of the back of human misery and doesnt paint its rotten black core with shiny colours! Say No To Coke! Are you with me?
nope. i don't cater to anti-capitalist groups who display blatent socialist overtones and spout fascist rhetoric.
01 Apr 2007, 1:50 pm
