Coca-Cola Toxic

Not for sale in America.

The Indian parliament has banned the sale of Coke and Pepsi products in its cafeteria. Indian parliamentarians should take the logical next step, and ban the sale of Coke and Pepsi products in the entire country.

The ban came as the result of tests, including those by the Indian government, which found high concentrations of pesticides and insecticides, including lindane, DDT, malathion and chlorpyrifos, in the colas, making them unfit for consumption. Some samples tested showed the presence of these toxins to be more than 30 times the standard allowed by the European Union. Tests of samples taken from the U.S. of the same drinks were found to be safe.

Double standards? You bet. An isolated incident? Not quite. Large multinationals are notorious for serving up products that have been banned in the West to new and emerging markets in developing countries. The tobacco industry, faced with dwindling sales after successful anti-tobacco initiatives in the U.S., is investing heavily in addicting developing countries. Dow Chemical (owner of the Union Carbide company of the Bhopal gas disaster fame) aggressively markets the pesticide Dursban in India, in spite of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announcing plans to phase out Dursban in the U.S. because it is harmful to humans.

Coca-Cola India has hired a public relations firm, Perfect Relations, to rebuild its tarnished image in India. But the story of Coca-Cola in India goes much deeper than the toxic colas being served to the public, and no measure of public relations alone can solve this problem.

Communities in and around Coca-Cola's bottling operations are facing severe shortages of water as a result of the cola major sucking huge amounts of water from the common groundwater source. To add insult to injury, the scarce water that remains has been polluted by Coca-Cola as a result of its operations. In a gesture of goodwill, Coca-Cola now proudly trucks in water tankers for the community. And the main raw material for Coca-Cola's product -- water -- is practically free for the cola major.

...Coca-Cola has chosen to "fix" the problem of water shortage and groundwater pollution by assigning it to its public relations department.  article

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....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.