Coca- Cola dehydrating communities
Every day over 1 billion bottles or cans of coca-cola are comsumed, that equals 12,500 every second. Thats a lot of cola! They spend a whopping $2 billion a year promoting themselves with a healthy, wholesome image. Sponoring a range of sporting events such as the world cup and the olympic games. Remember the world cup 2002 & they were exposed for using child labour for stitching the “coca-cola footballs”. As if adding aspartame to their diet drinks wasn’t apauling enough coca-cola are responsible for a lot more when it comes down to sickening entire nations from the production & comsumption of their “oh so lovelly fizzy drinks. ” live on the coke side of life” NO THANKS.
It takes almost 3 litres of water to produce 1 litre of coke. Think of all the industrial cleaning involved,and they control aquifiers in communities around the globe. They give a very negative impact on farmers & communities where there is short enough rainfall for the peoples needs. Protesters in Varanasi in India peacefully marched to a coca-cola plant to demand it’s closure and were beaten & jailed by armed police in November 2004. The people of Varanasi in Utta Pradesh said that the companys activities were causing wells to dry & harvests to be poor. And that is alongside the fact that coca-cola plants produce a sludge like waste that contains toxic chemicals like cadmium and lead and levels of DDT 9 times higher than the EU limit. Yep, no wonder there are so many starving people in this world. Greedy, corporate suckers taking peoples livelyhoods & health with no shame.
Shame on them.
There is a free booklet report on coca-cola and it’s conduct on the “war on want” website. This will also go into coca-colas conduct in Guatemala and mentions, threats, arrests, kidnaps, shootings and torture.A bit of light reading. But the adverts for this wholesome, happy drink that shares the love around the world still work. I am feeling a little uptight now… To read more about coca-cola here are a couple of webistes:
