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Or it's a societal problem. Don't discount the ability of society at large to make dumb mistakes. Is it really Coca Cola's fault your kids are fat?

by maxk42 4y ago

jodrellblank 4y ago
> "Is it really Coca Cola's fault your kids are fat?" Yes. https://twitter.com/calleymeans/status/1609929026889711617 https://twitter.com/calleymeans/status/1609929026889711617 "Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist[...]The conversations inside these rooms was depressingly transactional: "We (Coke) will give you money. You need to paint opponents of us as racist."" "watched as the FDA funneled money to professors at leading universities - as well as think tanks on the left and right - to create studies showing soda taxes hurt the poor. They also paid for studies that say drinking soda DIDN'T cause obesity."
- LinuxBender 4y ago
  In my opinion corporations that lobby/bribe to harm people should be handled differently than the internet censorship issue. In those cases I believe that such entities and all related parties should be considered a domestic terrorist and anyone that lobbied for them or any politician that took said bribes should be branded as aiding and abetting a domestic terrorist. There are already laws on the books for handling such people. If the offending company is international then it is no longer just domestic. Why domestic terrorist? Easy, they are intentionally harming people for profit. The mortality impact is very slow but there is a myriad of scientific data to prove the harm. Just type-2 diabetes alone may bankrupt most first world countries [1]. [1] - https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-report.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-repor... (2017) [this has only gotten worse]
LarryMullins 4y ago
Coca Cola's corporate propaganda is ubiquitous. They certainly are not innocent.

Or it's a societal problem. Don't discount the ability of society at large to make dumb mistakes. Is it really Coca Cola's fault your kids are fat?

by maxk42 4y ago

Or it's a societal problem. Don't discount the ability of society at large to make dumb mistakes. Is it really Coca Cola's fault your kids are fat?

jodrellblank 4y ago

> "Is it really Coca Cola's fault your kids are fat?" Yes. https://twitter.com/calleymeans/status/1609929026889711617 https://twitter.com/calleymeans/status/1609929026889711617 "Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist[...]The conversations inside these rooms was depressingly transactional: "We (Coke) will give you money. You need to paint opponents of us as racist."" "watched as the FDA funneled money to professors at leading universities - as well as think tanks on the left and right - to create studies showing soda taxes hurt the poor. They also paid for studies that say drinking soda DIDN'T cause obesity."

LinuxBender 4y ago
In my opinion corporations that lobby/bribe to harm people should be handled differently than the internet censorship issue. In those cases I believe that such entities and all related parties should be considered a domestic terrorist and anyone that lobbied for them or any politician that took said bribes should be branded as aiding and abetting a domestic terrorist. There are already laws on the books for handling such people. If the offending company is international then it is no longer just domestic. Why domestic terrorist? Easy, they are intentionally harming people for profit. The mortality impact is very slow but there is a myriad of scientific data to prove the harm. Just type-2 diabetes alone may bankrupt most first world countries [1]. [1] - https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-report.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-repor... (2017) [this has only gotten worse]

LarryMullins 4y ago

Coca Cola's corporate propaganda is ubiquitous. They certainly are not innocent.