…at least if you’re Coke ™ they do. Here’s Maude Barlow, an expert on the world’s water wars. These get very little coverage in the American press, although they are much more important to mankind than the Bush family’s oil wars. The thing is, you can’t drink oil.
When you dig deep into Coca-Cola’s practices, you see it’s really a bad company. They are using military satellite imagery to find clean sources of groundwater and then going in — often in poor tribal communities — and setting up a plant and just helping themselves to the water until the water is gone. I call it water mining.
We’re working with folks in the state of Kerala, India, who have taken the Coca-Cola company all the way to their Supreme Court to fight the way Coke comes in and sucks up massive amounts of groundwater, pollutes it with sweeteners and chemical additives, and then makes huge profits selling this nonnutritious drink to the public.
You can't be so naïve to think any corporations are saintly.
They're all out to push the bottom line and screw anyone necessary to get there.
I will give Coke a little credit, although I can't sight the post, but they're cutting back on the amount of water they use. How they do this eludes me. How does a soft drink company turn out the same volume of product without the basic components.
I plead stupid.
Posted by: SPIIDERWEB™ on September 26, 2007 12:51 PMYou can't be so naïve to think any corporations are saintly.
They're all out to push the bottom line and screw anyone necessary to get there.
I will give Coke™ a little credit, although I can't sight the post, but they're cutting back on the amount of water they use. How they do this eludes me. How does a soft drink company turn out the same volume of product without the basic components.
I plead stupid.
Posted by: SPIIDERWEB™ on September 26, 2007 12:53 PMDamn it I hate when I post a second time because I thought the first didn't.
Arghhh!!!
Posted by: SPIIDERWEB™ on September 26, 2007 12:55 PMHey, no problem. It gives the illusion of high traffic.
Posted by: Jerry Doolittle on September 26, 2007 1:14 PMAnd that Rumsfeldian sweetener, NutraSweet, is quite possibly causing all kinds of neurological disease.
Posted by: whig on September 26, 2007 10:03 PM