Coca-cola and boycotting

Certain companys I would boycott or girlcott. I wouldn't shop in Shell garage, as they support the Bhurma regime. I wouldn't shop in bodyshop because they DO test on animals.As for coca cola, I personally cannot find fault. I think they do exploit the Christmas market though. If they stopped that, I would be a happier man.

 

Nah not more calories, theyre just very harmful because these sweeteners like xylitol and splenda are just chemical concoctions brought about in labs, aiming to get maximum sweetness with the least calories. The things are very dangerous

Its really cool you like fruit smoothies, theyre ever so healing if you have any health problems at all. I just experiemented when we firs got our blender, now we make about 4 smoothies each a day very very cheaply and they do give us so much energy

Well diabetes is pretty complex but put simply there are a few different types

Type 1 diabetes is thought to have genetic backing which is triggered by an outside factor. These people are usually young when they show symptoms, babies, kids or young adults, and are usually slim. Basically their pancreas is not producing insulin, which is needed to keep your sugar levels down

Type 2 diabetes is the most common and accounts for like 90 percent of cases. This is mainly seen in obese people. It IS caused by things like sugar, and it can be cured quite easily mostly when these things are taken away. The pancreas becomes insulin resistant, meaning their insulin has little effect. But when left alone it can be lethal, it can cause blindness, kidney failure, amputation of legs. Its all round a hideous disease and the crazy thing is, people are doing it to themselves!

Then there are other very rare forms inbetween these two. I guss you could have just wikipediad thathaha...my point is though its caused MOSTLY by our yucky foods, and foods which are dangerously unhealthy yet still marketed. Now even tiny toddlers get type 2 diabetes, becuase theyre eating at macdonalds every day. Scary stuff

 

P.s-Is good to get yourself tested for diabetes every couple of years if you dont already. You can go into lloyds pharmacy and theyll do it for free, its a prick on the finger and thats it. Good for peace of mind. Ooh look at me, i sound all informative!

 

Hahahaha...
This was a joke, right?:S

 

Coca Cola, their suppliers and bottlers in South America have been linked with illegal child labour, polluting local water supplies and anti-union violence including murders, and in India and Africa they have been accused of monopolizing local water supplies at the expense of farming communities. Human Rights Watch and others have highlighted their dubious business practices around the world, from which Coca Cola consistently attempt to distance themselves and fail to acknowledge. They're one of the worst examples of rampant capitalism with no public conscience, seeking profit at the expense of lives and communities. They're bad guys alright.

 

Nope. Cub's honour!:tongue:

 

It's quite sad and pathetic that the majority of people only start to take action and believe things once they've seen it on the gogglebox.

 

how do you know they heard of it before? Or to the extent that Dispatches went into it?

 

i think instead of turning your nose up at people that learn things off of telly, you should instead just be grateful that the info is out there and more people do realize what is going on.

i'd heard of issues with coke before and people boycotting it, but honestly hadn't looked into what it was all about. unfortunately i have much greater concerns in my own day to day life than to research into every company i hear rumours about, which might i add is quite a lot of companies and practices and would take days to research into all of them and find out what is real and just hyperbole.

and unlike you and i, there are loads of people that still don't have the internet or a computer but have a tv with basic channel access, so i for one think it's great that they broadcast programs about such issues on the five basic channels so more people learn about what goes on in the world. because there are plenty of people out there that don't get ready access to such information at a click of a few buttons.


and might i add, i agree with iluvmusic as well, i personally, may have known there were 'issues' with coke, but i certainly didn't know what it all was about. i'd heard of university campuses boycotting coke but i thought this had to do with how coke and pepsi pay high schools and colleges/universities to have only their machines on the grounds (as this is what they do in the States). it wasn't until i happened to catch the Dispatches program that I saw the full detailed account of all the atrocities that they have committed, not just currently but in the past as well.


but well, go ahead, and condemn people for how they learn of info and thus try to make changes, rather than just being glad that people do learn and do try to make changes. i'm sure your way will be much more productive. :tongue:

 

Because, as I've mentioned before there's been books, articles etc circulating for a good few years prior to this investigation by Dispatches.

 

Arrrghhhhh double post

 

I agree that people may not have access to the internet or whatever, but there is generally a local library in every town and city in GB. Also, there's been seminars and talks about this for a good 6 or 7 years now. We had one at our school/college etc.

Also, I am not condemning people for getting their info from the TV, but are you forgetting that the media only tell you what they want you to hear? Also, you need to find out who's giving who in the media the money to get things broadcasted etc. Why not ask yourself why this whole issue has only just started to be broadcast now? Just like anything, you have to consider the motives of those involved and what you're being told.
I may have chosen my words wrong, but what I meant was I found it a bit pathetic that once people start seeing things on TV they take it as "gospel". So maybe one day I'll get into media and tell everyone that Generation 1 and 2 Transformers are real. That is all.

 

And it isn't just Coca Cola, what about Nestle and various others. There's actually a book/books on unethical companies and lists most of the major world companies and gives reasons as to why etc.

 

Nestle. I remember sitting on a train going past Hayes and catching a lovely coffee smell early in the morning. I used to frequent from Reading to Ealing Broadway. I heard that Nestle produced alternative milk to breastfeeding and something bad happened to the babies?

Like with most companies, you can just assume that 70% are corrupt or have links to bad human rights/animal rights in other countries, like the sweatshops in Bangladesh to the football sowers of China. It is very difficult to know what is good and what is bad. It is a culture of Must have, Need Now. That we often contribute to bad organisations. Still, atleast there are talks taking place. A solution begins with talks. If we didn't rely on cheapgoods, we could be confident that we are shopping at a moral company. One where it doesn't rely on cheap laboured clothes from China or Bangladeshi.

Pound shops
Pound Stretcher
Pound Buster
Tesco
Shell
Esso
These companies either support the Bhurma regime or contribute to the everlasting reliance on exploitation in the developing countries.

 

i've never officially "BOYCOTTED" anything. i just stop buying it. it's not really a political or moral stance for me. nothing i really think about. i just don't buy in anymore.