I take a walk through google looking for information on Coca cola and I find the initiative: "Because I love the life I do not drink Coca Cola", here I pass the most remarkable.
18 reasons not to give your money to The Coca-Cola Company:
Financed with $ 610,000 the campaign of George Bush.
contains GM products.
has a brutal economic and political power: It has offices in over 200 countries, including Bahrain and tax havens like the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes on their benefits in 2003 were U.S. $ 21.044 million (1 / 2 of the costs provided by the UN to ensure basic education to all children in the world). Boost
powerful lobbies, opposed the Kyoto treaty through their lobbies U.S. Council for International Business and the Business Round Table, changed regulations in the EU through the American Chamber of Commerce, was founder the International Life Science Institute, very influential in the FAO and WHO, etc.
Coincidence that Mexican President Fox is former representative of Coca-Cola? What Adolfo Calero, former manager of Coca-Cola, CIA and public face of the Nicaraguan contras? What about the U.S. ambassador to India? What mogul Cisneros coup in Venezuela? What Jorge Presno Minister of Uruguay? ...
1999, Kerala (India): Coca-Cola destroys agricultural crops daily drawing 1.5 million liters of groundwater, until the Supreme Court prohibited activity.
1999 to 2000, Atlanta (USA), enacted 10 times for its unsanitary conditions and serious chemical releases by the Agency Safety and Health (OSHA).
1999 Poland: convicted of selling drink contaminated with fungi.
also in 1991 (Colombia), 1999 (carbon dioxide in Belgium and Holland, rodenticides in France) and 2004 (bromate in England and malathion in India).
Coca-Cola exceeds up to 87 times the European limit of pesticides such as Lindane and DDT (banned in Europe for its carcinogenic effects).
2000, USA: fined $ 192,000,000 for its practices of racial discrimination.
2000, Chiapas, after the privatization of water in the ecological reserve of Cerro Huitepec, distributing water to two times the amount of lead allowed by health authorities.
2001 and 2004, chosen among the 10 worst companies in The Multinational Monitor.
2002, Pakistan: the photograph of child labor practices, using children to stitch soccer balls in Sialkot promotional.
2002, India: Supreme Court condemned by environmental disaster, the advertising giant painting directly on live rock in the Himalayas.
2003, Panama: fined for polluting it with red dye (used in fruit juice) Matasnillo River and the Bay of Panama. The coast was pink.
2003, U.S.: 3,700 employees dismissed while productivity bonuses paid $ 8,400,000 to its six top positions.
2003, U.S.: 24% of their permanent contracts are replaced with temporary contracts with no health insurance. Your employees have no fixed pension plan and pay $ 212 a month for their segurosanitario (the Pepsi $ 41).
2004, El Salvador: Again using children to cut sugar cane, in shifts of up to nine hours under the scorching sun machete without health coverage.
plastic bottles of Coca-Cola in Spain are not recycled but virgin plastic.
In March 2004 Coca-Cola acknowledged that its mark Dasanienvasaba ordinary tap water and not taken from the springs. Retired 500 000 bottles in the scam. Suppression
union in Colombia have been documented 9 murders and 179 cases of threats, kidnappings, torture of workers in Coca-Cola, where the company employs paramilitaries to destroy the union SIANALTRAINAL.
1990: killed A. Eloy during a strike. He was a member of the board of Sinaltrainal and the strike committee.
1994: J. assassinated Eleazar. Soon after they are killed and LEGómez LE Giraldo, all Coca-Cola workers and union leaders in Carepa municipality, during the negotiation of a list of demands.
1996: Coca-Cola closed its plant to lay off 150 workers unionized. Factory commits suicide GGMaigual before the bankruptcy. 2 years after Coca-Cola opens with temporary workers.
1996: killed in his job, ISGIL, negotiator of the demands mentioned above. His brother left his post due to threats. His wife was murdered in 2000.
1997: Luis Adolfo Munera was murdered two weeks after winning a Coca-Cola trial.
2001: All employees of the bottlers in the country are confined against their will and pressured to renounce their contracts and qualify New legislation. 1000 was dismissed.
2001: ODSOTO killed a ISGIL had gradually phased in negotiating the same list of demands.
2002: killed MÚNERA AJ LOPEZ, Sinaltrainal and executive vice president of Confederation of Trabajadores.Estas are just a few "pearls" of the famous product.
Reject Coca-Cola is betting on a better world.
Did you know ...
... Spain is the European country that consumes more Coca-Cola?
... there is an alternative solidarity that we will introduce in the next issue called Mecca-Cola?
... other products are his Fanta, Sprite, Aquarius, Nestea, Minute Maid, Tab, Sonfil, Finley, Nordic Mist or Fruitopia (there 324distintos)?
... a can 33 cl. contains about 35 grams. sugar?
... Coca-Cola in 1931 changed the green suit of red Santa Claus for an advertising campaign to match your corporate color?
... universities in Atlanta, Toronto, California, Ireland and Berlin have removed Coca-Cola from their campus?
20% of the proceeds from the sale of Mecca-Cola is intended to build schools and hospitals in Morocco, Algeria and Palestine.
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