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Monday, October 02, 2006

special article-pepsi and coke in india

Posison in your Coke and Pepsi? The news from India was shocking, until the media started reporting verbatim from press releases direct from these two big multinational corporations, which effectively limited the coverage to the “fact” that they contained “acceptable” amounts of dangerous chemicals. In addition, there is the question of misappropriation of drinking water, the percentage of water polluted in the process of creating the beverage, and als the question of ingredients that have become suspect worldwide as the world races heaqdlong into an obesity epidemic.

Read the press releases of the cola companies

Read a pro-cola news report from Fox, stressing that the ban was initiated in a “communist” state. This is the usual type of reporting from Fox: if it is about free enterprise and making the world safe for American corporations, Fox is behind it.

From Wikipedia

ARTICLES FROM THE CRITICS
CORP WATCH (using cached version due to web trouble)

INDIA RESOURCE CENTER

Article by well known physicist and ecologist Vandana Shiva:  Coke Pepsi and the Politics of Food Safety

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