Coca Cola banned

[amor]

Grace to you,

Consumer boycotts work because brands and brand image are of central importance to large corporations

Actually it's just a larger more easily hit target.

Well, Coke is a corrupt company

Facts please.

Peace,

Dave

Corrupt is a bit of a loaded term isn't it maybe I should stick to dodgy (don't fancy being chased bythe likes of Messrs Sue, Grabbit and Run - the latter are a notable company of fictional London lawyers). The link I posted in reply to Nebula gives details of some of their dodginess.

[Marnie]

Coke is a dodgy company, one that carries out acts that are morally questionable. Polluting the water that poor people depend upon makes it dodgy. Perhaps you consider the powerful oppressing and abusing the the poor in this way OK. Not a stance taken by the Old Testament prophets or by Jesus, perhaps you see those teachers as earlier incarnations of the: "western-hating Communist profs" who you clearly despise"

The incidents you are thinking of India being Coke's fault are questionable. Please do not make the "poor people" of India somehow so stupid that they would allow a big company to kill them. That is arrogance of highest degree. If the water is being polluted by Coke, how are they doing this? Because they certainly don't pollute the water in America producing the exact same product. How is Coke oppressing anybody in India? The oppression comes from the government, which is well known to be corrupt, and by a Satanic religion which itself allows people to starve to death while supper is walking around free. They are oppressed by poverty, which is the result of a lack of capitalism, not capitalism itself, and an evil caste system which is the result of a lack of education.

Somehow you, and people like you, have no problem living off the success of businesses you claim to hate--you probably drink Coke or Pepsi, you obviously have a computer and surf the net, you watch TV and no doubt live in some kind of house which you own or rent. I am sure your clothes come from a department store and made overseas, unless you are so pragmatic you spin your own silk and make your own cotton. Before you preach against something, make sure you aren't complicit in their ability to "exploit" the poor.

The India Resource Center, which you linked to, states this as their agenda: Supports anti-corporate globalization movements of transnational corporations. How about an unbiased source, dude?

Jesus and the prophets preached against illegal scales and the rich taking advantage of the poor. I don't see Coke doing this. But, you of course, being perfect, can.

[amor]

[Jesus and the prophets preached against illegal scales and . I don't see Coke doing this. But, you of course, being perfect, can.

Well if a big company destroying the livelihoods of peasant farmers isn't an example of "the rich taking advantage of the poor" I'm a Republican Texan called George.

[RGR]

So you wish to boycott Coke to clean up their act so that they continue to waste the local water, eh? That makes about as much sense as Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny being life long friends! What it amounts to is this-Amor has never met an Anti-American/Anti-Western position he didn't like!

[Marnie]

Yeah. I give up casting pearls before swine.

[amor]

So you wish to boycott Coke to clean up their act so that they continue to waste the local water, eh? That makes about as much sense as Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny being life long friends! What it amounts to is this-Amor has never met an Anti-American/Anti-Western position he didn't like!

um, talk about me making no senseSo you wish to boycott Coke to clean up their act so that they continue to waste the local water, eh? I'm not sure this makes any sense at all

[billie]

I really like Coke. I don't know if I could boycott it.

[LadyGunivere]

eh well another corporation like the multigiant Wal-Mart.....erf

[nebula]

Here's a link to an Indian organisation campaigning on this issue.

Well, the article did not exactly answer the quesiton about jobs, but OK, I see the gripe.

I also still don't understand - why Coca-cola?

If I had more time, I could present the bad things a lot of companies are doing and getting away with. And I would start with the poverty-stricken areas of the US!

So, why is Coca-cola in India getting this attention?

And why are you making this one of your personal battles?

I mean, you have obviously been spending a lot of time on this one to pull up the arguments and article that you have.

[amor]

Here's a link to an Indian organisation campaigning on this issue.

Well, the article did not exactly answer the quesiton about jobs, but OK, I see the gripe.

I also still don't understand - why Coca-cola?

If I had more time, I could present the bad things a lot of companies are doing and getting away with. And I would start with the poverty-stricken areas of the US!

So, why is Coca-cola in India getting this attention?

And why are you making this one of your personal battles?

I mean, you have obviously been spending a lot of time on this one to pull up the arguments and article that you have.

Because one has to start somewhere, for me honestly the focus has been on Nestle rather than Coke, but that doesn't devalue the work of the people on the Coke boycott. I don't live in either the USA or India, but I do live on the same planet. As these corporations work on a global scale, there is no reason for them not to be held to account for their crimes on a global scale.