A Nationwide Quit India Campaign Against Coke and Pepsi

[poe]

"On Jan. 20th., 2005 thousands of people across India will surround 87 Coke and Pepsi plants with a human chain from 12 noon to 1:30 pm and serve a notice to Coke and Pepsi to Quit India on the grounds of violating article 21 of the Indian Constitution which guarantees the right to life.Coke and Pepsi are threatening the fundamental right to life by mining ground water and creating local water famine. They are also threatening the right to life by selling hazardous soft drinks loaded with toxic chemicals."

"It is known that most soft drinks contain an extremely toxic brew of chemicals including pesticides, phosphoric acid, ethylene glycol (an extremely toxic anti-freeze compound added to allow them to be drunk 'extra chilled') and carbon dioxide."

<more>www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=66&ItemID=7063

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Good!!!

[AliciaKeyedUp]

20. Why?

[soaky]

23. plenty of reasons!

do some research on what these companies are doing to the local populations! especially in regards to the groundwater supplies.

[Bono71]

29. Hmmm....my wife's grandmother is 93 and drinks a coke per

day...I guess if coke is toxic, many things are...

Creating water famine is, of course, a serious issue.

[Massachusetts]

2. Try that in this country...........Yeah Democracy....Righttttt!

[central scrutinizer]

3. I will boycott Pepsi and Coke

Oh, wait, I've been doing that for the last twenty years anyway.

[progressiveBadger]

4. Birthplace of passive resistance

Good luck to them all!

[KurtNYC]

5. Ethylene Glycol

Hadn't seen that listed in labels before so I checked it out:

If ethylene glycol is ingested, it causes initial central nervous system stimulation followed by depression;

Sounds like crack.

http://www.nsc.org/library/chemical/Ethylen1.htm

[AllegroRondo]

6. Its the same thing you put in your radiator

very poisonous

[poe]

7. arsenic is also found...

in coca cola made in india. corpwatch website lists a whole host of nasties goin' into coca cola. what is often overlooked in American soft drink and juice manufacturers is the water used in product. much of the water will contain hydrofluosilicic(sp?) acid which is the byproduct of the phosphate fertilizer industry coming primarily from Cargill. this goes into water supplies under the fluoridation program and then finds its way back into all kinds of drinks. in this brew you'll find cadmium, nickel, uranium isotopes and more. yum.

[LifeDuringWartime]

8. !!

is this stuff in the soda they sell here?

[poe]

11. it depends on

the point of production. the water is more or less toxic at different plants and different soft drink companies use different policies with their water purification processes. all of the soft drinks are crap except a few of the organic and most of those have certain metabolic inhibitors. if you are getting juices or sodas from a company located in a fluoridated water supply (sic) area avoid it like the plague so as you don't get it. there is a ton of info about the contamination of the nations water supply just google water and the military industrial complex or some such thing and you'll be off and running.

[CarpeVeritas]

19. personally, i like my water fluoridated.

I've been to England, and I have seen their teeth.

[poe]

21. England's water is fluoridated-the most highly fluoridated state in the US

is Kentucky they have the worst dental records in US. the rest of Europe does not fluoridate and their dental records are far better than the US. please read the book The Fluoride Deception and go to Food & Water's website and search fluoride or google "Light and Darkness" by Mary Sparrowdancer. Sorry but that which is called fluoride and goes into your water is not the same as pharmaceutical grade fluoride (also toxic). Here are more resources; www.fluoridealert.org so if you want to drink or brush your teeth with industrial waste fluoride's the stuff.

Fluorides are industrial waste products created in the production of aluminum phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizers. Read <Fluoride: Industry's Toxic Coup, a short article by award winning journalist Joel Griffiths

[ozone_man]

18. They should demand the same water quality

as we have here. Or perhaps we should demand of our multinational corps. the same standards that we use here, be they FDA requirements, work conditions, etc. Level the playing field.

Regarding the addictive nature of Coke and Pepsi, it could be considered addictive in my opinion, along with most of our junk food that is making us the fattest nation on Earth, but that is a slightly different, but valid, issue.

[mrbassman03]

27. No, it is not in the soda they sell here...

The FDA employs thousands of chemists to test for this and many other chemicals. Though it is a terrible mix of other legal chemicals... SUGAR being one. Pump this into kids who do not know better and we wonder why there are so many obese children.

[musiclawyer]

9. I've been telling my friends forever that soft drinks are toxic

I was more focused on the HFCS(high fructose corn syrup) in them and many other foods that make your body fat and mind slow. Also the extreme acidity that these drinks do to your PH. Low PH = cancer eventually. But the other stuff described in the article, yikes! Corporate America killing its own people for the bottom line. You wonder if people who work for Coke or hold its stock actually drink it? This is getting into the realm of ethics and morality. I'll stop. It's too depressing.

[physioex]

17. HFCS is basically...

Used in the US as a cheaper sugar substitute because corn is subsidized by the government. If you go to other countries you will see sugar as the more common sweetener.

And yes I agree with you HFCS is very bad since you body directly converts it into fat.

[bliss_eternal]

10. Are we spreading the word to boycott

to other Dems.,etc.?

[sweetheart]

12. Oh yea, limca and campa cola are better

You need only see a campa cola advert to get the irony of this.
It is done exactly like coca cola except with a sligght change in
lettering. As much as i myself could care less, i don't read any
nobiliy in to opposing coke and pepsi... it will simply be replaced
by indian brands doing the same stuff.

That bush has made americana and all its corporate cymbols univesally
hated around the world... THAT is the problem.... that coke runs
a ruthless operation to drain ground water is known and they've
not gone forward with UK plants for this reason... seems atlanta is
the only place they can call home.

[democracyindanger]

13. I was thinking along the same lines

Interesting how none of the major Indian brand sodas are targeted.

[manly]

14. pepsi/coke

That's symbols(the kind you mean), or cymbals(the kind you bang together). Please, a little effort in your spelling. We don't want to look like ignorami here, y'know?

[Straight Shooter]

15. Some people type very fast and make errors

Or maybe they aren't used to typing much at all.

Also, for dial-up users, the spellcheck function can be cumbersome. As long as the message gets through, it shouldn't matter if WSJ or NYT is trolling for articles to prove whether we're ignorant here, or not.

Peace. :)

[sweetheart]

22. deliberate multiple meanings

I meant both, and correct the spelling and then set it back.

I kinda did indeed mean clanging cybmbals of the icons of american
imperialism, ringing out the noise... and as well the symbols.
Welcome to DU.. where some people misspell, and some others use
poetic license. :-)

Frankly, i seldomly misspell, rather i love complexity, and without
ideograms, or latin, or a language with multiple, polylingual meanings,
english is do dang flat. :-)

If fits with the bush flat earth cult... but its a bummer.

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Uh...

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[proud patriot]

24. good for them

:thumbsup:

[cliss]

26. Now here's the interesting part:

I'm going to follow Coke & Pepsi stock for the next few days to see if anything happens. This ought to be very interesting.

The Hindus can be quite stubborn when they set their minds to it. And this is an explosive issue: clean drinking water. India currently has 1.5 billion people. The country has been in a periodic drought which has caused water shortages all over country. People desperately need to keep their drinking water safe.

The LAST thing they need is for these greedy companies to come in and take their drinking water.

I for one will be watching this development with interest over the next few days.

Thanks for the link, P.

[Vidar]

28. Good for India--banish the evil corporations. ( though these 2 are

actually pretty low on the list.)