I'll never drink Coca Cola again

[Bluzmann57]

I actually prefer Pepsi and always have, but after that awful commercial during the Super Bowl featuring Carville and (ugh) Frist, I will make sure that Coca-Cola never crosses my lips again. It has to be seen to be believed. Likely on youtube somewhere.

[Oceansaway]

1. me neither...n/t

[stray cat]

2. I liked it!

[mdmc]

3. i've been off soda for months now

:kick:

[Cleita]

4. That's not the only reason to not buy Coca Cola. They have a

really poor human rights record in third world countries.

[liberalmuse]

5. Well I'm sure not going to go searching for it, LOL.

What possessed them to pull out the fug? As someone who has boycotted Coke for years, I couldn't be more pleased.

[caligirl]

6. gave up soad over a year ago, my stomach is so much calmer glad I did it.

[spotbird]

7. Aren't Frist and Carville redundant anyway? nt

[greenbriar]

8. I am a pepsi girl

I loved their commercial that had Charlie Brown getting something for a change


but they ruined it with Carville/Frist

[noamnety]

9. Just in case you need other reasons to reinforce your boycott:

"After witnessing murder by paramilitary forces in Columbia, union leader Luis Cardona - now on political asylum for one year - shared last night his experiences struggling to organize laborers in the Carepa Coca-Cola bottling plant and his recent efforts to improve labor conditions in his country.'

http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2003/03/20/News/Columbian.Union.Issues.Brought.To.u-1416658.shtml

"# Communities across India living around Coca-Cola's bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages, directly as a result of Coca-Cola's massive extraction of water from the common groundwater resource. The wells have run dry and the hand water pumps do not work any more. Studies, including one by the Central Ground Water Board in India, have confirmed the significant depletion of the water table.

# When the water is extracted from the common groundwater resource by digging deeper, the water smells and tastes strange. Coca-Cola has been indiscriminately discharging its waste water into the fields around its plant and sometimes into rivers, including the Ganges, in the area. The result has been that the groundwater has been polluted as well as the soil. Public health authorities have posted signs around wells and hand pumps advising the community that the water is unfit for human consumption.

# In two communities, Plachimada and Mehdiganj, Coca-Cola was distributing its solid waste to farmers in the area as "fertilizer". Tests conducted by the BBC found cadmium and lead in the waste, effectively making the waste toxic waste. Coca-Cola stopped the practice of distributing its toxic waste only when ordered to do so by the state government.

# Tests conducted by a variety of agencies, including the government of India, confirmed that Coca-Cola products contained high levels of pesticides, and as a result, the Parliament of India has banned the sale of Coca-Cola in its cafeteria. However, Coca-Cola not only continues to sell drinks laced with poisons in India (that could never be sold in the US and EU), it is also introducing new products in the Indian market."

http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/index.html

Dasani water is also made by coca-cola.

[robbedvoter]

10. How about there's crap in it that can disolve your teeth? Commercials never

have an effect on me - I never drink that - period,