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Originally Posted by AChimp
[Right. So back to how that justifies perpetuating such conditions....?
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Perpetuating how? Like I said in my previous post, Coke is providing a product that millions of Indians use, throw away and stop caring about like the rest of us.
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Perpetuating by the toxic slurry and the draining of the water, thats how!
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There's a lot of ill-will remaining in India against Coke because this, though, and I think that these people will say anything to try to make Coke look bad. Notice that nobody there starts bitching about Pepsi, who were never asked to reveal their secrets. Also note how the names of the reporters who wrote those articles are Indian.
Coke is a huge global company now. They don't even count as a multinational anymore; they're bigger than that. Coke will not be "disgorging" toxic waste anywhere. Factory conditions and standards are kept to an absolute maximum, because the last thing they want is a big PR battle. Humans aren't even allowed into the room where the actual Coke is produced unless there is a problem because everything has to be kept perfectly clean, that's why they don't need thousands of employees anymore.
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Oh, bullshit. If this was all true, then why is there an independent BBC investigation that says that the "fertilizer" that they gave to the Indians is toxic?
So just because the names of the reporters were Indian means that the report can't possibly be objective? Do you really think that all of India's billions of people are pissed off at Coke for not revealing their secret formula? I doubt the majority even care.
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These farmers are just trying to keep a decades-old feud active in grand old Indian tradition and attempting to justify their archaic lifestyle. If you can't keep up, don't bitch about how everyone should slow down for you. There wouldn't even BE a Coke plant in India if Indians weren't drinking Coke.
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Did it ever occur to you that the Coke might be being EXPORTED, numbnuts? And I'd hardly call growing badly needed food with a sophisticated irrigation system "an archaic lifestyle", especially when Coke isn't providing a lot of jobs to these people.