[Jeanette X]

Is 1/3 of Americans a majority? Are they indicative of the rest of America? Are these villagers in India a majority?

I'm afraid you have misunderstood me I mean that we, a small handfull of people, are hotly debating the Iraq issue while 1/3 of America is astoundingly ignorant about it, and rest don't seem to care much more. My point is that simply because not that many people seem to care too deeply about the Iraq issue doesn't make it irrelevant.

When you hear that a few dozen farmers in Kansas have had their crops ruined for one reason or another, do you stop everything you are doing and start writing your Congressman demanding immediate action?

If it was caused by a giant corperation utterly screwing those people over, then yes, I would start writing letters to the appropriate people and boycotting their product.

Go ahead and criticize away. Just don't expect people to take you seriously when it's coconut farmers in a country that has a record of not being receptive to Western companies that are making the allegations.

Although India is not without fault in handling these situations, I think that the incident in Bhopal and the reaction of the Western company involved is a good reason for them to not be immdiately squealing with joy whenever a new factory opens up.

The need for Coke products by millions of people supercedes the needs of a few coconut farmers and the village dog. That's just the way the world works.

I'm not proposing that Coke stop making their products. I'd just like to see them do it without harming an entire community.