a short excerpt...read more about this and about how coke poisons people as well, in addition to having little concern for draining key water supplies from poor people...
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In a "goodwill gesture", Coca-Cola was distributing the solid waste from its bottling plants to farmers in the area (a small town in India) as fertilizer. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) had the waste tested and found extremely high levels of heavy metals such as lead and cadmium in the waste, effectively making the solid waste toxic.
When confronted by the BBC reporter on their practice of distributing toxic waste as fertilizer, Coca-Cola's Vice-President said, "It's good for the farmers because most of them are poor." The Coca-Cola company was ordered to stop the practice by the government authorities immediately.
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Friday, March 31, 2006
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