Time to abandon Killer Coke
I have read a lot about Coca-Cola’s involvement with anti people practices and in the past I have dismissed them as a media campaign to discredit a successful company that has served the world with a drink for generations. However, my latest discovery is the final blow to that inner part of me that has so much clung on to coke even with stories of unethical practices. You see I love coke so much that even when the doctor advised that I should take less sugar and specifically pointed out that I should not take more 300ml of coke every week, I still drank Diet Coke after convincing myself that it contained less sugar. The truth is that I could not fathom the idea of being separated from my favourite drink of years. We have all read about Coke’s alleged unethical practices in the past. Their continued stay in South Africa during its apartheid era (even when its competitors left out of morality) made Coca Cola effectively an accomplice to human rights abuses and I know of friends who...