NEWS: Coca-Cola Cashes in on Green Trend

Damn you Malloreigh! that's one more thing I'm going to have to stop buying. If I keep this up I'll soon be living on a farm making everything I need for myself. But out of curiousity, what's 'fair trade coffee'? I've never heard that term before, but then again I'm not a coffee drinker. Anyway, I really enjoyed your article, very informative.

coca-cola raped and murdered my family.

I've missed you.

Good article.

ok, so i work for vista bakery, owned by lance incorporated, whose ceo is david singer. david singer is not only related to the sewing machine singers but he also is an ex-ceo of coke, i guess they credit him with bringing the company out of financial dire straits. i dunno.

anyway, this guy makes like 400,000 bucks a MONTH at lance but gets several million a year from coke to just not work for pepsi. if coke has that kind of money, i seriously doubt (like i would ever not suspect a large mega-corp of not caring) that coke gives shit number one about anything green except greenbacks.

besides, how can the coffee be fair trade if the fair trade part involves not buying the coffee from a large company, but rather a small farmner-owned co-op?

meh. i'll never go there.

besides, mister moto's cafe is only a half mile from my house.

how come they never play that Jack White song anymore??

I'm gonna buy more Coke just to piss off these activists or whoever's whining about it because they annoy me.

Yeah, that's good, throw away what little power you have left.

i need to find me a job like that.. anyone looking to hire a non-employee?

and this fair trade coffee sounds like a marketing/hype term than informative.. my guess of the concept (without research because i was going to bed an hour ago, curse you interweb! curse you!) still leaves alot to be desired in the "helping the little guy" out field..

yeah, who cares about the right wing death squads Coke pays to murder trade union activists in colombia, or the fact that CocaCola stole millions of litres of precious water in Kerala India leaving drought like conditions and forcing farmers off their land


I ran a Boycott Coke campaign in my college a few years ago. We had a vote to try and stop the students Union from sellling Coke products in their shops or Bar.

The vote failed because right wingers campaigned on 'freedom of choice' which is complete nonsense because Coke does not care about our freedom of choice, if they had their way, they would have exclusive sales agreements everywhere in the world where the only products available to consume are coke products.

fair trade is a brand, but it's a not for profit brand, a mark available to any commodity that meets certain minimum criteria for their products. they must be organic, they must pay the primary producer a decent price and the producer must treat any employees he/she has properly.

it's an excellent program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade

...because the degree to which you are annoyed is clearly the most important issue at stake.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder how you would react if Osama bin Laden decided to start up an ice cream company. If other people refused to support him by buying his products, would you have the same disdain for them? Would those of us who criticized his ice cream company just be "whining"? Would you buy from him just to piss us off?

Granted, the example is extreme, but I think it makes my point.

Also, you probably shouldn't say things like: "these activists or whoever," because it shows that you don't even have a clear idea of who is supposed to be annoying you. Maybe you are completely trolling, but if not, then at least try to understand what your position is supposed to be before you say stupid shit.

The first time I saw that place, I knew something was up. No coffee shop as hippie/hipster as it pretends to be would set up shop in fucking Yorkville, even if they could afford it.

The primary ingredients in Coke are sugar and carbon dioxide. As Alice (in Wonderland) reminded us: "If you keep drinking from a bottle marked 'poison' sooner or later it's bound to disagree with you."

I'm consuming a stolen can right now.
Yummy gooey poison.

pepsi is better anyway.

Hate to say it, but it's easy, it's convenient, it tastes good, and so I'm going to keep buying it. Especially since they make the only diet sodas I can actually stand to ingest.

But hey, if a more people/environment-friendly soda company comes along with enough market penetration to make their product a viable purchase at fast food restaurants and vending machines, I'll switch... (I tend to assume Pepsi's nearly as bad, if not worse. But if not...yay, I get their products more often anyhow.)

BOOOOO!

Coke? They're only one part of the Corn-Industrial Complex that rules this nation. If you really wan't to make a statement, just try buying some food that isn't made with some form of processed corn in it. It's worse then trying to buy something that isn't made in China.

Most of the Carbon in American's bodies is derived from corn. If you were to compare a Carbon 14 analysis between an American human with American corn, guess what you'd likely find out: they're virtually identical! Yep, that's right friends, were walking talking tortilla chips.

Hopefully soon, Americans will 'discover' alternatives to the monocultures that have silently poisoned our society (oil, corn & Starbucks). I sense a thesis here.

And that would be? I mostly drink water (and not the bottled kind), but I guarantee you people are dying over access to it right now and it's projected to be one of the primary resources fought over in the not-too-distant future. Just about any kind of soda is going to be bad for someone in the mix. Definitely me among them. Fruit juice is okay in limited doses, but the big cola companies own most of the readily available varieties and so they presumably aren't a better purchase. I realize that there are more eco-friendly varieties out there, but they're not sold from vending machines, they aren't dispensed at low-cost restaurants, and they're far too expensive for me to bother with them at home when I could just as easily drink some filtered water. Tea I don't like. Coffee's bad for you in more than small doses and I only really like the heavily sugared varieties anyway (which are very expensive and not remotely good for you.)

I do recognize the problems inherent in some of my purchasing decisions (though I must admit I hadn't heard about these charges against Coke previously), but unless I'm offered a similarly viable choice, I just don't see that changing. Maybe when I'm making a full-time wage I'll be able to err on the side of ethics.

(And yes, I know soda's not a good use of my money, either, which is why I don't buy it except when I'm out and that's my main option.)

Dude...I dunno about all that, but I'm still not buying anything that says 'Distributed by Coca Cola Company'.