- Mar 9, 2011
- 70,190
- 83,955
- 3,635
Interesting.
"Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist..."
"Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation - both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association. This picked up in 2011-2013 - when the Farm Bill and soda taxes were under consideration."
"The conversations inside these rooms was depressingly transactional: "We (Coke) will give you money. You need to paint opponents of us as racist."
"I watched as the FDA funneled money to professors at leading universities - as well as think tanks on the left and right - to create studies showing soda taxes hurt the poor. They also paid for studies that say drinking soda DIDN'T cause obesity."
"Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist..."
"Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation - both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association. This picked up in 2011-2013 - when the Farm Bill and soda taxes were under consideration."
"The conversations inside these rooms was depressingly transactional: "We (Coke) will give you money. You need to paint opponents of us as racist."
"I watched as the FDA funneled money to professors at leading universities - as well as think tanks on the left and right - to create studies showing soda taxes hurt the poor. They also paid for studies that say drinking soda DIDN'T cause obesity."
