A Coca-Cola plant in Mexico uses 1.08M liters of water per day as wells dry up

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Re: A Coca-Cola plant in Mexico uses 1.08M liters of water per day as wells dry up

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Post by vikiomega9 » Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 9:25 PM UTC

hackermailman wrote: post #111

panarky wrote: post #81

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Organized crime networks also like to hide behind shell companies, contractors and legitimate businesses. Investigators use the concept of cui bono to figure out who is ultimately responsible. Who benefits? Just because local distributors are doing the bribing doesn't insulate the megacorp from moral culpability for their actions. By the way, the bribes often aren't in cash, they're free cases of Coke.

True, but the real problem is obviously the money taken from Coca-Cola having a plant in Chiapas is not reaching the poorest inhabitants through urban planning/economic long term strategy and instead going into somebody's pocket. This is a political problem and nothing Coca-Cola can do will change that. Any attempt at companies getting involved in local activism will just put those people at even more risk. For the w…

So at what point does a megacorp, with all of its power and wealth, decide to do something good? Will we ever get to a point where we can we at least try to evolve towards sustainable capitalism?

Re: A Coca-Cola plant in Mexico uses 1.08M liters of water per day as wells dry up

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Post by JimWestergren » Fri, Sep 22, 2017, 9:00 AM UTC

afsina wrote: post #97

panarky wrote: post #51

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Coke is huge in this part of Chiapas, especially in indigenous areas. I was there last spring, and my guide said Coca-Cola bribed the village curanderos (spiritual healers) to increase the consumption of Coke, so they incorporated it into religious rituals [0]. The water isn't safe to drink, and Coke can be cheaper than milk or formula, so many moms feed their babies Coke instead [1]. The point is, when the megacorp…

>The water isn't safe to drink, and Coke can be cheaper than milk or formula, so many moms feed their babies Coke instead [1]. I find your reasons hard to believe and your reference #1 proves nothing. If water is not contaminated chemically, boiling is the solution like millions of people do daily. I also find it hard to believe milk is more expensive than coke as UHT milk is easy to import in large quantities and ch…

I don't know about Mexico but in Bolivia Coca-Cola is around half of the price of milk. I've heard that there are mothers giving coke to babies but never seen it. (I lived 4 years in Bolivia).

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