even if they don't have cocaine in them they still use the leaves much loved for over a century
Coca-Cola is not free from controversy these are the top 10 disturbing moments in the history of
Coca-Cola Coca-Cola's Colombian history I am not a hot head I am Colombian possibly The Darkest Day
in the history of the Coca-Cola Company occurred on December 5th 1986. if only because this day
included an actual loss of human life on that day members of a right-wing paramilitary unit showed
up at a Coca-Cola Bottling plant in korepa Colombia and when the plans Union executive
approached the men to ask them why they were there they opened fire on him taking his life
immediately hey they then proceeded to Ambush the Union's headquarters destroying equipment
and burning records as they went the very next day these men confronted the Factory's union workers
and gave them a choice they could either quit their jobs or they could receive the same kind
of treatment as the union executive the majority of employees understandably chose to get out of
the factory immediately leaving the paramilitary unit to take over the factory for two whole months
when Coca-Cola finally did get around to opening the factory again they replaced their workers
with entirely new employees and offered them substantially reduced pay while it cannot be
proven that Coca-Cola themselves had anything to do with the actions of the paramilitary unit
the company has still been criticized for refusing to act quicker when they showed
up especially considering the lives of at least five other Coca-Cola union workers in Colombia
were threatened around the same time whether the company had anything to do with this or not
regardless they definitely benefited from being able to replace union workers with new employees
it would work for less and their overall lack of action around the subject has been the cause
of plenty of controversy Coca-Cola's reasoning for removing illicit substances what I give you
is a wine with cocaine it may sound like little more than a schoolyard rumor but it is true that
Coca-Cola gets its name at least partly from the fact that it used to contain traces of an illicit
substance there are debates regarding how much of this substance was actually present in the soft
drink and rumors are still floating around that you may still be able to find small traces of it
to this day but Coca-Cola officially began slowly removing it from the list of ingredients sometime
around 1903 and not necessarily for the reason you might think Coca-Cola had begun offering
their Cola in bottles in 1899 and this option quickly proved popular among African-American
consumers in particular as they didn't have access to fountain pop at the time due to segregation
laws this started a pen among white middle to upper class individuals who suggested that
African-American people having easy access to this illicit substance could lead to increased violence
which is the reason why Coca-Cola began removing it from their product I'm very disappointed in you
one might think that the potential of increased Addiction in the general public would be a greater
concern than imagined violence but apparently that just didn't occur to anyone at the time Coca-Cola
takes advantage of Peruvian Farmers shame on you although Coca-Cola insists that their colas no
longer contain illicit substances they do still use the coca leaf prepared in such a way where
the substance is not active but that being said distribution of the coca leaf is illegal almost
worldwide and Coca-Cola is the only company in the U.S allowed to legally take in shipments of
the coca leaf from Peruvian Farmers with only the one company available to do business with these
Peruvian Farmers have essentially no other option than to accept whatever Coca-Cola is willing to
pay them and if their previous lack of action in Colombia was any indication Coca-Cola is willing
to tolerate some pretty brutal extremes if it will make them money unacceptable although the company
had accumulated a total net worth of 38.66 billion dollars in 2021 the farmers that Supply them with
one of their most well-known ingredients remain impoverished which is something that the company
has seemingly gone out of their way to avoid having to publicly address considering these
are people who put a lot of work into supplying the world of they legally distributed and much
beloved product these Farmers definitely deserve to be making at least a living wage and so it
would be great to see Coca-Cola change their stance on this Coca-Cola causes water shortages
you folks have a water problem while Coca-Cola has kept the full list of ingredients used to
make their so a closely guarded secret since the company's Inception one ingredient that we know
to be extremely important is water in fact it takes roughly .71 gallons of water to make only
.26 gallons of Coca-Cola and so you can see why it's a crucial ingredient water is necessary for
sustaining all life as well and if too much of that water is going toward the production
of sugary sodas that contain no nutritional value this can become a problem especially when it comes
to factories that are based out of countries that don't have access to a whole lot of clean water to
begin with when Coca-Cola sets up a new bottling plant they drain the area of its groundwater which
not only has an effect on the local drinking water but to the production of crops as well which over
time has led to food shortages in areas such as India and Latin America okay that is sad in fact
this has had an effect on nearly every aspect of the local lives as groundwater is dependent
on for everything a decade of protesting has led to one plant in India being shut down in
response to this in 2015 but the Coca-Cola Company draining developing countries of their groundwater
continues to be a problem to this day as we keep moving on take a second to hit that like button
would ya thank you next just how unhealthy is Coca-Cola if you want zero calorie water try
Diet Water zero light we all know that soda isn't necessarily the healthiest choice of drinks but
it's not like it can kill you can it uh you tell me Well in the case of mother of eight Natasha
Harris from invercargill New Zealand it may just have Harris suffered from cardiac arrhythmia
at the still young age of 30 and the autopsy performed shortly afterward confirmed that her
health issues could be linked to her excessive consumption of Coca-Cola according to Harris's
family her addiction to Cola was to the point that she would suffer from symptoms of withdrawal if
she went too long without it becoming shaky and short-tempered before her untimely passing Harris
had even been forced to have all of her teeth removed after the enamel rotted through due to
her excessive soda consumption the Coca-Cola company refused to take responsibility for
Harris's passing instead choosing to lay the blame on other lifestyle factors but this case does open
up the question of just how addictive is Coca-Cola in no uncertain terms the corridor who performed
Harris's autopsy made it clear that her life could have been saved if she had consumed less of the
soda and the fact that she'd already been dealing with multiple massive health concerns that weren't
enough to deter her definitely makes you wonder if something truly Sinister could be happening here
Coca-Cola was very different before prohibition I'd like your eight dollars bottle of wine
please believe it or not more than one addictive substance has been found in the ingredients list
for Coca-Cola when company founder John Pemberton first conceived of the soft drink back in 1885
not only did it contain the illicit substance for which it gets its name but wine as well
back then the drink was being sold as a tonic for nerves however it was only one year later
that prohibition was enacted in Atlanta where the Coca-Cola company was based and so the wine was
moved and more sugar was added to make up for the change in taste according to tests performed by
the paris-based National Institute of consumption in the summer of 2012 over half of all colas sold
today still contain small traces of alcohol just a little bit I can't stress the littleness of it
enough but Coca-Cola maintains that they no longer added as an ingredient any remaining alcohol in
the mix is apparently naturally occurring and it has not been legally recognized as an alcoholic
beverage but especially considering Coca-Cola's contrary Beginnings this study caused a bit of
a panic in countries that still have a strict anti-drinking culture misleading medical studies
I have both type 1 and 2 diabetes wow while it may seem like common knowledge that Coca-Cola contains
a lot of sugar and that sugar has been linked to obesity the company has been accused of minimizing
just how concerned the public should be with the amount of sugar they use in 2015 Coca-Cola paid
one million dollars to the University of Colorado foundation in order to ensure that their Research
into obesity focused more on the role of exercise when it comes to weight loss than on what you put
into your body Coca-Cola was allowed to design the website for This research hired academics who had
received funding from them in the past and at one point even admitted that their goals were
akin to a political campaign this led to the misconception that sugary drinks just aren't
that big of a deal while simultaneously putting the blame on their customers lack of activity
for their weight gain well look hey it's all your fault well it's definitely true that an
active lifestyle will lead to a healthier body in general it's difficult to deny that Coca-Cola may
play a factor in obesity when a single can of soda exceeds your daily recommended amount of
sugar according to the World Health Organization and yet despite this the company continues to
maintain that cutting calories would not make a difference in their customers Health targeting
high schools I'm rich I'm rich tobacco companies aren't the only ones who've realized that you
can make lifelong consumers by targeting young people in the 1990s Coca-Cola tried to do the
exact same thing in American high schools they began offering schools premiums of around thirty
thousand dollars up front and then a commission in exchange for exclusive rights to sell their soft
drinks in vending machines and the cafeteria and considering these schools were often struggling
to get by financially to begin with many of them jumped at the opportunity we need the money the
problem with this is that schools who were able to sell more products received a bigger bonus
meaning that the soft drinks were practically pushed upon the unsuspecting students in some
cases the Coca-Cola Company he wouldn't even allow the school in question to offer healthier
options like milk or water alongside their soda leaving students with literally no other option
one school in Syracuse New York was even paid 90 thousand dollars to build a giant Coca-Cola
sign over the stadium meaning that students were literally being advertised to while they
were trying to get an education while this may have contributed a bit to the Obesity problem
in America over time it may bring you a little Comfort to know that the Coca-Cola Company seems
to be paying for it nowadays as for the last 10 years the biggest hit to Coca-Cola's profits has
been people's changing health habits Coca-Cola's war on water water sucks have you had a glass of
water yet today we all know how important it is and that we should probably be drinking more of it
water improves our mood AIDS and weight loss and keeps our skin looking flawless and yet despite
all this Coca-Cola actually launched a campaign against water in the the early 2000s by the name
of H2 no this campaign targeted restaurants in particular as the company would try and convince
waiters and waitresses to push their products on customers by telling them that water is boring
whereas soda is the much more exciting Choice it is the best this had the Dual benefit of customers
spending more money on Coca-Cola products while simultaneously encouraging them to spend more
money at the restaurant as well while it may be true that a soft drink can sometimes add to your
overall dining experience we can definitely see a bit of a pattern here of the Coca-Cola company
trying to actively dissuade their customers from making healthy choices for themselves
false advertising fake fake fake fake there have been quite a few instances of Coca-Cola trying to
sell their soft drinks by using a few stretched truths some a little more duplicitous than others
for instance over the last 50 years Coca-Cola has been pushing the soft drink on indigenous
communities south of the border with a focus on its so-called health benefits which has led to
some religious organizations such as one Church in Chiapas Mexico touting the drink as having magical
properties some have even accepted the soft drink to have healing properties and Coca-Cola
has done nothing to contradict this belief in their local advertising why would you do that
and this you're trying to trick me somehow in an even more blatant instance of Coca-Cola engaging
in false advertising the company found that when they first moved into India their soft
drink just wasn't as popular there as they had hoped Coca-Cola packed up shop and left
India initially in 1977 around the same time that an Indian company known as sums up began
selling their own soft drink thumbs up proved an immediate hit in a way that Coca-Cola just
wasn't at the time which is why Coca-Cola eventually ended up buying and rebranding
the company you may have thought that you were supporting local by buying a thumbs up soda in
India at the time but the money was actually going into Coca-Cola's pocket all along allowing
them to bring their own Cola back to India in 1993. I see what you did there good one