10 Crazy Facts About Coca cola

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10 Crazy Facts About Coca-Coca You Didn¶t Know

What you are about to read you won¶t find on any official Coca-Cola history site because thecorporation would rather keep these facts buried and forgotten about.

The soda giant Coca-Cola has been a favorite drink for millions of people all over the worldfor the last 100+ years. Through out the years the company has tried everything under the sunto sell their products to whomever they could which has brought a lot of controversy on tothem.

In the past 100 years the company has been in trouble with racism, child labor, water depletion and much more. I was truly speechless after some of the facts I heard about and youmight be to. So if you got an interest in Coca-Cola then this might be for you!



Inventor Of Coca Cola

As many people know, Coca-Cola was established in May 1886 by doctor/pharmacist JohnPemerton as a nerve tonic. What you probably didn¶t know was that Dr. Pemerton wasconsidered a junkie who was addicted to morphine big time. John died only 2 and half yearsafter establishing the soft drink and trademark.



Cocaine in Coca Cola

Now it¶s no big surprise to most people that Coca-Cola¶s main addictive ingredient wascocaine. About 60mg of the drug was used in each serving of Coke until 1903 when they



company claimed to have removed the ingredient. Funny thing about it is Coca-Cola still usesand imports coca leaves which are pretty much the main ingredient in the production of

cocaine. Also some officials for Coke claimed that the use of cocaine in the soft drink wasalways a rumor.





Slogan 1.



slogan 2.

Up till the early to late fifties Coca-Cola was believed to have healing properties and with

that some pretty unique slogans started to appear on the products. Some you might haveheard, others might be totally new to you.

1886 ³Coca-Cola Delicious, Refreshing, Exhilarating´ No doubt it was exhilarating whenthey were using cocaine as an additive.

1900 ³For Headache & Exhaustion, Drink Coca-Cola´ Again I don¶t know what cocaine

would do for a headache but there¶s no doubt the drug takes away exhaustion.

1905 ³Coca-Cola Revives and Sustains´



Coca-Cola & the Nazi¶s

Now as we all know Coca-Cola is an American made soda drink so when I was researching Nazi history for another article, I was totally surprised in what I found. In 1936, Coca-colasponsored the Berlin Olympics also known as the ³Nazi Olympics´. While Britain was at war with Germany the company continued to do business behind enemy lines and advertised

beside the Nazi Regime. As America enter the Second World War, German Coca-Cola bottling plants could no longer get the sugar/syrup to make the drink so they invented another drink for the Nazi public called ³Fanta´.

Coca-Cola and the Civil Rights Movement



Now again when I came across this fact it blew me away. A day before Martin Luther Kingwas assassinated he held a speech asking the people to boycott Coca-Cola and stop buying

their products because of the way the black workers were being treated. Supposedly whiteworkers where getting paid a much higher wage for little work where as the African

Americans where expected to do long hours and back breaking work for little pay and nochance of advancement within the ranks of the company.

Human Rights Violations and Murder in Colombia

1n the early 2000¶s, Colombia Coca-Cola bottle workers that were with the union startedreceiving death threats to leave the union, and if they didnµt comply then they would bekilled. Shortly after the message workers started turning up dead.

In 2004, a New York City councilor took a fact finding delegation to Colombia. Once therethe councilor found that the Coca-Cola workers were the victims of at least 179 major human

rights violations and 9 murders.

Then in Jan 2007 a group known as the ³Black Eagles´ went on TV to tell the Colombian

public if union workers and other didn¶t stop basically complaining about Coca-Cola¶s work ethics then they would be killed.

Coca-Cola was being blamed for not providing a safe work place and for not takingresponsibility for their actions which caused or allowed murders on their properties. SomeColombia officials go on to say or imply Coca-Cola is in someway responsible for thesemurders of union workers or allowed them to happen which they totally deny.

Biggest Racial Discrimination Payout

In only seems fair after all the stories about racial discrimination that finally in 2000 after investigations into the allegations the federal government found Coca-Cola guilty of thecharges and ordered them to pay the biggest racial discrimination payout in history. Coca-Cola had to pay various victims restitution which added up to nearly $200 million. If you ask



me that¶s nothing compared to what they should pay for the decades of abuse against their workers.

Coca-Cola & Coca Leaves



Although Coca-Cola is suppose to contain no trace of cocaine like officials say, one of themain ingredients is the coca leave which is the main key to making cocaine. It¶s a known factthat 8 tons of coca leaves are imported from South America each year by Coca-Cola and if any other regular citizen brought any of this into the states then chances are they would bearrested for drug trafficking.



Coca-Cola¶s War on Water

I have read some wild stuff about this company but this one I just couldnµt believe.

Years back Coca-Cola launched what some people call a ³War´ against water called ³Just sayno to H2O´. What this basically consisted of was the Coca-Cola Company offered its varioussuppliers like restaurants and so on incentives to push their products on customers when theyordered the free tap water. People eventually found a link on the internet and started sharingit which soon caused the ³War´ to end.



Coca-Cola & Water Depletion in India

Finally, this one had to be the biggest surprise to me. It takes 2 liters of water to make just 1liter of Coke. In 2004, farmers in India held protests because Coca-Cola bottling plants where

basically bleeding the water wells dry. It got so bad that Coke had to start shipping in water to many off its plants in 3rd world countries.

Over 290 billion liters of water are used every year by Coca-Cola around the globe and showsno signs of slowing down. As people in 3rd world countries continue to die because of a lack



of clean water, Coca-Cola¶s pockets just keep getting bigger and bigger at the expensive of innocent people.

10 Crazy Facts About Coca cola

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