Coke’s CEO said recently of what he called governments efforts to tell people what to eat and drink . “If it worked, the Soviet Union would still be around.”
First they came for our soda pop.US Legislators have floated an idea which has bubbled to the surface to mitigate health care costs with a possible tax on soft drinks. First the alleged death panels now they want to tax our bubbly sugar water . Is Obama going too far, attempting too much, over reach? He even went so far as to suggest that perhaps the tax should be explored and that people may be drinking too much soda. ”I actually think it’s an idea that we should be exploring,” Obama said in an interview with Men’s Health magazine going on sale this week. “There’s no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda.”
No doubt also part of the long term socialistic-communistic-liberalistic plan to destroy the Pepsi Generation ™ the New York City health dept. has unveiled a subway bill board ad campaign that feature images of globs of fat flowing out of what appears to be coke poured out over ice .
The beverage industry released a statement claiming that the NYC health dept. ad campaign singling out sugary soft drinks runs the danger of minimized obesity .
Like most foods, soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are a source of calories. Simply naming one food source as a unique contributor minimizes a disease as complex as obesity.
– How or why targeting a heavily promoted ubiquitous product known to help cause obesity minimizes the issue was not explained .
It is the real thing ….
In 2001, the soft-drink industry included approximately five hundred U.S. bottlers with more than 183,000 employees, and it achieved retail sales of more than $61billion . Americans that year consumed an average of 55 gallons of soft drinks per person, up from 48 in 1990 and 34 in 1980.
A recent Bloomberg survey rated coke as the best world wide brand name above IBM and Microsoft even McDonalds