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shockra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 01:53 AM
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4. Not only that...
Coca-Cola Strikes Again!

With one documented lie after another, Coke has demonstrated that it has no compassion for animals, and no regard for the truth. Coca-Cola openly trades its integrity in pursuit of profits.

Coke has a long, bloody history of sponsoring bullrings in Mexico, Spain and other bullfighting countries. When SHARK successfully campaigned to force Pepsi Cola to remove its advertisements from bullrings in the late 1990s, Coke promised it had already dumped bullfighting years before. It was a lie. Coke's ads were still in the bullrings. Pepsi's ads are now gone.

Coke continues to sponsor rodeos -- pouring money into the violent abuse, maiming and killing of countless animals, even after promising in writing that it would no longer do so. It was another Coke lie. Coke ads remain in rodeos across North America.

Coke sponsors greyhound racing, an industry that annually kills thousands of "surplus" animals ranging from excess puppies to older racing dogs that can no longer make money for their exploiters. The greyhound industry also uses live animals such as rabbits as "lures." These animals are often allowed to be torn apart by the greyhounds as part of their "training."

http://www.sharkonline.org/indexcoke.mv

Some of Coke's most common products:

Bacardi Mixers
Barq's
Canada Dry
Cherry Coke
Crystal
Dasani water
Dr. Pepper
Fanta
Fresca
Fruitopia
Hi-C Punch
Ice Mountain
Limonaid products
Mello Yello
Minute Maid products
Mr. Pibb
Nescafe
Nestea products
Power aid
Red Lion
Refresh Tea
Splash
Sprite
Squirt
Sun Valley
Tab
Tai
Tasters Choice

The address for Coke's CEO -- Doug Daft(yup) is on the SHARK webpage.
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