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Originally posted by Acidtastic
Don't fret, they'll find another country to dessimate and poison. Your beverages will not change, just a shift in damage from one country to another
Originally posted by dayve
Originally posted by Amarri
reply to post by dayve
Sprite is made by the Coca-Cola Company...
But is it all coca cola products or just coke.... The fate of humanity just might lay in this decision ...
Originally posted by stanguilles7
This is some fascinating political posturing. The Mayan calender? Seriously?
I'm not sure his angle, other than local politics and anti-american sentiment.
Originally posted by stanguilles7
I find it very odd that an official government spokesperson makes references to an American new age mythology, instead of listing the myriad valid compalins with coca cola's business practices.
The company reduced the amount of coc aine in its beverage but could not remove it entirely, since their trademark rested on the fact that it was part of the beverage. In 1913, the company came up with a compromise: it tried to eliminate the active ingredient in coc aine by replacing it with "spent coca leaves," which are still used today for flavoring.
In the U.S.A.'s legislation, coca leaves are specifically mention, with a DEA number, in the list of controled substances :
Schedule II
Coca Leaves
DEA number : 9040
Schedule : II
Narc : Y
Yet a disposition similar to that of the U.N. Single Convention, regarding coca leaves as a flavouring agent, is also found within the United State's Food and Drug Administration rulings. This slightly odd tolerance was most likely tailor made for the Coca-Cola company...
Coca leaves are thus regulated worldwide by the 1961 U.N. Single Convention, yet decocainized leaves still have a special mention and status, at least in the politically influential U.S.A. which was behind the establishment of this U.N. convention...Interestingly enough, and despite this disposition, the actual taste and flavour of coca leaves have found little culinary uses outside the soft-drink industry.
This "decocainization" itself is very blurry notion,for a number of reasons.. "coc aine" and "egconine" for instance, are not the only active alkaloid in the coca leaf spectrum...
Yet "decocainized" leaves, non psychoactive are considered a flavouring agent and allowed special FDA ( hence D.E.A. disposition, for the supervision of importation) authorizations such as the Coca-Cola company's, or, more recently, the new Redbull cola.
Coca-Cola replaced unprocessed coca leaves with "spent" coca leaves, which have gone through a coc aine extraction process, and served only to flavor the beverage.[5] These changes were in response to increasing pressure from the Food and Drug Administration, which was carrying on a campaign against harmful food ingredients and misleading claims, under the direction of Harvey Washington Wiley.[5] The coca leaves are imported from Peru, and they are treated by US chemical company Stepan, which then sells the de-cocainized residue to Coca-Cola
Fast-food represents the complete opposite of what Bolivians consider a meal should be. To be a good meal, food has to have be prepared with love, dedication, certain hygiene standards and proper cook time.
What I'd like to know is what happens to the base coc aine after it is extracted from the leaf. It appears to me that Coke sells the crap to the poor and the good part to the rich.
Originally posted by Trueman
Way to go bolivians, notice Bolivia is also the only country in the world where McDonald's failed BIG TIME.
Fast-food represents the complete opposite of what Bolivians consider a meal should be. To be a good meal, food has to have be prepared with love, dedication, certain hygiene standards and proper cook time.
www.treehugger.com...
Originally posted by lucid eyes
Not a day goes by without some feeble-minded socialist offering yet another serving of their delusional lose-lose philosophy. "Lets ban coke and await the mayan enlightenment".
Originally posted by r2d246
I WILL PEER INTO MY CRYSTAL BALL....