Good News: Coca Cola is Going Down
This happens not a day too soon. Coca Cola has been considered the world’s most valuable brand for the last 13 years straight. But this year they go all the way down to number three:
NYT: Apple Passes Coca-Cola as Most Valuable Brand
However, Coca Cola is still number one on the list of the worlds’ most deceitful and disease-spreading companies, according to my calculations. Always something!
While it is worthwhile to provide nutrition & ingredient information so your readers (patients?) may make informed choices ... I doubt you do them a service by identifying products or companies as 'deceitful & disease spreading'...as this takes the focus away from personal responsibility.
I would call such attention-rerouting ads quite deceitful. Not te mention sponsorship of a conference about child obesity. Are they not ashamed?
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OTOH, maybe they will change. After all, they no longer add cocaine to their drinks.
Sure personal responsibility is all well and good.. so long as the advice of the expert sources we rely on to make our own choices, is sound and trustworthy.
The ONLY interest they have in meeting consumer demands is if it helps increase the profits for their shareholders' bottom line.
And why does your comment sound so much like an advert for Coke?
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I'm all for personal responsibility. Which is why I now consider the badly-deranged USDA to be irrelevant. A goodly percentage of my health problems are due to really bad advice I have gotten from sources that I should have been able to trust.
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The reason Mike's comment sounds so much like an advert for Coke is the high probability that it is exactly that. High-profile companies being called out for their bad behavior are increasingly hiring "reputation management" firms who then recruit folks to post comments like that in an effort to deflect the richly-deserved condemnation they are getting.
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The next step is for "Mike" to deny that he works for such a firm, and is merely stating his own opinion. Wait for it....
Reynolds Tobacco has been around 138 years.
What's your point?
Yes, the focus should be personal responsibility. Take responsibility and ditch the addiction. No more Coke. Someone should come out with "Coke patches" or "e-drinks" to help addicts kick the habit. "Diabetes--It's a Real Thing."