Amazing.
How deep does the hate go for the truth?
Please putchase Coke products as much as usual, they have done nothing wrong except be themselves while trying to change their ICONS. The way I see the image on the new Coke cans, is they are less prominent than the old holiday images. I think Coke is attempting to remove the old icons and move into a different promotion for their products. Nowhere on the can does it promote a belief system and it is a shame the company is being harassed based on politcal agendas rather than the FREEDOM OF THE TRUTH.
...“We launched ‘Arctic Home’ (click title to entry - thank you) to raise awareness and funds for the polar bear. … We committed up to $3 million to World Wildlife Fund and are encouraging others to join us in helping protect the bears and their habitat,” spokesman Rand Carpenter wrote via email. “The plan is to continue shipping the billion-plus white cans until they run out and we are nearing that now.”...
National Wildlife Federation (click here)
I realize there are problems with high fructose corn syrup in the American diet, especially among children's food products, but, Coca Cola is a legitimate part of Americana as is apple pie. The use of these products are not outlawed, but, only a matter of awareness to the problem with excess intake in a child's diet or the diet of adults.
If Coca Cola wants to promote an very threatened species based in scientific fact and accounting that is a moral venue. They have used the Polar Bear successfully in advertising and they feel a moral obligation, as they should, no different than Pacific Life has Humpback Whales as their icon.
Scientists know for a fact when threatened and endangered species are in front of the public such as with the Humpback Whale and the Polar Bear it is helpful to the species so long as the public respects the protections surrounding these species. People should not interact with wild animals as it changes their behaviors and endangers them further, but, if large corporations believe their reputation is improved by endearing these species with their products, there is mutual benefit. That is a fact.
Polar Bear
Genus: Ursus Species: maritimus
Polar bears are in serious danger of going extinct due to global warming.
Rising temperatures cause sea ice to melt, especially in the summer months when the polar bears are the most active. Polar bears depend on sea ice as habitat for hunting and dens....
The Polar Bears are definately a threatened species because their habitat is disappearing. It is the truth and fact. Just that simple. The ice is disappearing because it is melting due to warming oceans and seas caused by human induction of global warming. The threatened status of the Polar Bear is directly to the Climate Crisis and spirally carbon dioxide levels. Cause and effect.
Arctic Ocean Ice Melts to near Record Levels (click here)
By Genalyn C.
October 5, 2011 7:58 PM EST
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean declined to its second lowest level on record last month, satellite observations show.,
NASA;s National Snow and Ice Data Center reported the melting, citing its satellite data. The level almost hit the record low recorded in 2007, but without the unusual weather conditions that contributed to the extreme melt that time….
Is Coca Cola a part of Americana? Is there any question? Ever seek out proof at museums?
21st Century … (click here)The
Off hand I don't know how many Americans are employed in PRODUCTION PLANTS in the USA by the Coca Cola Company. Their local distribution depends on local employment for delivery drivers and warehousing.
This isn't the first time Coca-Cola has lent itself to vital causes. The Red Campaign found a friend in Coca-Cola as well (click here).
If the production model for Coca Cola is anything like that for Budweiser, then there are many plants throughout the USA. In the case of Budweiser, there are Clydesdale Habitats where their production facilities are found.
Budweiser Clydesdale Auctioned to Benefit Habitat Restoration (click here)
by: The Associated Press
A Budweiser Clydesdale filly went for $20,000 at a fund-raising auction staged by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in Reno. Rodger Fleming of Butler, Pa., a member of the foundation's board of directors, submitted the winning bid Saturday for the 8-month-old horse named Kindred. Plans call for the animal to be housed at the foundation's Elk Mountain Homestead in Benezette, Pa.,...
Most corporations have Non-Profit Foundations that secure monies to benefit social activities of one kind or another. Those charitable activities can benefit the adverse press the company may be receiving. It is legal. The monies do help those the fund seeks to benefit. So attacking a company based on the activities of its charitable activities should not win political gains as it victimizes those helped by the funds.
The campaign against child obesity is real and this is a way for Coca Cola to say in a moral way, it loves children and never sought to injury them. Okay? I don't believe that is a bad message. It is up to government to reign in the abuse of advertising and product distribution when it is adversely effecting the citizens of this country and children are citizens. If Coca Cola is a part of something wonderful to prevent the extinction of Polar Bears then it has acted to morally support its use of the Polar Bear in advertizing.
Where corporations, Wall Street, is a problem is where they export American jobs and seek to exploit the free market system to benefit themselves while injuring citizens physically or fiscally. The government has an obligation to control the exploitation of the private sector and when government fails in doing THEIR JOBS there needs to be protests and demonstrations until circumstances are resolved to a benevolence of the citizen.
