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...Embarrass Americans into saying no to that second helping of cheesecake? Taxing calories? Hauling the corporate chiefs of Frito-Lay and Coca-Cola before a congressional committee, as happened in 1994 with the heads of seven tobacco companies, and suing them? There have been many instances in which government has either rallied a majority to rescue a group of suffering Americans, as in the War on Poverty, or tried to push Americans out of unhealthy and expensive bad habits, including smoking, littering, drunk driving and failing to wear seat belts. All involved some combination of education, cultural change, legal penalties...
...there are plenty who argue that the blame--and the answer--must lie squarely with fat people themselves. When Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, attacked junk food in schools two years ago, then Democratic Senator Zell Miller, whose home state of Georgia is the location of Coca-Cola headquarters, scoffed, "Our kids are not obese because of what they are eating in our lunchrooms at school. They are obese, frankly, because they sit around on their duffs watching MTV and playing video games, and to do something about that requires the role of the parents, not the role...
Labor activists staged a “teach-in” targeting Harvard’s ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services...
...Labor Action Movement (SLAM) kicked off its spring “Right to Organize” campaign by delivering a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers’ Mass. Hall office yesterday, demanding that Harvard take a stronger stance on worker unionization and stop all business with the Coca-Cola Company...
...news article, "Swarthmore Protests Coke," incompletely stated Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) spokeswoman Jami M. Snyder's reasons for not commenting on the size of HUDS contracts with Coca-Cola. Snyder said that confidentiality provisions in HUDS contracts with its vendors legally prohibit her from disclosing price information. That fact was not included in the Feb. 24 article...