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...some sodas bad for your conscience as well? Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which raises awareness of workers’ rights and labor issues on campus with its “Right to Organize” project, has turned its attention to the Coca-Cola Corporation and its “horrendous violations...of fundamental human rights,” says SLAM member Adaner Usmani ’08. SLAM wants Harvard to wash its hands of alleged dirty dealings, and has demanded that the university cancel its contracts with the corporation and stop serving Coca...
...many Harvard students, Coca-Cola and Diet Coke have addictive powers rivaling those of that other “coke.” But how many Coke junkies can really tell the difference between the Classic and other cola varieties? SLAM suggests replacing Coke with a smaller brand, but a blind taste-test suggests the switch may not be as smooth and refreshing as organizers hope...
...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...
Meanwhile, food companies are trying to get out in front of the issue. McDonald's did away with supersizing. Coca-Cola no longer advertises on television programs aimed at viewers younger than age 12. In its ads on children's television, Kraft pitches white-meat chicken Lunchables rather than Oreos. Food packaging, from mac-and-cheese to soup and pancake mix, offers tips for more healthful preparation...