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What you are about to read you won¶t find on any official Coca-Cola history site because the
corporation would rather keep these facts buried and forgotten about.

The soda giant Coca-Cola has been a favorite drink for millions of people all over the world
for the last 100+ years. Through out the years the company has tried everything under the sun
to sell their products to whomever they could which has brought a lot of controversy on to
them.

In the past 100 years the company has been in trouble with racism, child labor, water
depletion and much more. I was truly speechless after some of the facts I heard about and you
might be to. So if you got an interest in Coca-Cola then this might be for you!
Inventor Of Coca Cola

As many people know, Coca-Cola was established in May 1886 by doctor/pharmacist John
Pemerton as a nerve tonic. What you probably didn¶t know was that Dr. Pemerton was
considered a junkie who was addicted to morphine big time. John died only 2 and half years
after establishing the soft drink and trademark.
Cocaine in Coca Cola

Now it¶s no big surprise to most people that Coca-Cola¶s main addictive ingredient was
cocaine. About 60mg of the drug was used in each serving of Coke until 1903 when they
company claimed to have removed the ingredient. Funny thing about it is Coca-Cola still uses
and imports coca leaves which are pretty much the main ingredient in the production of
cocaine. Also some officials for Coke claimed that the use of cocaine in the soft drink was
always a rumor.
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Up till the early to late fifties Coca-Cola was believed to have healing properties and with
that some pretty unique slogans started to appear on the products. Some you might have
heard, others might be totally new to you.

1886 ³Coca-Cola Delicious, Refreshing, Exhilarating´ No doubt it was exhilarating when

they were using cocaine as an additive.

1900 ³For Headache & Exhaustion, Drink Coca-Cola´ Again I don¶t know what cocaine
would do for a headache but there¶s no doubt the drug takes away exhaustion.

1905 ³Coca-Cola Revives and Sustains´

Coca-Cola & the Nazi¶s

Now as we all know Coca-Cola is an American made soda drink so when I was researching
Nazi history for another article, I was totally surprised in what I found. In 1936, Coca-cola
sponsored the Berlin Olympics also known as the ³Nazi Olympics´. While Britain was at war
with Germany the company continued to do business behind enemy lines and advertised
beside the Nazi Regime. As America enter the Second World War, German Coca-Cola
bottling plants could no longer get the sugar/syrup to make the drink so they invented another
drink for the Nazi public called ³Fanta´.

Coca-Cola and the Civil Rights Movement

Now again when I came across this fact it blew me away. A day before Martin Luther King
was assassinated he held a speech asking the people to boycott Coca-Cola and stop buying
their products because of the way the black workers were being treated. Supposedly white
workers where getting paid a much higher wage for little work where as the African
Americans where expected to do long hours and back breaking work for little pay and no
chance of advancement within the ranks of the company.

Human Rights Violations and Murder in Colombia

1n the early 2000¶s, Colombia Coca-Cola bottle workers that were with the union started
receiving death threats to leave the union, and if they didnµt comply then they would be
killed. Shortly after the message workers started turning up dead.

In 2004, a New York City councilor took a fact finding delegation to Colombia. Once there
the councilor found that the Coca-Cola workers were the victims of at least 179 major human
rights violations and 9 murders.

Then in Jan 2007 a group known as the ³Black Eagles´ went on TV to tell the Colombian
public if union workers and other didn¶t stop basically complaining about Coca-Cola¶s work
ethics then they would be killed.

Coca-Cola was being blamed for not providing a safe work place and for not taking
responsibility for their actions which caused or allowed murders on their properties. Some
Colombia officials go on to say or imply Coca-Cola is in someway responsible for these
murders of union workers or allowed them to happen which they totally deny.

Biggest Racial Discrimination Payout

In only seems fair after all the stories about racial discrimination that finally in 2000 after
investigations into the allegations the federal government found Coca-Cola guilty of the
charges and ordered them to pay the biggest racial discrimination payout in history. Coca-
Cola had to pay various victims restitution which added up to nearly $200 million. If you ask
me that¶s nothing compared to what they should pay for the decades of abuse against their
workers.

Coca-Cola & Coca Leaves

Although Coca-Cola is suppose to contain no trace of cocaine like officials say, one of the
main ingredients is the coca leave which is the main key to making cocaine. It¶s a known fact
that 8 tons of coca leaves are imported from South America each year by Coca-Cola and if
any other regular citizen brought any of this into the states then chances are they would be
arrested for drug trafficking.
Coca-Cola¶s War on Water

I have read some wild stuff about this company but this one I just couldnµt believe.

Years back Coca-Cola launched what some people call a ³War´ against water called ³Just say
no to H2O´. What this basically consisted of was the Coca-Cola Company offered its various
suppliers like restaurants and so on incentives to push their products on customers when they
ordered the free tap water. People eventually found a link on the internet and started sharing
it which soon caused the ³War´ to end.
Coca-Cola & Water Depletion in India

Finally, this one had to be the biggest surprise to me. It takes 2 liters of water to make just 1
liter of Coke. In 2004, farmers in India held protests because Coca-Cola bottling plants where
basically bleeding the water wells dry. It got so bad that Coke had to start shipping in water
to many off its plants in 3rd world countries.

Over 290 billion liters of water are used every year by Coca-Cola around the globe and shows
no signs of slowing down. As people in 3rd world countries continue to die because of a lack
of clean water, Coca-Cola¶s pockets just keep getting bigger and bigger at the expensive of
innocent people.