Coca-Cola Shareholders Reject Proposal to Stop Selling Products in Pro-Life States

Life News ^ | May 1, 2023 | Steven Ertelt

[ansel12]

Staying out of it is the best defense for a corporation, it is relatively easy to stay silent against the push to go woke, but it is a blood bath once they sign up for it, from then on whatever they do will incur huge market costs.

Bud Light is seeing this, now whatever choices they make they are dealing with a huge and passionately angry mass that is activated against that choice.

Rather than face what the left does when you try to put the genie back in the bottle, it is better to just stonewall them at the very beginning and let their efforts and energy die down, the long-term damage will be less.

[cymbeline]

Any corporation that gets into politics deserves disrespect and purchasing avoidance. That applies to conservative as well as liberal politics.

[repentant_pundit]

A state that's pro-health might welcome the exit of coke from their state. At least the sugary kind of coke, which contributes to obesity, diabetes etc.

[edwinland]

Some Disney shareholders should try the same approach. I would buy some shares to support them ;)

[irishjuggler]

Over the long-term, does not Coca-Cola (like every other consumer products) benefit from more births rather than less? Every baby not aborted will be sitting in a McDonald’s a decade from now guzzling a Sprite.

[wally_bert]

I think of Rum and Coca Cola.

I don’t drink either beverage.

[MtnClimber]

Why not vote on mandatory late term abortions for Coca Cola shareholders and executives? I bet that many would vote for that without even thinking.

[arthurus]

If Coca Cola were to accede to those demands it would be bankrupt shortly. You cannot cut off a majority of your customer base suddenly and survive as a business.

[Fledermaus]

What’s with the mass corporate suicide?

[arthurus]

I hope they do and one of those companies accedes and pulls its products from those states and counties that are insufficiently woke. The rapid descent into bankruptcy will be an obvious lesson for others contemplating the move and I am sure such boycotting of customers is being considered in many woke boardrooms.

[arthurus]

Same here. I quit partaking of sweet drinks 23 years ago.

[zeugma]

too bad they didn’t do this.

[TalBlack]

This story shows the proportion of the real core loons 13%. Sounds about right.

[mumblypeg]

Risk management? As in, the “risk” that future coca-cola drinkers might not be ripped limb from limb?

[ro_dreaming]

Who’s the 13% that voted FOR this?

They should be removed from the board for corporate financial malfeasance.

[Albion Wilde]

This calls for a doubling down on boycotting all their products. Here are the brands U.S. consumers may be most familiar with:

Bacardi mixers
Barq's
Capri Sun
Coca-Cola, Coke variations
DANNON
Dasani – Bottled water, several variations
Dunkin' Donuts ready-to-drink coffee beverages
Fanta, several variations
Five Alive
Fresca
Fruitopia Tea
Full Throttle energy and coffee drinks
Fuze, Fuzetea
Glacéau – vitamin water, smart water
Gold Peak Tea
Hi-C, Hi-C Tea
Hires
Honest Tea
Minute Maid
Mr Pibb
Nestea
Odwalla – juice drinks and natural health beverages
Powerade – sports drink
Refresh Tea
Schweppes (Under license)
Seagram's
Simply Apple, Simply Lemonade, Simply Limeade, Simply Orange juices
Smart Water
Sport Cola
Sprite, many varieties
Surge