Posted on 07/18/2017 7:52:10 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
...Why two black pastors are suing Coca-Cola
William Lamar, the senior pastor at D.C.s historic Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, is tired of presiding over funerals for parishioners who died of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
So on Thursday, he and another prominent African American pastor filed suit against Coca-Cola and the American Beverage Association, claiming soda manufacturers knowingly deceived customers about the health risks of sugar-sweetened beverages at enormous cost to their communities.
The complaint, filed in D.C. Superior Court Thursday on behalf of the pastors and the Praxis Project, a public health group, alleges that Coke and the ABA ran an intentional campaign to confuse consumers about the causes of obesity.
Lamar and Delman Coates, the pastor at Marylands Mount Ennon Baptist Church, claim soda marketing has made it more difficult for them to protect the health of their largely black, D.C.-based parishioners.
Their case is similar to another suit that was filed, and later withdrawn, by the same legal team in California last January.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Another corporate shakedown. Al Sharpton would be so proud.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sugar+the+bitter+truth&view=detail&mid=0CFD1D70540C9A1AA33C0CFD1D70540C9A1AA33C&FORM=VIRE
>>>Fructose is poison.<<
I switched to beer years ago. Hops, grains and water: Beer is Good Food!
My mom also limited us drinking soda. So some of this comes back to parenting, doesn’t it? Don’t let your kids gorge on junk food and sweet sodas. Feed your kids healthy food, see that they get exercise, etc. etc.
It’s crazy to think of what issues someone will file a lawsuit over. A lawsuit over sugary drinks?? A preacher proclaiming they are losing too many to health problems associated with eating and drinking too much of the wrong thing?? Somehow that becomes a legal problem to be hashed out in court????
translation: Coca-Cola and Pepsi has LOTS o’ MONEY!
We wants to get ourselves summa dat MONEY!
come on suing Coca-Cola because you you’re fat ... first you say you have no control and 2nd you’re honestly going to tell me that the only damn thing reason you’re fat is cuz you drank nothing but Coke’s
There’s a 150 calories in a 12 oz Coke
In the average man needs to eat 2500 calories to maintain, not gain just to maintain their weight that 200 oz of Coke per day that 17 12oz coke a day....
Don’t give me that crap that your fat because it’s cokes fault you eating a hell of a lot of other things
Why does the entire world have to act as mother to black people..?
let’s face it:
slavery is here and the slaves are US.
You’re forgetting to factor in the Snickers bars.
People choose what they eat. Pray tell where is the horror if what they are free to eat things that aren’t good for them? Where is the dignity for them if their choices are made more expensive?
Make no mistake about it: government loves excuses to tax. Dogooding is among the best. Only the clueless will extend them an excuse, a pretext, and think that they are doing right.
I think we taxpayers should sue the Democrat party for creating a Stupid class.
Reparations coming? So more of the folks can go around blaming their self-inflicted failures on Whitey?
Thank the Corn Lobby for Fructose and Ethanol.
If you can do the rhyme, you can accuse others of crimes!
Because so many black people insist on remaining child-like all the days of their lives.
Take junk food off of the food stamp list then
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