Posted on 12/30/2005 10:49:58 AM PST by BurbankKarl
The University of Michigan suspended sales of Coca-Cola products on its three campuses over allegations that the company permits human rights and environmental abuses abroad.
The suspension, which begins Jan. 1, will affect vending machines, residence halls, cafeterias and campus restaurants. Coke's contracts with the university are worth about $1.4 million.
The university and the company said they will continue to negotiate.
"The University of Michigan is an important school, and I respect the way they worked with us on this issue," said Kari Bjorhus, a spokeswoman for The Coca-Cola Co., told the Detroit News. "We are continuing to try hard to work with the university to address concerns and assure them about our business practices."
Michigan's decision was prompted by a complaint last year from Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality. The student group accused Coke of draining local groundwater in India and conspiring with paramilitary groups in Colombia to harass and harm union members.
The company has repeatedly denied the allegations, which have prompted other schools to suspend sales.
The university, which has more than 50,000 students, decided not to renew its contracts when Coke said it was unable to meet a Dec. 31 deadline to cooperate in an investigation of circumstances in Colombia. The university and several other colleges had offered to fund the investigation.
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Whatever happened to RC Cola??
Things go better with Coke; these guys just don't get it.
Yep, it's pop. On another note, they don't seem to have a problem charging something like $3.75 for a coke at the football games. Water is $3. If you ask me, that is a human right violation. I'm hoping for a revolt from season ticket holders after such a dismal season. Never happen though.
I went to graduate school at this place! I must have been out of my mind! What a leftist cabal.
Good idea.
I agree 100%...The only carbonated drinks I will drink are Coca-Cola and Fresca. If stranded in a desert, I think I'd start recycling my own urine before indulging in Pepsi...
Marlboro red smokers are generally the same way with our cigarettes too...
Hope you dn't work for Coca Cola then. Must be a looney tunes university when they let dipsticks run the business end of it!!
This type of attack is old news.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/fanta.asp
FR like all things go better with Coke!
Cheers,
UGH! Who drinks that garbage beside nostaligic Detroiters?!
Kind of grew on me. But it took me at least a semester to figure out it's supposed to be ginger ale.
Much better than that super sweet Pepsi with it's commie executives. I cringe when my hub purchases a bottle of left leaning drink. Blech. I cannot remember which Pepsi exec it was, but ewww.
Can't believe anyone on FR would drink that stuff on principle.
"Got a Little Captain in You?"
Way to go Cornhuskers ...and Michigan couldn't even get invited to anything other than a "garbage" bowl.
Neither then could the Cornhuskers. (And what IS a "cornhusker"?)
Not kidding. One beautiful little blond girl I had met took a bottle of rum we had bought and swallowed about 1/4 quarter of it before I realized what she was doing. All tact was dropped after that. Coke would have just gotten in the way.
Regular Pepsi tastes much sweeter than regular Coke to me.
Before I switched to diet, I really didn't like Pepsi. Now that I drink diet, I can drink either, but actually prefer diet Pepsi.
However, Captain and Coke is considerably better than Captain and Pepsi.
Captain and Sprite is also very good. Captain and Sierra Mist is awful.
I haven't had a Pepsi, or allowed it my home since they hired Comrade Geraldine Ferraro to do an ad for them.
Sounds like an opportunity for some enterprising students.
I remember in college some kids tried to get the cafeteria to serve "organic" food. The school refused, so two enterprising new age types started making and selling their own hummus, tofu and sprout sandwiches. They were pretty good. The students brought them in just before lunch in their backpacks, and always sold out.
I think they probably made quite a bit of money.
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