Coca Cola

Disclaimer and acknowledgment:
Coke and Coca cola and the fishy shapes and swirls are registered trademarks of the Coca Cola Company of Atlanta Georgia and are used herein to designate a non- generic cola product as everybody knows and recognizes. I apologize for not having a copyright key in my computer. Round Up is the trademark name of a product of Monsanto. ( Coincidence that these seem to be southern companies? Do you believe in coincidence?)

In a recent conversation with an employee of Swire Pacific Holdings ( the local company that distributes Coke products, I was told a rather amazing story concerning greed and lies.
It seems a local highly placed executive became aware of questions concerning aspartame, (also known by various other names) and corn syrup, when used as a food sweetener, in the diet over extended periods of time. He learned that there are serious health concerns over these additives, especially with children who are the largest consumers of soda pop. He looked at statistics of obesity in children and young adults, of the chronic increase in diabetes within the population and other increasing health risks.
His growing concern led him on a quest for forbidden information and took him on a long and many convoluted path.
His research led him to aspartame, (the sugar substitute for most all diet drinks) a molecular left handed sugar, a form of which is artificially produced when a sugar syrup is heated to near boiling, causing a large percentage to realign in a left-handed spiral which is extremely sweet tasting , (home fruit canners have done the real thing for years) yet it is not converted to fat by the body. In the low cost process favored by Coke this product is produced in a form that the body converts directly into fat and is not metabolized to starch as normal sugars would be. It may be the agent responsible for causing certain cancers and other illness's.
He also found that corn syrup (the low cost sugar substitute for non-diet drinks) is produced almost entirely from genetically modified corn grown in this country (actually only in this country as other countries will not let the seed corn be sold there and consider it to be a criminal act against humanity to grow it.) Now what is so bad about G.M. corn? he asked himself? After further research he found a very compelling reason for these concerns.
It seems that the seed producing companies (can you say Monsanto?) in their desire to maximize profits above all else, genetically modified seed corn to be resistant to their own product "RounduP". This way the farmer (large corporate type) could weed his crops without killing them. Seems like a good idea doesn't it? Saves time and money!
The problem comes in where this company modified a gene and inserted it into the corn. As they soon came to find out the modification did not stay in the corn and when ingested by animals eating the corn products both human and animal (there were years of product trials and animal autopsies) became active and lives in the digestive tract in a form that (again) converts sugars and starches into non-soluble fats. To further the crime this modification is stored in the same fat that it causes and may never be excreted! (can you say complicity?)
This fellow was by now convinced that the soft drink industry as a whole was intentionally poisoning our country and that as a responsible executive and representative of his organization he set about to educate Coke as to what was going on!
Guess what? He was fired and blacklisted and is working today as a carpenter.
Where did I get the story from? His brother who today works as a delivery man, keeping quiet and low profile as he is just about to retire. Why did he talk to me? Because I displayed previous knowledge when I asked him if they were going to get rid of G.M. corn syrup and go back to sugar.
Additional information, did you know of studies that have been done, that while not endorsing large quantities of sugar in your diet, trend to show a significant weight reduction in people who switched from the so called diet drinks.
Dr. Pepper (disclaimer) has a NEW product, Classic Dr. Pepper with real sugar!
Maybe you thought Pepsi (disclaimer) was better?

The Soda Pop industry as a whole and the producers of G.M. seed, are guilty of knowingly promoting a dangerous product (aspartame). I am just waiting for the lawsuits to start!

These companies have in their quest for the almighty dollar and tight bottom line have knowingly damaged America ( How can I say knowingly? there are several whistle blowers still alive out there who do have the full story. I used to scoff also at stories of corruption and murder until I was involved in a couple of big lawsuits and saw what goes on!) believe it or not.