Africa and CocaCola Index of happiness?
Amber , Eugene: Jul 6 2008
Made Popular Jul 6 2008
AFRICANS buy 36 billion bottles of Coke a year. Because the price is set so low—around 20-30 American cents, less than the price of the average newspaper—and because sales are so minutely analysed by Coca-Cola, the Coke bottle may be one of the...
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Madhuri Katti
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Madhuri Katti parentingcanbefun-mk.. Jul 6 2008
Kolkata, India
Do the ads in Africa say,’Hungry? Have a Coke’ or ’Malnourished? Underweight? go for Coke’?
Sad. What Africa needs is aid, development, good political leaders, good health facilities, and most importantly healthy food...and not Coke...
Coca-cola will even make dead people sip a coke...
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Jaiyant Cavale
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Jaiyant Cavale Jul 6 2008
Bangalore, India
The symbol of mindless capitalization is what Coca Cola is all about. The water that is used for manufacturing could be channelized to those Africans who lack drinking water and walk miles everyday to get water home. Exploiting the poverty ridden Africans and luring them to buy Coke is not only unethical but distasteful. What is even more depraved is to judge a country’s economy based on the coke sales from that particular country.

You said it so right. It is not even funny when you say Coca Cola can make dead people sip a coke.... That is how the major companies work.
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