Thursday, June 24, 2010

Coca-Cola the Toxic Truth



In 1993 American company Coca Cola moves into a poor settlement in India. The plant was the largest in India and the reason for building here?  Two huge water reservoirs their prospectors saw on satellite.  The people of this very poor settlement are excited about the jobs but very quickly they notice their own water reserves going dry.  What water they do manage to draw from the land makes them sick and burns their skin.  Tests show the water is poisoned with cadmium and lead - sludge runoff from the plant.  The plant is shut down and until this day Coca refuses to compensate the people it has devastated








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