|
One of my picky notes about Coke's supposed practices:
A lot of their bottling operations are independently owned and operated, and are only licensed by Coca-Cola, so not buying Coke products in the US isn't really going to have an impact on the profit margins of bottling operations in Colombia or India.
Like Charlatan said--these corporations are in the business of making money. We can't expect any more from them than that. So we have to decide. I don't shop at Wal-Mart, I don't use Round-Up. Those are my two biggies (Wal-Mart and Monsanto). We all make our choices, and if we tried to limit ourselves to only ethical producers, we would be 1) limiting our choices as consumers severely, and 2) paying through the nose for it. I'm not saying we shouldn't try, as consumers, to exercise the power of our wallets, but we have to realize that there are some situations where it's just not practical, usually for economic reasons.
__________________
If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
|