Demand to Know! Is the CDC Colluding with Coke?
Organic Consumers Association
A new study suggests that people who frequently drink sugar-sweetened drinks, including soda, increase their risk of death from cardiovascular diseases, and to a lesser extend, cancer.
We think that’s all the more reason it’s time to investigate recent allegations that Coca-Cola is colluding with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to downplay the negative health consequences associated with drinking Coke.
Your tax dollars fund the CDC, a federal agency that bills itself as “the nation’s health protection agency, working 24/7 to protect America from health and safety threats.”
But emails between the CDC and Coca-Cola executives suggest that the CDC may care more about Coke's profits than your health.
According to a study published in The Milbank Quarterly, emails reveal that Coke executives used their cozy relationship with CDC officials to "gain and expand access, to lobby and to shift attention and blame away from sugar-sweetened beverages."
The study based its findings on emails and documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK), under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
You probably don’t drink Coke or other effects of sugary soft drinks, which scientists link to type 2 diabetes and heart disease, among other health problems. Still, shouldn’t America’s “health” authorities protect public health? Not the profits of big corporations and their health-harming products?
Thank you!
Julie, for the OCA team.
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