Love pic of the Mexican army patrolling the reservoir.
The grapes of wrath grow heavy for the vintage
“Let ‘em drink coke.”
Says some CEO goon at his palatial summer compound where his Mexican-American servants bring he and his guests after-dinner fine liqueurs and fine Mayan cacao.
The tinder has been piled waaaaay too high for waaaaay too long now.
Unfortunately those drinks aren’t only for Americans. Mexico has the highest per capita consumption of soft drinks in the world and companies like Coca Cola exert an enormous influence on the state and civil society to keep it that way. The crisis is even worse among low-income and Indigenous Mexicans; in Chiapas (home of the Zapatistas) the average person drinks 2.2 litres of coke a day.
So fucking gross.
We just relentlessly market our poison, that comes in highly crafted, invitingly-designed cans, to the whole world.
Take away the ubiquitous cam design and advertisements and who in their right mind would ever drink a 12oz can of carbonated brown water that has 10 teaspoons of sugar in it after knowing what’s in it, or that it could rot the paint off of a car?
Sad as fuck that we’ve indoctrinated so many with our corporate garbage and junk food.
Popular :reddit-logo: post I used to see:
“TIL Coca-Cola is good by being the first company in developing countries to build purified water infrastructure.”
Which conveniently leaves out the fact that they then sell it, and people are forced to buy their sugar water because western companies polluted the water supply already.
