{"id":1794739,"date":"2023-01-04T09:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794739"},"modified":"2023-01-04T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T14:52:03","slug":"coca-cola-accused-of-paying-naacp-to-call-soda-taxes-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coca-cola-accused-of-paying-naacp-to-call-soda-taxes-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola Charged with Paying NAACP Soda Taxes Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoca-cola-accused-of-paying-naacp-to-call-soda-taxes-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794739&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/original_cocacola.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p> Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMedicine Care, published a thread on Twitter Monday in which he addressed the problems with soda companies&#8217; control over food regulation. Means stated that his Twitter Blue access had been blocked and that his account was being reviewed. This may have been due to Coca-Cola becoming a major advertiser for Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding,&#8221; Means claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I say Coke&#8217;s policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist. Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation &#8211; both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association This picked up in 2011-2013 &#8211; when the Farm Bill and soda taxes were under consideration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Means includes a screenshot taken from a\u00a0<span>The Center for Science in the Public Interest report (CSPI), as published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nutritioninsight.com\/news\/cspi-report-criticizes-big-soda-philanthropy.html\">Nutrition Insight<\/a> In March 2013.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>Both the NAACP &#038; the Hispanic Federation &#8220;received grants from Coca-Cola, with the national NAACP receiving at least $2.1 million from the soda giant since 1986, including $100,000 as recently as December. The Hispanic Federation also lists Coke as a donor, and in February 2012 its president, Lillian Rodriguez Lopez, left the nonprofit group to become director of Latin affairs at the company,&#8221; Nutrition Insight wrote.<\/p>\n<p>CSPI\u2019s report noted that Coca-Cola gave the American Academy of Family Physicians a $600,000 grant in 2009 for a new website, and gave a $1 million grant in 2003 to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, which was &#8220;seemingly enough to get the president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry to suddenly hedge the group&#8217;s position on the extent to which soda causes cavities,&#8221; Nutrition Insight reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, the American Beverage Association, and Kraft Foods, maker of such sugar drinks as Kool Aid and Capri Sun, are also big donors to two major anti-hunger groups, the Food Research and Action Center and Feeding America,&#8221; The report was updated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The conversations inside these rooms was depressingly transactional: &#8216;We (Coke) will give you money. You need to paint opponents of us as racist.&#8217; The effort was successful, and the message was carried in thousands of articles between 2011-2013,&#8221; Means continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coke&#8217;s position was clear: soda is one of the cheapest ways to get calories &#8211; a flagrantly inaccurate statement when factoring in the health consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the high obesity rates in the communities they serve, organizations with a long track record of funding from the beverage industry are still in great shape. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/13\/nyregion\/behind-soda-industrys-win-a-phalanx-of-sponsored-minority-groups.html\">fighting measures like New York City\u2019s stalled soda ban<\/a>,&#8221; Means added, noting a 2013 article in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the FDA funneled money into top universities and think tanks to fund studies that showed soda taxes were harmful to the poor, I was there. They also funded studies showing that drinking soda DOES NOT cause obesity.&#8221; Means claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These studies did not include the undisputed fact that sugary drinks are the leading cause of diabetes and obesity.<br \/>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Means cited in a recent report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/29\/health\/diabetes-young-people\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>A new study published in Diabetes Care by the American Diabetes Association last month shows that type 2 diabetes among people younger than 20 years old could skyrocket to 675 percent by 2060, if current rents in the US are maintained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Soda companies are deeply embedded in the USDA &#8211; so much so that the agency carries discredited talking points like &#8216;there are no bad food, only bad diets.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This ignores fact that sugar is highly addictive and has negative nutritional value,&#8221; Means continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the end: racial tensions flared, soda spending was kept in SNAP funding, and many of the soda taxes were defeated&#8230; Of course, this has been a disaster for low-income communities. Addictive, deadly sugary drinks should never be included in a government nutrition program.\u00a0People saying that restricting soda from SNAP funding is &#8216;paternalistic&#8217; or an &#8216;assault on personal choice&#8217; are unwittingly doing the work of the soda companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t have a free market if that market is rigged,&#8221; Concluded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Means would then inform his followers that his account was under review and have his check suspended. &#8220;This is not the free speech ethos [Elon Musk], childhood obesity and diabetes is urgent issue. It is a simple question. Has Coca-Cola ever had a direct line to Twitter to suspend critics. Do they still?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Post Millennial reached out to Coca-Cola in order for comments.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMedicine Care, published a thread on Twitter Monday in which he addressed the problems with soda companies&#8217; control over food regulation. Means stated that his Twitter Blue access had been blocked and that his account was being reviewed. 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