This is the Dark Side of the Soda Industry

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

From the two groups’ point of view, they’ve both always opposed restrictions on SNAP simply because tackling obesity can be done in better ways, adding that accepting the soda industry’s donations doesn’t compromise or contradict their plans and goals.

#10 – Don’t Take Doctors and Dentists’
Advice for Granted

The Center for Science in the Public Interest revealed that the same organizations that are supposed to be telling people to drink less soda and more water are accepting money from soda companies as well.

Groups representing dietitians, dentists, and doctors were given and eventually accepted “soda money” and this decreases their ability to provide people with impartial advice. The soft-drink companies are protecting both their profits and images through strategic philanthropy.

However, soda companies responded that their intention is not to silence possible critics, but are rather motivated by goodwill. Yet, in 2009, the American Academy of Family Physicians decided to establish a website about healthy diets. Coca-cola paid $600,000 to help create the website.

It isn’t easy to provide information that opposes your sponsor’s benefits, is it!