Coca-Cola Dragged into Brazilian Tribe's Land Conflict

[Judi Lynn]

Source: International Business Times

Coca-Cola Dragged into Brazilian Tribe's Land Conflict
By Sanskrity Sinha | December 17, 2013 07:15 AM GMT

The Guarani tribes of Jata Yvary in Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul state have accused the Coca-Cola Company of buying sugar from a company that has grabbed the tribe's ancestral land. Coca-Cola sources sugar from Bunge, which buys sugar cane from five farms located on the tribal lands.

"Coca-Cola must stop buying sugar from Bunge. While these companies profit, we are forced to endure hunger, misery, and killings," a Guarani spokesperson told UK-based tribal rights group, Survival International.

A recent Oxfam report states that at least four million hectares of land have been acquired for sugar production in 100 large-scale land deals since 2000 in Brazil.

"These acquisitions have been linked to human rights violations, loss of livelihoods, and hunger for small-scale food producers and their families," Oxfam said in the report, adding that major food and beverage companies should "take steps to ensure that land rights violations and conflicts are not part of their supply chains".


















Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/coca-cola-dragged-into-brazilian-tribes-land-conflict-1429292

[loudsue]

1. Like coke cares?

Their market share is so extensive globally that it would likely make no notice to them if we boycotted them.

[BlueToTheBone]

2. Yet another reason I don't drink that stuff. n/t

[Dr Hobbitstein]

3. Coca Cola buys sugar?

I thought they used HFCS, which is cheap, plentiful, and subsidized by the US Govt.

[Incitatus]

8. Yes, for use in its products in other countries.

Sugar costs more in the US than any other country in the world because of subsidies and import tariffs. So we get the crap with corn syrup.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

9. Derp!

I forgot all about the wonders that is Mexican Coke... My mistake.

[L0oniX]

4. Coca-Cola has union organizers / people killed.

http://colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm

[Incitatus]

10. holy shit

There's a lot about that company I didn't know, but I can't say I'm too surprised. http://killercoke.org/

[Indi Guy]

5. Coke is notorious for crapping on indigenous people.

The multi-national goes into native lands, takes over their water supplies, bottles the water & sells it -- leaving the inhabitants destitute & at their mercy.

The power of advertising is amazing -- that it can put lipstick on this giant pig and people have no idea what's really going on.

[SCVDem]

6. I hear Cuba has a lot of sugar. nm

[TheSarcastinator]

7. Poor Coa-Coola, "dragged' into oppressing tribal peoples!

They didn't want to take the land and devastate the natives and their culture, they were "dragged" into it! Forced, I tell ya!