Silliness

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Only at this school would the "Kick Coke off Campus" campaign be countered by a "Keep Coke on Campus" campaign (run by economics students, I'm sure). And definitely only at this school would the "Keep Coke on Campus" campaign be purchasing ad space on Facebook that states, "100% Self-Funded - Soda debate is not where your student activity fees should should be going to. That's why Keep Coke on Campus is 100% funded by third party sources." You would think that a.) they would have something more important to say like, oh, I don't know, an argument, for example; and b.) you would think that they wouldn't make their "sources" of funding so painfully obvious. Take a guess... I'll bet that you guess correctly.

That being said, I am marginally in favor of their side, but only under some assumptions of whose validity I am uncertain.

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john said:

What about Pepsi? -- Can I have a Pepsi instead of Coke?

adamjanderson said:

According to these people yes... which is very ironic, because in terms of human rights in 3rd world countries (the main argument of the anti-Coke people), Pepsi is nearly as bad as Coca-Cola. I think there are some inescapable externalities to global soda production (e.g. water piracy, etc.). So the campaign is doomed to failure unless they move to eliminate all soda. This is unfortunately not feasible because, well, students require a cheap, reliable, and versatile source of caffeine, and they like soda.

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