Coca-Colas Dark Secrets in Latin America...
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Companies will ABSOLUTELY do this kind of thing anywhere they think they can get away with it.
We need videos on Monsanto, Nestle, Unilever, hell even Pfitzer and Merck. Knowing is half the battle.
Monsanto no longer exists. They were bought out by Bayer.
Oh yeah Bayer have a less than nice history during ww2. @TheItalianTrash
Don't forget about IBM.
Magnates media covers these
Monsanto are scummy because they sue farmers for patent infringement. Their crimes are nothing compared to what coke has done.
Oh boy, I can't wait to find out how Nestlè are not the only corporation doing evil things
Incorporation is the biggest lie sold today. Nestlè didn't do anything; the people making these decisions have names. And addresses...
@@NextEevolution I wonder if Nestle has ever virtue signaled about a social issue on social media and how many people Dave Hearts to a not knowing what Nestle has done
Makes me wonder what Pepsi has done...
Ever heard of Chiquita? I'm in my 30's and we definitely learned about their nonsense at my high school (public, rural). The fact that there's a clothing brand called Banana Republic is kinda unsettling when you know where that term came from
@@ajchapeliere oh yeah they definitely deserve a video of their own for their shit
It’s crazy how much content these guys are able to pump out. SIMON LET THOSE WRITERS OUT FOR SOME SUN!
honestly i'm just surprised he's never lost his voice
*HOW DARE YOU* , of course mr whistler researches and writes ALL of his content himself!
Nope he just keeps them alive on Coca Cola
@@bufordbaker8688 he actually has a few times. Mostly on some of the shows he just hosted.
Cocaine, lots and lots of cocaine. Allegedly...
"Gradually reduce child labor." Good lord, Coca-Cola. Try again, and try harder. How about "ABSOLUTELY NO CHILD LABOR."
Heck yeah!
Drink water 💧
@@jerryrocketandthegogogirls3517 child labor is bad
@@jerryrocketandthegogogirls3517 child labor is a bad thing actually
In poorer cultures they need to work. Maybe the culture which keeps em poor should take a lot of the blame. And the US has done some pretty devastating things to their cultures over the past 200 years
If a company says it's NOT doing something immoral or in fact illegal, you can almost bet your ass they are guilty as hell.
Corporations doing shit like this is why I don't like them virtue signaling on social media pretending to care about social issues
Just lying their asses off, that's for sure
Legally they are people too. How is that fair to the average person with health issues and a life span.
I like to tell people to look at the Middle Eastern branches of large corporations like Coke and Nike during Pride Month, and you will see who is serious and who is pandering to a market. Fun fact, they are all pandering to a market.
Especially since Coca-Cola was having employees take instruction/guidance on "How to be less white".
:|
everything can be commodified even critique of capitlaism.
Everytime he said, "Coke said they would___" It reminded me of Thank You For Smoking
I always tripped out how Vicente Fox was head of Coca Cola in Mexico to the President of Mexico
Of course, no corruption was involved whatsoever.
Ain't no war but a class war, eh?
Make one on Nestlé. I think it will top this one. Forgot to mention Ferrero! As well as almost any clothing brand producing in "China" which in fact are done in north korea with child labour
I'm pretty sure they've already covered Nestle on one of their channels already. If not, the sheer number of people mentioning them in the comments shows how extensive public awareness is on the Nestle issue. They should really focus on digging up the dirt on other corporations that aren't talked about as often; such as MARS, Unilever, Compass Group, Dow Chemical, Bayer, Kraft-Heinz, CVS, UnitedHealth, Alphabet, Sony, LG, GE, &c.
There are a lot of corporate shenanigans that go unreported because the same handful of companies keep getting called out for things they were busted for years or decades ago.
They covered the Nestlé baby formula deaths in an earlier video on this channel
@@dhawthorne1634 I don't know about the others, but United Health was in the spotlight recently. Something about the CEO being denied his bullet free air or something like that, really sad that it happened ☺
Simon, if you are referring to the Battle of Blair Mountain, then I think it is important to mention that the US Army was not the primary actor in the conflict. As far as I understand, the coal companies hired Pinkerton Detectives to guard their minds, and those detectives were armed by the United States military. They received machine guns, rifles, and even mustard gas to use against the striking workers. I think it's an important distinction, because it demonstrates just how far a government will go to appease the corporate class, while simultaneously claiming plausible deniability because it was not "directly involved". Regardless, anti-union strategies suck, and I am looking forward to your next video!
You are correct it was the Pinkertons. My great grandfather was one of the miners there, and he fought back with a Winchester lever action rifle.
No, commie unions suck and stifle innovation.
@@BobB-w4q Since learning about the Pinkertons on Read Dead redemption 2 I have learned so much about them. Its wild how I never have until the game and since it came out I've learned a lot.
Looking into it the governor called in the National Guard who teamed up with the private detectives and the federal government sent in active duty troops against the miners in additional to the president threatening the miners. When the active duty troops arrived the miners disperse.
Pinkerton, America's original Blackwater.
The chance for this episode to have been sponsored by Pepsi would be WILD.
I would not even be mad at them. Now I want Coca Cola to sponsor one on Pepsi and see what we get.
Isn't Pepsi affiliated with Nestlé tho?
I'm not sure about that one, but I did recently hear that Coca-Cola and Pepsi are owned by the same parent company. I'll do some research and get back to you on whether that's true.
+Nope, it apparently isn't. Coca-Cola's parent company is Berkshire Hathaway, which owns a lot of other big companies. However, Pepsi is not one of them, because Pepsi has no parent company. Allegedly.
Also, couldn't find any ties between Nestle and Pepsi, but those two along with Coca-Cola are "allegedly" the three largest plastic polluters on the planet.+
Pepsi and coke are both owned by one and the other.... they don't compete
@@billbradley5296They are not owned by the same company nor do they have significant shares in each other, and are definitely in direct competition.
Swaziland has been called Eswatini since 2018
Thanks for the update, just another viewer here, but it's always nice to learn new stuff.
True that but sadly because the name change the child labour problem is still the same if not worse
Nobody cares
@@AnonUser18that’s the story of how the west views Africa all the time and you continue that
@@elihannam2665
Its just called echild elabor now
Critics have accused Coca-Cola of exploiting local water resources in Latin American countries, leading to environmental degradation and water scarcity for local populations. These practices have sparked protests and calls for more sustainable operations.
14:28 Jeeesuuusss Chhrriisssttt, I had diabetes just from hearing that.
Joke on them I drink Diet. (Aspartame Super Dementia intensifies)
good to see this still being covered, Mark Thomas has been trying to tell the world about this for nearly 20 years!
Big fan of Mark Thomas. Belching Out The Devil is a great book and show.
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative video. Great job. Keep it up.
Coke approves of this message. I got an ad for Coke in the middle lol.
That's not fuct up at all! 😒
That was eye opening 😮. I watch your videos a lot, as you know. Thank you! 😊
How could you NOT watch his videos, dudes contending with AI he's got so many channels.
Now do one on Pepsi
Pepsi is the GOAT
Yes please, release the scandals! They've priced Coke out in my area and I'm sick of hearing all of the complaints from bar patrons that Pepsi tastes too sweet.
@@Sevenine88 Quite wrong. There was the 349 Pepsi scandal in the Phillipines that saw mass protests and 5 people dead. The scandal is the reason whe Pepsi floundered in the Phillipines
Both the same company
@@billbradley5296 Do your research before spouting nonsense in the comments.
my mother served as a spiritual advisor to the top Mexican Coca Cola executives- I could always see there was something terribly wrong wrong wrong with them.
I would've been feeding them bullshit if I were her. They won't know until the damage is already done lol. Offend the local people so bad they switch to Pepsi like North American tribes.
2:38 "What's shocking is that in many instances, it is American corporations that are at the centre of the allegations."
How is that shocking? They've made it clear for decades that there's nothing the United States finds scarier than united workers. The only reason the same anti-union violence isn't still rampant in mainland US is because it would be rather difficult for the further-right-wing of the two parties to claim that it represents working class people if physical violence was still condoned against workers trying to achieve gains in working class rights.
Don't get me wrong, the same anti-union mentality is still alive and doing very well for itself in the US, it's just that the violence has evolved into educational and psychological warfare instead.
True
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Well said
Simonthere used a little thing called the sarcasm.
yet another reason why Irn Bru is superior, says a Scot trying to cope with the horror
A proud Irish woman here with a taste for Irn Bru!
I found some in France, I didn't really like it but i'd drink gallons of it before drinking Coca Cola.
16:09 this heavily depends if the water treatment plant follows safety guidelines. Normally If the water isnt desinfectd via chlorine its still slightly chlorinated at the end of treatment to make sure that it stays desinfected inside the canalisation until it reaches the furthest point from the treatment plant. We're talking 0.2-05mg/L of Free Chrlorine here (Canadian & Québec guidelines), its nowhere near enough to be "toxic" to humans and is completely safe for human consumption (its considered safe for consumption up to 4mg/L).
Now when it comes to diy purification and desinfection I prefer not to go too much into the subject as water treatment should really only be done by people educated in the field or who know what they're doing but for people interested P&G has some wonderful ressource on the subject of water purification.
Source: me, I work in the field.
The country changed its name from Swaziland to Eswatini, I’m assuming based on this video that the Coke subsidiary there did not change its name? (Like how lots of international companies with a subsidiary in Myanmar still have “Burma” in their name even decades later)
Video start : 1:07
THANKS. I SURE DON'T GET PAID TO WATCH ADS. HE DOES. 😂
sometimes I wonder about Ronaldo and how his demonstration made coca colas stock fall
Belching Out The Devil by Mark Thomas is a great (and at times suprisingly funny) read on the depth and bredth of Cocacola's misdeeds. I've avoided the product since.
You've said exactly what I came here to say. Big fan of MT.
Another reminder that large corporations care about money a lot more than people
Corporations don’t care about people, only their bottom line. It’s the way the world works. If it bothers you that bad then stop buying their products.
You think that's the way to stop child labor? Just stop buying their products? You sound like a tard.
People tend to see corporations as people, but really they're some kind of weird beast thats eats anything to get bigger, be it people, environment or whatever.
Pretty sure that's what the video is about. Educating people so they can make an informed decision.
I'd like the teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, I'd like to buy the world a Coke and fund world domination.
Oh goodie, they promised to fix it! Definitely no history of companies not fulfilling their duty to protect the people they are impacting…so…I’m sure it’ll be fine… /s isn’t even enough to express my sarcasm levels here.
the republicans have been running on fixing the debt problems in washington DC and the border for 25 years.
Do Chiquita next
im from eSwatini(fromerly Swaziland) and its crazy.
my highschool was near one of the largest sugarcane fields in the country and you would have to drive through it to get to the school.
you could see the kids in the fields during the week and the area is known to get ridiculously hot.
and this was like 10 years ago, I assume the child labour problem has only gotten worse since.
Love it again and again and again.
Hi Simon. I'm making 1 lb of cannabis butter with 28 grams of Brownie Scout right now. Thanks for the video my dude!!!
just making some canna coconut oil with RSO
sat in my friends grow room chilling with the ladies
I'm a certified taste tester
Make it stronger 💪
@RealJonNewton hell yeah, I'm certainly a certified starfish :)
Thanks for sharing.
So... Can we talk about that time that Coca-Cola got away with paying for an assassination and got away with it, because in court their defense was, "It's not your jurisdiction."? 😂
It's really horrible how people are treated buy Private industry in India but they did have forced marriages about 1000 years before England even existed.
The key word here being 'but'. How people are treated today is the problem, not what happened yesterday.
Do Nestle next
love how Simon is 240p on the thumbnail meanwhile cola is a crisp 4k hd
moving those sponsors ALL OVER in the videos... crafty Simon...
That battle in WV is where the moniker redneck comes from! The red scarfs the miners wore
As a Swede, where like every1 is part of a union, this is beyond strange as frikk. The idea of other countries being so against it they do this shit
Unreal
Unionisation is so normal in the Nordics companies will actively encourage their employees to unionise because it will save them both time and money when it comes to negotiations. Easier to negotiate with one entity instead of individual workers. Win win for both sides.
Most of the companies who try to screw workers are international companies who have not done any research about the country they are trying to set up operations in. I think that was part of why Lidl failed in Norway (on top of the grocery cartel pushing them out).
Swaziland is called Eswatini. The name changed about 2 years ago
I worked with a guy who immigrated from brazil and he used to work for Coca-Cola, his boss went to the same resteraunt one night and saw he bought a Pepsi drink; his boss fired him right there during his dinner with his family for not ordering Coca-Cola.
I dont drink much soda anymore, the few times I do I buy soda that is produced by the local breweries. Cheaper and still taste good.
Everyday we crawl closer and closer to making Cyberpunk a reality.
I don't think I've laughed at an into the shadows as hard as I did this one. The spiritual leaders telling the mexicans that coke is magic, awesome.
I think that is finally when my brain just shut off, and I quit listening to the content, and just zoned out to Simon’s accent, and fell asleep. I don’t even think I had the energy to laugh at that. They asked fucking what now?!*🤣
Y’all should cover even more popular companies I think it would be super interesting to see how prolific the human rights abuses are across the board
how much you want to bet Coke will try a DMCA or outright legal action to get this removed. thats why you have to keep the trade mark usages and use the phrase allegedly quite often. cant give them free ammo.
1 million rounds fired, 100 killed. Talk about lousy shots!
I know right !! That was a big waste of ammo !!
I’ll see you all in hell for this, but… “Those are storm trooper numbers! “
I live in El Salvador and have been to the cane fields of Izalco. Working conditions are bad, hours are long (dawn to dusk), and wages are low ($365/mo), but there are no children there.
If corporations,companies and politicians go from discouraging the formarion of unions or people from joining them, all the way to more extreme measures like those mentioned(as well as all sorts of tactics in between) it should be clear that there are a lot off reasons people should unionise
Perhaps someone should check into the Boeing murders.
perhaps someone should check into the Epstein murder
Im from New Zealand ,we get the odd Made in Mexico Coca Cola at supermarkets ,man it tastes way better than our Coca Cola not sure why it tastes so good
I've had many friends work for unions these past decades, many who don't. I've seen which ones are treated more fairly, which ones can easily be terminated, which ones can easily be asked to do things that flat out aren't their job. I'm sure unions have their own corruption, but my goodness, it's very easy to see why corporations don't like organized labor: It puts the workers on even ground instead of keeping them "in their place." 😕😔
I'm just curious; Why do so many videos (on many different channels) have stock photos or clips that do nothing to further the content and usually either look out of place or are just silly? For example: the clip at 6:12 supposedly shows a kidnapped victim but the person is very loosely wrapped in twine and adds zero gravitas to the info being shared at that moment. Honestly, Simon's description is enough so why the theatrics?
Because you avoid getting copy right claimed on photos owned by this or that press agency.
Watch the Documentary "Killer Coke". If you can find it. It used to be available on UA-cam,but for some reason it was removed. Wonder why?
How naive were we to believe that all they wanted to do was 'teach the world to sing, sing in perfect harmony, grow apple trees, and honey bees, and snow white turtle doves' ....
I've seen plenty on Coca Cola, but what about Pepsi or RC? Could you do some videos on them as well? Be curious to see what they have been up to.
This deserves to be shared. I've long banned them from my home.
Perhaps people will start to listen.
I wish San Cristobal was the only place where this happens... sadly, most of mexico has this problem. What's particular about San Cristobal is that the 'Zapatista' culture (EZLN) has been very good at getting media attention and knows very well how to make noise, not keep quiet and challenge the status quo.
It’s Eswatini btw no longer Swaziland
Wow a major company not caring about thing other than their own profits? Damn... Never heard of that before.
can you imagine a company that is in almost every country on earth not being at least piggy-backed by the cia
The name Gil or Gilberto in Spanish is pronounced "Hill"
Coming to a state near you
Welcome to the future of unions in America.
Louder for the union member Trump voters in the back.
As companies that donated to biden harris move jobs overseas
Never known about this, thanks. No more Coke for me.
It is so frustrating, because they could raise the prices and treat all these people decently. It's not like we would stop buying Coke, and we can certainly afford it.
Its difficult in the UK to find a soft drink or bottled water that isn't a Coke cola product I won't buy their products on principle.
16:10 - Um, it's exactly the same here in Michigan, where most towns & impoverished part of cities have toxic water that, even when just bathed in, caused a bunch of chronic, debilitating symptoms. Michigan has the most fresh water sources of anywhere else in the divided world, but ever since NESTLE started bottling it all up, our ability to get our own fresh water is almost impossible! And alot of other beverages are cheaper than bottled water here too!
Hey, also from Michigan here. What you have said is so very true and so sad for us all living in Michigan with the greatest lakes. More times than not in the north where I am, its normal to have yellow/brown/black water.
Yes
Not that they should need to, but can't water be boiled to remove most contaminants?
That only helps with biological contaminants. If there's heavy metals or high amounts of chemicals like chlorine, boiling the water wouldn't help with that.
It wont help in many places
… Biological contaminants, yes. Water must be filtered, or chemically chealated, to remove chemical contaminants.
A business founded on cocaine operating unscrupulously in Columbia? Nooooooo....
🎶 You got the wrong one, baby. 🎅
Why am I not surprised any corporations did what the coke corporation did.
Simon how did you mention Columbia and coke in the same sentence multiple times and keep a straight face
How does this video only have ~100 k views. 🤔
I am begging you to adjust the settings on your de-esser
God, I feel sick just thinking about having to drink nothing but sugary drinks like coke 24/7. I need fresh cold water when I go for a jog or when I wake up in the night thirsty.
soda drinks dont actually hydrate you either. Its sugar water. Does salt water hydrate you?
@ as I said most sugary drinks don’t quench my thirst, and the amount of sugar makes me nauseous, I don’t even want to picture salt water in the stomach, salt water is fatal to drink in any significant amount IIRC, I just wonder if you could boil it down to collect the condensation or would the salt concentration still be too high. 🤔
Greed is a terrible thing
greed is not a terrible thing. what is this, commie propaganda? Unbridled greed and corruption are terrible things. greed is great. marry a greedy man, and you wont ever go hungry.
Yet they still would like to teach the world to sing, just not in Union. Why would you drink anything that puts a chemical in it to keep you from puking because it's too sweet....😮 We are our own worst enemies, thank you for bringing this to light.
when we visit my in laws in mexico, coke is served with breakfast lunch and dinner... at least a 'returnable bottles' incentive is in place 🤔
Corrupt politicians doing as big business dictates, sounds rather normal.
Theres a Nuka Cola joke to be made here
That's why I only drink beers 🍻
this is actually one of the reasons beer was so popular in Europe. One guy literally drew a map of all thhe sick people in town, then dropped the locations of water wells and breweries. and Voila!!!
1 million rounds fired and over a hundred people killed? The people firing those guns must have been aiming at clouds. How tf you miss that many shots
I wonder what movie called 100 years hide
My team lead from work is married to a Mexican woman and when I brought up if it was true, as I'd watched a video talking about Mexicos addiction to coke, he said it was indeed the truth which is actually crazy when you think about it. Heres a very sugary and bad for you product that you shouldn't drink but every now and then but ohhh no fresh water, guess this is it then. Pop that cap and enjoy.
Urgh
So much like chocolate Coca-Cola has an insidious manufacturing process 🙄
Every large company does!
Well done! I shall stop drinking Coke now.
I think other companies like banana 🍌, coffee, oil production ...having similar scandals
what are you even talking about why didn't you mention olive oil in Italy or Avocados in Mexico????
Something wrong with the sound, especially the letter 'S'. Mic issue? Kind of distracting..
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@Hillbilly001 you again 🤣
@@goosenotmaverick1156 LOL!
I don’t really hear it, but, I am listening on noise canceling headphones, Bose quiet, comfort, 35 series 2, to be precise. His microphone might be very slightly too close to his mouth, but not so close that he over modulates significantly.
Ah yes, Coca Cola’s Colombian Death Squads.
There's a young media empire that comes to mind 😂
Always the real thing 👍😛
This is why people going into business school should have to take moral ethics classes.