Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
05-03-2006, 19:58
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Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4771676.stm
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Coca-Cola warned the education secretary it might withdraw its vending machines network from schools over her ban on "junk food", letters show. The company told her last November that the proposed ending of fizzy drinks sales would make the business unviable.
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05-03-2006, 20:06
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
Er...no. Are you serious Incognitas or is your post a wind-up?
Somewhere along the line CC must have contributed funds to the school budget. Business is business and companies like CC do not do anything out of a deep love for the children of the world, the arrangement is bound to have been mutually benificial in a financial sense, but you've got to think that what we allow kids to put into their bodies during the years when bones are growing, height and bone density is determined etc. sometimes you have to look beyond the immediate financial benefits and keeping taxes down.
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05-03-2006, 20:13
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
Great news. Replace them all with water.
---------- Post added at 20:13 ---------- Previous post was at 20:09 ----------
At our old school they started to serve coke at dinner and the teachers could tell straight away apprently - classes were hyperactive and uncontrollable after dinnertimes.
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05-03-2006, 20:17
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
My son's school has already banned fizzy drinks. Kids are allowed water, fruit juice or milk-based drinks only.
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05-03-2006, 21:13
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
My secondary school did away with fizzy drinks in the vending machines and we could only get juices and water, college Im at now doesnt sell fizzy drinks either.
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05-03-2006, 21:47
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
Yeah, I notice myself, that if I eat rubbish at dinnertime (albeit rarely) then I'm uncomfortable and restless in the afternoon lessons, and find it hard to sit and concentrate.
On the issue in hand; for them to be able to pose this as a threat to the education secretary, their funding must be, in some way, vital to the wellbeing of schools?
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05-03-2006, 21:49
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
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Originally Posted by Kliro
Yeah, I notice myself, that if I eat rubbish at dinnertime (albeit rarely) then I'm uncomfortable and restless in the afternoon lessons, and find it hard to sit and concentrate.
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05-03-2006, 22:05
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
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Er...no. Are you serious Incognitas or is your post a wind-up?
Somewhere along the line CC must have contributed funds to the school budget. Business is business and companies like CC do not do anything out of a deep love for the children of the world, the arrangement is bound to have been mutually benificial in a financial sense, but you've got to think that what we allow kids to put into their bodies during the years when bones are growing, height and bone density is determined etc. sometimes you have to look beyond the immediate financial benefits and keeping taxes down.
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No I was being sarcastic..or is it ironic?As far as I'm concerned CC should NEVER have been allowed to install their machines in the first place.
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05-03-2006, 22:49
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No I was being sarcastic..or is it ironic?As far as I'm concerned CC should NEVER have been allowed to install their machines in the first place.
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Sarcastically ironic?
And yes, that is me. 
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05-03-2006, 22:52
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
I do kind of like the idea of a free state.. So people should be discouraged from drinking soft drinks in schools rather than outright banning them. Oh well... So I do worry about that, and Labour's grand idea about bullying everyone into following their rules wether they like it or not.
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05-03-2006, 22:54
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4771676.stm
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Coca-Cola warned the education secretary it might withdraw its vending machines network from schools over her ban on "junk food", letters show. The company told her last November that the proposed ending of fizzy drinks sales would make the business unviable.
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05-03-2006, 22:55
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
Punky: I agree. This current government is regulating too much.
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05-03-2006, 23:04
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
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Punky: I agree. This current government is regulating too much.
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Littlejohn came out with a beauty in the Mail the other day... There was an Iranian woman on C4 news the other day complaining that as she wouldn't be able to sit in a coffee house and have a smoke if she was deported, so her human rights would be violated. Littlejohn commented that come next summer, she won't be able to do that here either, thanx to Labour's 'Ayatollahs'. 
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06-03-2006, 00:31
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
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Originally Posted by punky
.....in the Mail the other day...
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06-03-2006, 00:49
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Re: Coca-Cola threat to quit schools
the few problems i can see affecting the total ban on junk foods is who will provide the infrastructure to replace coca-colas ? i mean they say it would be 'unviable' to have the current state of vending machines, so who is going to foot the bill?
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