‘We’re losing more people to the sweets than to the streets’: Why two black pastors are suing Coca-Cola

[TomSea]

‘We’re losing more people to the sweets than to the streets’: Why two black pastors are suing Coca-Cola
By Caitlin Dewey July 13 at 2:10 PM

William Lamar, the senior pastor at D.C.’s historic Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, is tired of presiding over funerals for parishioners who died of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.

So on Thursday, he and another prominent African American pastor filed suit against Coca-Cola and the American Beverage Association, claiming soda manufacturers knowingly deceived customers about the health risks of sugar-sweetened beverages — at enormous cost to their communities.

The complaint, filed in D.C. Superior Court Thursday on behalf of the pastors and the Praxis Project, a public health group, alleges that Coke and the ABA ran an intentional campaign to confuse consumers about the causes of obesity.

Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/13/were-losing-more-people-to-the-sweets-than-to-the-streets-why-two-black-pastors-are-suing-coca-cola/?utm_term=.a805a3c7fb6a

[Joe Wooten]

Why don't they also sue the low-fat/no fat hoaxers too? They are more than 50% responsible for sugar sweetened crap being really prevalent.

[goatprairie]

I guess Coca Cola must be sending armed agents to these peoples' dwellings forcing them to swig down gallons of Coke.
Because nobody is responsible for what they do to themselves...right?