A recent leak of Coca-Cola’s executive emails uncovered the February & March 2016 lobbying priorities for…

You may remember the surprise last year that Coca-Cola had paid health experts and university researchers to deflect blame about the health harms of soda. Upon further analysis of the payola list, we found that the majority of them…

Recent leak of Coke executive emails give us an inside look at how the soda industry is lobbying to keep marketing soda to kids around the world. They fight and defeat legislation protecting kids from junk food advertising and are adamant in their pursuit to redefine…

Today, Pepsi announced it was reducing sugar in its soda. This is an effort to save their dying business, not to confront obesity as their marketing purports. And it’s strategically timed to affect tax…

It’s now widely reported and known that the soda industry funds biased science in order to manufacture uncertainty and controversy about the negative health harms of soda. Following the tobacco industry’s playbook, studies funded by the soda industry routinely…

Coca-Cola has developed a system to fund and place industry-biased research in media about soda taxes. Select emails from the #CokeLeak of internal Coca-Cola executives showed how the company funds research to disparage the soda tax.

More emails from the recent #CokeLeak of Coca-Cola executive emails expands their worldwide strategy of soda tax opposition to 8 more countries: South Africa, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Ecuador, Canada, India.

On June 9th, 2016 Ben Sheidler, a spokesman in Public Affairs & Communications for the Coca-Cola Company, emailed Coke’s global leadership team with background information and coordinated messages about the Philadelphia soda tax.

An interesting find in the recent #CokeLeak of internal Coca-Cola executive emails is how the soda company actually trains their teams to use a political campaign model.