Tuesday, August 22, 2006

I Don't Get This

So Pepsi and Coke are battling the Indian market right now, cuz India is threatening to stop selling their products due to reports that the drinks are contaminated w/ pesticides. This article I just read notes the following:

"In any case, the strategy did not stop the crisis from growing much worse, as newspapers printed images of cans of the companies’ drinks with headlines like “Toxic Cocktail” and news channels broadcast images of protesters pouring Coke down the throats of donkeys."

Why are protestors pouring what could be a "toxic cocktail" down a poor defenseless animal's throat? How is possibly killing a living thing an intelligent statement of protest? This is really lost on me. It truly is. Explanations welcome.

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