Quick, Someone - Hide the Enviros!

In the 15 years E-Day! has been held at the State Capitol, our environmental exhibits have only been upstairs (the main floor) twice. This year, we were again bumped backed down to the ground floor, so that soft drink manufacturers could give away their products upstairs.

Yup, the people working for clean air and clean water were relegated to the lower levels so that pushers of sugar- and chemical-laden water could have unfettered access to legislators.

Yup, while the WV Citizen Action Group was downstairs educating folks about the Bottle Bill that CAG’s Linda Mallet and others have worked so hard to promote, commercial interests were upstairs opposing the environmentally-smart bill.

You can bet that the sugar-pushers have a few other reasons to want to sweeten WV legislators to their viewpoints.

Here at home and around the world, citizens are fighting to keep Soda Barons from absconding with huge quantities of their fresh water. More people are trying to get soft drinks out of schools also, noting the super-sized amounts of sugar in these drinks, and the increasing numbers of super-sized kids.

Activists, too, are exposing pesticides in sodas in India and human rights abuses by bottling companies around the world. To learn more about Soda Savagery see www.killercoke.org.