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Vitamin Water Lawsuit

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has sued Coca-Cola for selling Vitamin Water.  CSPI's claim is that Vitamin Water is not good for you.  No duh.  In a Platonic sense, CSPI has a point.Vitamin water is not good for you.  It is loaded with crystalline fructose - a euphemism for high fructose corn syrup.  One bottle of Vitamin water has enough sugar to rot your teeth and give you a Vitamin-Water belly.  Yet somehow Coca-Cola has convinced people to buy the stuff.  People also buy low-fat chips and baked Lay's.  People like to rationalize unhealthy decisions.  Vitamin Water may as well have been made with water from a river in Egypt.However, Coca-Cola has told no lies.  CSPI's client claims otherwise:The lead plaintiff in the case, San Francisco resident James Koh, said in a statement, "I was attracted by the prospect of getting extra vitamins...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).