arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Coke and Pepsi have agreed to stop selling soda in elementary and middle schools in Canada by the start of the next school year.

Coke and Pepsi bottlers plan to sell water, juices, juice drinks and sports drinks in vending machines in elementary and middle schools.

Coke and Pepsi should agree to pull soda out of public schools in Belgium as well.

Moreover, Coke and Pepsi should stop selling soda in high schools and not just elementary and junior high school.

Everyone in Belgium and throughout the world should contact their local school officials and ask that soda not be sold on school property.

Make a difference where you live.

Do it for the kids.

I agree in so far as that all United States companies should be scrutinized and or,removed all together.

Companies like Coca Cola and Pepsi like the United States itself,promote and support terrorism and mass murder throughout the world and the support of any American company in any form,supports,aids and perpetuates United States foreign policy.

Margaret Mead once said:

"Never doubt that a group of concerned citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

Here are just some of the concerned citizens from all the 50 states who are seeking to stop the soda companies from promoting soda to the captive audience of our schoolchildren.

"It raises a serious question as to what price you put on good health."

--Birmingham, Alabama school board member Dannetta K. Thornton Owens, who approved policy requiring more nutritious products in vending machines

"A couple of decades ago, we didn't even start looking for type 2 diabetes if a person was under the age of 45, That's out the window now."


--Dr. Julian Naylor, director of the Alaska Native Medical Center Diabetes Program

“My analogy would be to the story ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster.’ The school's made a pact with the devil in my view, and not only that but they've sold themselves real cheap.”


--Alex Molnar, Professor of Education Policy and Director
of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University.

"There's got to be better ways for schools to make money than push sugar on kids.”


--Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, supports pilot ban on junk food and soft drinks

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mohandas Gandhi


Caroline Grannan of Parents Advocating School Accountability, quote from PASA website

“Food Fight!”
Kelly Brownell, Yale Professor, author of “Food Fight!”, which includes two chapters on soda in schools.

“Although physical activity is critically important to children’s healtn
and to maintaining a healthy weight, a 110-pound child would have to bike for 1 hour and 15 minutes to burn of a 20-ounce Coke.


--Margo Wootan, of the Center for Science in the Public Interest


“I didn’t bring 30,000 kids to our community to profit from them.”


-- Scott Strong, Lake County School Board Member

“It’s one thing for a parent to be vigilant at home in terms of the diet they provide for their kids, and then suddenly, they send them to school and all bets are off when they have access to vending machines with candy bars and soda pop,”


--Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who will be make banning junk food and soft drinks from vending machines in public schools a legislative priority during the General Assembly’s spring session

“These companies aren’t stupid. They’re selling a way of life, and if a kid grows up drinking Coke, they become lifelong Coke drinkers.”


Jude Maculec, who has two children attending High School

“[Schools with soda contracts] might be penny wise, but pound foolish."


--John Paschen, a pediatric doctor at McFarland Clinic in Ames, Iowa

“I could make a fortune selling cigarettes, and I don't do it."


--Dixie Heights High School Principal Kim Banta

"Our bad habits are costing us a lot of money and killing our people."


--State Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, supporter of a measure to ban soda and junk snacks from Kentucky schools in the Kentucky General Assembly

"There are a bunch of people in sneakers supporting their schools and making changes within. We need to continue to keep on the state for an anti-obesity legislation. But neither should the schools wait for changes to happen."


--activist and author Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton, Maine

"Our schools have got to be doing a better job," he said. "You visit these snack lines, you don't find fruit, yogurt and granola. You find chips, Kit Kats and Snickers."


--State Sen. Virg Bernero, D-Lansing, supporter of legislation to put limits on what schools sell

"If you offer other options, students will take them. Kids are here to learn, not to drink pop."


--Dave Kiesel, the school's principal for instruction at Middle School at Parkside

"I know the correlation between the intake of sugar and the impact it has on instruction and on kids' ability to pay attention in class."


--Mount Clemens Schools Superintendent T.C. Wallace

"I really think this is a trend that will sweep across the country."
--State Rep. Frank Accavitti

"I don't know how any school can't be looking at this. We all get the same information on the studies."


--Sue Backman, who oversees Minnesota’s Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan district's food-service program.

“ I think once one district takes a stand, others will follow."


--Robyn Loewen, a Rochester, Minnesota pediatric dentist working to curb sugar consumption in schools

“Why doesn’t teaching kids help? Because we leave the Coke machine in the hallway even as we say, ‘Don’t drink it.’”


--Heidi Halverson, a dental hygienist in Montana

“Stop hurting our kids.”


--Ellen Brown, a parent and coordinator for MOVE, a Missoula, Montana group promoting healthful eating and physical activity, who says she would like to see a letter-writing campaign to Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The message: Stop hurting our kids.

"As a country, we have to wake up. We are in an epidemic. We're all paying the price."


--Nevada state Sen. Valerie Wiener, who heads a state committee gathering data on obesity, and how the legislature, food companies, the health care system and schools can act."

"If we don't get a handle on this problem of childhood obesity, we will raise the first generation of kids who live sicker and die younger than their parents."


Mike McGinnis, senior vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, N.J.

"Food marketing to children is big business aimed at uncritical minds."


Marion Nestle, Chair, Department of Nutrition & Food Studies, New York University and author of “Food Politics.”

"The fundamental rights of our children to a sound education are at stake. Will we treat our children as commodities to be sold rather than as assets to be cherished? Money is needed, without doubt. We are grateful to the many companies that contribute money and personnel regularly to our schools. They seek nothing in return, but step forward as responsible corporate citizens. Our school board need to foster more of these 'no-strings' contributions. Parents and school boards need to use their powers of persuasion to convince the community and the state to fund our schools -- not to promote caffeinated sugar water to a captive audience."

  --Patricia Waelder, a Syracuse mother of 9 and grandmother of 26 and now on the Syracuse Common Council, was the inspiration for the broad challenges to the legality of the New York State 'pouring rights' agreements.

“Let loose the dogs of war!”


-- Larry Alibrandi, of American Quality Beverages, maker of nutritionally engineered sports drinks

"We have an epidemic of marketing-related problems in our children, like obesity. Across the country, parents are saying they don't want their kids for sale. Not their time, not their health, not for sale."


--Gary Ruskin, executive director for Commercial Alert.

"We have items in the snack machines that are not as healthy as we would like, but the items do have some nutritional value."


--Tahlequah Public Schools District Superintendent Paul Hurst who ordered the replacement of soda pop in vending machines with fruit juice, sports drinks and water.

"It is safe to say that there will be ... no soda in the schools." "There is a consensus [on the School Reform Commission that] what is sold in the schools needs to be of nutritional value."


--Paul Vallas, the chief executive of Philadelphia's public school system

"Health is more important than the almighty dollar."


--Chamberlain, South Dakota Superintendent Tim Mitchell.

[Her actions speak louder than words.]


--Texas Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs

"Then we might as well legalize prostitution, too, so schools can make even more money. That's how asinine the argument for pop machines really is."


--Sherlock Hirning, Eureka School superintendent.

"The fate of these junkfood bills in Washington state clearly shows that large corporations already have far more say in what goes on in our schools than parents, teachers and citizens combined, even when children's lives are at stake."

--Brita Butler Wall, co-founder of  The Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools (CCCS) a statewide grassroots, nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington, and now a newly-elected Seattle School Board member

"If we don't get a handle on this, this generation of kids coming up will have a shorter life span than their parents. That's scandalous."


--Nidia Henderson, wellness manager at West Virginia's Public Employees Insurance Agency.

“Mountain Dew Mouth.”


--Cody, Wyoming Dentist James Landers, who has lobbied to have soda removed from Cody schools recognizes this phrase as the condition of mouths who drink soda regularly

quotes taken from articles from the 50 states collected at
http://www.schoolpouringrights.com