Why black pastors are suing Coca-Cola: More brothers killed by “sweets” than “the streets”

Friday, July 28, 2017
By Paul Martin

by: Ethan Huff
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Tired of watching members of their religious community fall victim to the health perils of sugar-laden soft drinks, a group of African-American pastors is filing a lawsuit against both the Coca-Cola Company and the American Beverage Association (ABA) for engaging in what the group says are deceptive marketing tactics concerning the safety of these companies’ beverage products.

Leading the charge is William Lamar, the senior pastor at Washington, D.C.’s historic Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. Lamar says he’s had to preside over so many funerals for parishioners who have died of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, that he finally decided enough was enough. The health toll from soda products is simply too great not to do something, he says, and many others in his religious community agree.

According to The Washington Post, the suit has been filed on behalf of both Lamar and his fellow pastors, and the Praxis Project, a public health group that also believes both Coca-Cola and the ABA have been intentionally misleading the public about the primary causes of obesity.

“It’s become really clear to me that we’re losing more people to the sweets than to the streets,” stated Lamar and Delman Coates, pastor at Maryland’s Mount Ennon Baptist Church, to The Post about the epidemic of health problems he, too, is seeing ravage his community. “There’s a great deal of misinformation in our communities, and I think that’s largely a function of these deceptive marketing campaigns.”

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