Two pastors are suing Coca-Cola, after seeing how their parishioners die from diet-related diseases such as stroke, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
The Washington Post: 'We're losing more people to the sweets than to the streets': Why two black pastors are suing Coca-ColaThe complaint, filed in D.C. Superior Court Thursday on behalf of the pastors and the Praxis Project, a public health group, alleges that Coke and the ABA ran an intentional campaign to confuse consumers about the causes of obesity.
Lamar and Delman Coates, the pastor at Maryland's Mount Ennon Baptist Church, claim soda marketing has made it more difficult for them to protect the health of their largely black, D.C.-based parishioners.
