“How Soda Companies’ Social Responsibility Campaigns Are Harming Your Health”

This Time magazine article reports on a recent paper published in the journal PLoS Medicine which examined how soda companies’ social responsibility campaigns are “designed to refocus responsibility from corporations back onto consumers [and] increase the popularity of the companies’ products.”

The same can be said about Coca-Cola and PepsiCo’s partnerships with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Such relationships are only beneficial to soda companies; they acquire an undeserved reputation of “caring about health”, while the health organization they partner with — in this case, AND — earns the (deserved) reputation of selling out their credential and members to the highest bidder.