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55: Soft Drinks and Hard Drugs: Coca-Cola's Story is Soda-pressing

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The History of Coca-Cola

In the early 1900s, Coca-Cola became the biggest buyer of Monsanto's saccharin. They bought so much of it that even Monsanto itself says that if not for Coca-Cola, their company would have gone under by 1905. Coke relied on General Foods, Kraft, Pfizer, Hershey, the list goes on and on and on. You just really screwed everyone else.

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