Should we be boycotting Coke?

So I came across this article today that leveled some pretty big allegations at Coca-Cola...and not the urban legend kind, either, like that one tale about how if you marinate pork chops in Coke for three days, the Coke will eat away at the meat until the pork chop disintegrates.

Nope, these allegations come from the Wall Street Journal (of all sources!), and it gives a profile of an Indian activist who now lives in the states, named Amit Srivastava, who started this NGO that talks about the damage that Coca-Cola is doing in India. And some of it's pretty serious stuff...like massive environmental degradation, siphoning so much water from the ecosystem that neighorbing residents don't have enough for drinking, and so on. Sheesh! Aren't they supposed to be making f***ing soft drinks?! Not destorying the world?

Anyway, I'm certainly no expert on this subject, but figured if the Wall Street Journal ran a piece like this, then there must be at least some kernal of truth to these allegations. It also ties into another campaign I've heard about, Killer Coke, which has for quite some time leveled allegations against Coke that the company has bene complicit in the murder of union organizers in Colombia.

Ugh...thankfully I haven't heard anything bad about Pepsi since Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State! Ignorance is bliss, though.