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I would love to see Pepsico take the lead in healthy foods.  Specifically, healthy sweeteners have increased the life and health span in yeast, fly, and animal models.  Why not test mannoheptulose (The 7 carbon sugar) found in avocados as a soft drink sweetener?  How many customers would buy a drink that increased lifespan from 80 to over 120 healthy years?  The profits for Pepsico == enormous! For human kind ==> HISTORIC!

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Daniel

Laudable movement Would Pepsico support a book launch for Foods Heal? Can see the basic concepts at foodsheal.com :)DrBill

I think major corporations are far more powerful than most people realize. And, this power can be concerning, considering most corporation's number one priority: long term profitability for shareholder. In the world of business there are definitely choices that are profitable but not right. Further, corporations are, legally, an individual with rights. But there is no individual conscience guiding a corporation's actions, instead a large collection of people contribute to corporate action but are ethically detached from the corporation as a whole. Like the Manhattan project, each scientist doing their small part in an ethical way - contributing to - but not owning the responsibility of creating a nuclear weapon.

The government tries to force a limited conscience on some companies, but this is rarely effective in my opinion. Usually intervention by the government just makes things worse.

I think real change in this area can happen, as big corporations start having more two-way conversation with consumers. Consumers want to be healthy. Food could still taste good and be a lot healthier, and if it is mainstream could be just as affordable. Only big corporations have the power to make healthier food mainstream, they just need to realize that even though it may not have as much short-term profitability... happy, healthy, long-living customers are return customers.

Pepsi is making some progress in this area, I have seen it first hand.

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Thanks everyone, for your comments.

Great news for Mexico, where Gamesa Quaker is constructing the Baking Innovation Center!

A great example of strategic Implementation. Action plans and proper executions of such plans are what ensure the fulfillment of an organisation's Strategic Objectives. Otherwise it's just so much rhetoric.

A very proud moment indeed for every nutritionist working at PepsiCo wordlwide. My sincere congratulations to the leadership and for the vision that is beautifully crafted with a purpose.