THE WAR ON HEALTH: Whistleblower Exposes Coke’s Efforts to Paint Opponents of Sugary Drinks as Racists. “Means also alleges that the FDA funneled money to universities, as well as conservative and liberal think tanks, to claim that soda did not cause obesity. He also states that soda manufacturers have been ‘deeply embedded’ in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, of all places, which led to the concept that there was no such thing as “bad foods” only ‘bad diets.’ It also meant that in 2007, soda was kept in the SNAP government nutrition program.”