Is Change Another Word For Progress?

As times change, so do companies. In 1806hazards. The AHA recommends women have no
William Colgate founded a company to makemore than 100 calories from added sugar a day
soap, candles and starch. Colgate toothpasteand that men limit those calories to 150. A
wasn’t made until 1873. In 1837 John Deere12-ounce can of Classic Coca-Cola contains 140
was a frustrated blacksmith in Grand Detour,calories. Things might go better with Coke –
Illinois trying to make plows that cut through thejust not so much.
area’s clay. When he started to make hisA few years ago activist/entrepreneur, Jeff
plows with cast steel, he started the John DeereBerman, told farmers in Dove Creek, Colorado
Equipment Company. In 1866 David McConnell soldthat he would build a plant to convert sunflower
books door-to-door. To appeal to womenseeds to biodiesel if they would grow the
customers he offered free perfume. When thesunflowers. Convinced there was more money
perfume became more popular than the books,per acre in sunflowers than in beans and wheat,
McConnell founded the California Perfumefarmers were growing thousands of acres by
Company – which became Avon. Change2008 and the plant was under construction.
changes us.That’s when federal subsidies for biofuels
By the end of 2011 the Coca-Cola Company plansended. Berman’s plans had to change. Instead
a change – to put nutrition facts – whatof biofuel, the sunflower seeds make food-grade
Coca-Cola calls “energy information” –sunflower oil. Nevertheless, hulls and pieces of
on the front of almost all its packaging worldwide.plant material are turned into gas to help power
This change is in response to the public wantingthe plant. Both sunflowers and hope continue to
this information easily visible and to the Americangrow.
Heart Association adding sugar to its list of heart