What is Digg?40 Comments
- Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22It's great to hear that the government of India actually cares about the health of its citizens. Unlike here. You'd be surprised at all the toxic chemicals and ***** that are in the common food products that these huge, evil corporations have convinced the public are healthy.
- samdu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I quit drinking sodas SO long ago. Much better off for it, too. And it wasn't really a concerted effort, I just slowly started drinking more water and one day realized that I didn't drink sodas any more. Y'all should give it a shot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Beer and cheese are crap because of restrictions on bacteria, not chemicals. Pretty much anything that doesn't cause immediate death is allowed in flavor and colors.
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Pesti-Cola???
- shaun944, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Coca-Cola is a glaring example of the problems of global corporations operating w/o much in the way of global safety and environmental standards - they go to places like India where they can get away with things they'd be annihilated for in the US.
check out corpwatch.org, they have a ton of articles about the Coke/India problems from the last few years:
http://www.google.com/u/corpwatch?q=india+coke&is=corpwatch.org&x=16&y=1 - itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11rock on, from coke franchises in south america hiring local militia to hunt down union workers, leaders and their families. http://www.killercoke.org
To the carbonation rotting your teeth (apparently gatoraid is worse... so much for that source search)
and you lose 10-16 pounds if you stop drinking soda. (was on tv not long ago)
yeah, soda is bad and fast food restaraunts water it down. i was in japan, the soda was goood x_x even better than our bottled soda - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7CO2 disolved in water lowers the pH, making the water acidic. Your teeth are calcium based. Calcium disolves in an acid.
- hodyoaten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It cracks me up when people in foreign restaurants avoid the water and get sodas... and overlook the ice cubes in their drinks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Drinking Coke and Pepsi is going to be safer then drinking the water there.
- Thex1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sugar left behind on, around and between ur teeth feeds the bugs that live in ur mouth..
Drink rain water.. - Dhruv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5entropy123 says : To be fair I would like to see it demonstrated that the ingredients that go into colas produced by companies native to India are significantly more pesticide free than the products of Coke and Pepsi.
Reply :No native Indian cola companies are left in the market , the ones which existed have been already bought either by cocoa cola or Pepsi. - forteller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6They also steal the water from poor villages in India, forcing a village with 10 000 inhabitants to move, and they give out poisonus byproducts as fertilizer.
Read more about the ***** Coca-Cola does here:
http://www.knowmore.org/index.php/Coca-cola - SPLASTiK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ above
American Beer is some of the best, which is why it places high quite a bit in world beer festivals. Get your heard out of the American macrobrews like Budweiser and Miller if you want a good beer.
***** beer like Budweiser isn't bad because of laws on bacteria or chemicals, it's because of the ingredients they use like rice and the crappy recipes don't help either. - DrunkenPirate34, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Does anyone know what is OK to drink? I am trying to cut back on the soda drinking, but I get tired of just water? Is sprite/7-Up/HI-C better for you?
@itanshi: Carbonation does NOT rot your teeth, btw. Sugar rots your teeth. Carbonation is just C02 + water. If C02 rotted your teeth, every time you exhaled a tooth would fall out. - IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bottled water sold in India goes through the same certification process. CocaCola and PepsiCo use industrial waste water.
- LucidHawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Our society are devoid of vital information about the garbage that we eat; its quite disturbing. It may be somewhere out there in the ocean we call the Internet or libraries but most people either don't have access to it because its sealed up in some journal database or something of the sort. And then when we do find information we can't read the technical jargon or simply sort the crap from truth. Its a horrid mess. I do believe its the goverments job to regulate what we allow into foods very strictly. We can't all be experts.
- Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I suggest you guys read some of the stuff on http://www.newstarget.com
That will give you an idea of how the "health" system of America really works. - laxmitai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Coke and Pepsi cause Cancer. They taste great but they are a hazard to health. Look at all the addicted fat pigs in America who look like baby elephants. The government should not pay for their health insurance.
- Mrkamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought all Coca-Cola Syrup is made in the States.
- Wiggles2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Baby elephants...ha!
You should go to the local Walmart where I live in Virginia- fat worthless ***** everywhere. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6"Secret Cola Recipe":
WD40 + Carbonated Water + Sugar - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Always Coca Cola
- IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Umm no. Water in Indian cities have the same level of bacterial contamination as that in NY/London. Don't spread FUD.
- entropy123, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4This guy provides a more cogent description of the problem:
http://indianeconomy.org/2006/08/09/cola-con/
To be fair I would like to see it demonstrated that the ingredients that go into colas produced by companies native to India are significantly more pesticide free than the products of Coke and Pepsi.
The real problem is contamination of foodstuffs with pesticide. The wester cola companies simply easy targets. - vivsriaus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I second that!
- origclubsoda, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4This is old news - and possibly inaccurate.
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Like what? I'm curious about specific names and examples, not vague statements.
We get a statement about how India, a country with a mutated child born every week and other health issues unheard of in America, caring more about its citizens and no one has any proof of it. - elipabst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@entropy123
Informative link, thanks! - sabotank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Dr. Pepper.....nuff said....
- ChigZilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Coke and Pepsi have got singled out because they are the so called "Evil MNCs" and a vulnerable target in india. Man , if the NGO ("Centre for Science and Environment") was so concerned about pollution and pesticide levels why not ban pesticides themselves? well because thay dont have the guts to face the strong farmers lobby. Why didnt they poach illicit liquor distilleries? because they would have been beaten up badly by those who distill illicit liquor. Hence they chose a soft target , which any politician with double standards would have approved of. Now Kerala has banned soft drinks and trying to sell coconut water, man how do they assume that coconut water is free of pesticide? I guess politicians in kerala would have to mix urine with their evening liquor!
Im not a regular cola drinker, but the comment that thay contain pesticides is absolute crap, and im more inclined to believe that CSE has some soviet era instruments that couldnt tell apart 10 from 0 . Even if they did contain pesticides, the cola companies didnt put them there , it was the so called humble farmers , who are always good at crying to gain sympathy.
Sunita Narain claims to be a dog with bones, has anyone heard a dog without bones? unless served in a Korean restaurant? Not to forget that humans dont have to respond to every whine whimper and bark seriously.
In short people are dying of air pollution and illicit liquor, not because of cola. The only thing thats really worrying about cola is of course the high sugar content. Seriously wish cola companies come out witha low sugar version( 30% of the original) that doesnt contain aspartame or some fancy artificial sweetener etc. - laxmitai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0You have a choice what to eat. Stop blaming the government start controlling food cravings.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Could it be possible that the Indian government is fabricating the pesticide claims?
Bribery is a way of life in India, from the lowliest clerk, every cop and all of the way up to the government. Maybe these claims are being made up to recapture the money spent on soft drinks so that more of it ends up in Indian hands, with the government officials involved getting a cut.
If Coke & Pepsi revelead their recipies, loads of Indian companies could have made lots of money with knock offs ( with a cut paid to the government officals involved ).
If not, India and the Indian government officials still win. Coke and Pepsi get banned, local soft drink and/or beverage manufactures get some major competition cleared out of their way, they make a stack of cash and again, the government officials get paid.
Cola is bascially syryp water. You have to ask yourself why insecticide would be put in there or why it would find its way in there in the process of manufacturing.
It is not beyond Coke or Pepsi to do something like the allegations, but after seeing how anyone in any kind of offical capacity in India operates I see this situation as one set corrupt people against another set of corrupt people. - DrunkenPirate34, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Digg me down.
- origclubsoda, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Its not the governments responsibility to decide what we eat! What are you? a commie?
- nwshc, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4It's a play on words you dumb *****
Pepsi cola + pesticides = PESTI cola
Go back to preschool
edit: who ever is digging him up should do the same - DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1"Unlike here. You'd be surprised at all the toxic chemicals and ***** that are in the common food products that these huge, evil corporations have convinced the public are healthy."
Like what? Because if anything, the US is overly restrictive, which is why our beer and cheese are crap. - nietsnie, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1Dupe, buried.
- Araxen, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3Duplicate Story...
http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/Coke_and_Pepsi_told_to_spill_secrets_or_face_ban
Check out the new & improved 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is