Pepsi is safer than milk!
Published by Yazad Jal September 21st, 2003 in HealthTrust Swaminathan Aiyar to put the entire cola pesticide issue in perspective.
Let’s accept CSE data, regardless of what others say, and compare these with EU norms for various edible items in Europe.You will find that Pepsi has 37 times as much pesticide as the EU norm for water. How dreadful!
But compare Pepsi with other edible products and a totally different picture emerges. Even going by CSE data, Pepsi is 191 times safer than milk and cream. It is 242 times safer than eggs. It is 538 times safer than bovine meat. And it is a whopping 4,118 times safer than apples.
Read the full article. And if you get your hands on a print copy, that’s even better as the table in the print version is not on the net.
Comparing Pepsi with milk is ridiculous. It only proves that Pepsi is safer to drink than milk. But there are larger issues involved that go beyond minor considerations like the health of the consumers. This has to be considered in the context of neo-colonialism by MNCs who treat third-world countries as second-class citizens by using different norms for developed and developing countries. People like Swaminathan Aiyar are unpaid compradors of India’s new rulers. TOI should be ashamed to give a forum to such adulterated crap which only serves to mislead its readers.
This “neo colonialism by MNC’s” rant is so funny. I’ve got to stop laughing before the cybercafe people throw me out.
BTW, I fully agree with you when you say that It only proves that Pepsi is safer to drink than milk. After all that’s what Swami set out to show. Of course, for you, some silly neo colonialism fantasy is more important that safety.
And what’s even funnier is your cowardice in hiding behind an alias. Shows that you don’t have the courage of your conviction.
I am not hiding behind a alias. This is my name and i am proud of it. Don’t insult my parents for coming up with this name.
And I can see that you are also rushing to Pepsi’s defence. Why? Just because Pepsi is safer than milk it doesn’t mean that it is good for the health of the country. These new avatars of the East India company are exploiting consumers by offering them a safe drink at affordable prices in the same way that they used to exploit Indians by selling them cheap cloth in their earlier incarnation. They have already destroyed the indigenous soft drink industry in India.
Of course, even now Mir Jaffers exist.
have already destroyed the indigenous soft drink industry in India.
Care to back up that assertion? Ramesh Chauhan of Parle (makers of Thums up, GoldSpot, etc.) sold his company to Coke, and as it happens, Thums Up, Mazaa, and Limca are still sold in the market. As are Frooti, Appy, and a whole bunch of other drinks.
As for the rest, we call it capitalism. People switched to other drinks of their own will.
If you’ve read the book, “How to lie with statistics”, you would know that percentages are one of the most common ways to deceive people. One of the common tricks is to take a number that’s already low and then show a big percentage jump in it, scaring people.
Let’s take an example (completely made-up):
“Studies show that the number of people exhibiting vampire-like behaviour has jumped by 100% in the past year”.
Wow, that makes for great copy, doesn’t it? What it doesn’t tell you is that there were only 2 people last year who behaved like that, and that number has now gone up to 4. As a percentage, it’s shocking. As an absolute number (4 people out of a population of a billion+), it’s hardly of any concern.
Indians have been drinking milk a lot longer than they’ve been drinking Pepsi. Most of us seem to be doing alright. I don’t see our government banning milk any time soon.
PS: Yazad, what’s with the footnote: Please note that from September 16, 2003, all comments will become the copyright of www.yazadjal.com
You should know that I have to assign copyright to you before you can claim it, unless you’re my employer, which you’re not. You only have the right to reproduce them. Read your law lessons again.
Oy, where are you?
Seriously, where are you ? you can’t just be a comment blogger now.
How is it that everyone has suddenly realised how harmful soft drinks are? where were they all these days?
fail to realise this.