India demands coke/pepsi to reveal formula

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: feralkid

Therefore, it's o.k. to use pesticide contaminated water.

Pesticides don't even kill people. I've eaten plenty of fruit right after it's been sprayed right off the three. Pesticides kill bugs, not humans. Hype.

 

[CycloWizard]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Pesticides don't even kill people. I've eaten plenty of fruit right after it's been sprayed right off the three. Pesticides kill bugs, not humans. Hype.

Pesticides may not kill humans (directly), but ignorance will. Not all pesticides are created equal. The acute effects a given pesticide has on you will also be heavily concentration-dependent. Pesticides may act as sensitizers and build up in your system over time, since your body cannot degrade them. So go ahead - eat that pesticide-ridden fruit right after it's been sprayed. Don't cry to me when you have cancer in 20 years.

 

[RichardE]

At least India is doing something, here it would be covered up in the courts and 1.50$ checks would be mailed to a millionr or two people in a Class action.

 

[firewall]

Originally posted by: RichardE
At least India is doing something, here it would be covered up in the courts and 1.50$ checks would be mailed to a millionr or two people in a Class action.

Yeah, they are doing something but what they are doing is certainly not the right thing to do. They should check what is actually happening at the production facilities rather than demand the formula.

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: CycloWizard

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Pesticides don't even kill people. I've eaten plenty of fruit right after it's been sprayed right off the three. Pesticides kill bugs, not humans. Hype.

Pesticides may not kill humans (directly), but ignorance will. Not all pesticides are created equal. The acute effects a given pesticide has on you will also be heavily concentration-dependent. Pesticides may act as sensitizers and build up in your system over time, since your body cannot degrade them. So go ahead - eat that pesticide-ridden fruit right after it's been sprayed. Don't cry to me when you have cancer in 20 years.

So I "may" have cancer in 20 years due to eating literally POUNDS of fruit every year that has pesticide directly on it? So compare that to the issue at hand. Their "may" be pesticide in coke/pepsi, and that "may" give people cancer if they drink the equivilent to the amount of pesticide I've DIRECTLY eaten each year (probably way more than a person can possibly handle).

This reminds me of a picture I have where John Stossel is standing around in his street clothes next to EPA workers with Biohazard suits on. The EPA had claimed to be a dangerous level of dioxin in the area. Makes me laugh.

 

[VooDooAddict]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
This reminds me of a picture I have where John Stossel is standing around in his street clothes next to EPA workers with Biohazard suits on. The EPA had claimed to be a dangerous level of dioxin in the area. Makes me laugh.

LMAO - That explains a lot.

 

[Legend]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: CycloWizard

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Pesticides don't even kill people. I've eaten plenty of fruit right after it's been sprayed right off the three. Pesticides kill bugs, not humans. Hype.

Pesticides may not kill humans (directly), but ignorance will. Not all pesticides are created equal. The acute effects a given pesticide has on you will also be heavily concentration-dependent. Pesticides may act as sensitizers and build up in your system over time, since your body cannot degrade them. So go ahead - eat that pesticide-ridden fruit right after it's been sprayed. Don't cry to me when you have cancer in 20 years.

So I "may" have cancer in 20 years due to eating literally POUNDS of fruit every year that has pesticide directly on it? So compare that to the issue at hand. Their "may" be pesticide in coke/pepsi, and that "may" give people cancer if they drink the equivilent to the amount of pesticide I've DIRECTLY eaten each year (probably way more than a person can possibly handle).

This reminds me of a picture I have where John Stossel is standing around in his street clothes next to EPA workers with Biohazard suits on. The EPA had claimed to be a dangerous level of dioxin in the area. Makes me laugh.

With fruits/vegetables, you can choose to buy organic with the kinds that are prone to high concentration of pesticides. Like you could buy organic strawberries, peaches, spinach, but buy conventional bananas, oranges, etc.

Corn syrup isn't going to help any bodily process to remove pesticides from the body, but produce does.

But it's more likely insulin resistance, diabetes, obesity will get to people first, unless they eat a balanced diet with soda.

 

[TheSlamma]

My fav is the phosphoric acid, I remember using that to clean off metal before I aluminum plated it.

 

[mackle]

I rather drink Coke/Pepsi all day long than drink water from India......If they don't like it, let them drink water instead.

 

[Shame]

Why would George W. Bush do this? :Q

 

[CycloWizard]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
So I "may" have cancer in 20 years due to eating literally POUNDS of fruit every year that has pesticide directly on it? So compare that to the issue at hand. Their "may" be pesticide in coke/pepsi, and that "may" give people cancer if they drink the equivilent to the amount of pesticide I've DIRECTLY eaten each year (probably way more than a person can possibly handle).

This reminds me of a picture I have where John Stossel is standing around in his street clothes next to EPA workers with Biohazard suits on. The EPA had claimed to be a dangerous level of dioxin in the area. Makes me laugh.

Yes, I suppose it's funny now. It probably won't be when you're getting chemo in 20 years. Maybe eating all those pesticide-laden fruits is what killed all those brain cells, allowing you to laugh at science.