Pesticides are good for our health.....

FT reporter in ND, Jo Johnson, quotes “a person close to the situation” that “These are world-class and symbolic US companies getting kicked.” Both, Pepsico and Coca Cola seem to be saying that their drinks have “insignificant levels of pesticide as compared to milk, eggs and meats available in the country”. Wow! I wonder whether they would dare to even make such a statement (let alone keeping such high levels of pesticide) if this had happened in a non-“Third World” country!

And what happened to their claims that there were NO pesticides in their drinks when the NGO found same results last year? Only when this NGO repeated its tests did these multinationals change their tune. And look at the way they are carrying on about FDI to India being affected if any legal action was taken against them. Dear CC and PCO, FYI not all FDI is made by people hell-bent on getting the most out of India by selling inferior quality products and services.

The icing on the cake was when CC sent their own samples to an private lab in UK and paid for the tests. Lo behold! The lab said that the drink was absolutely compliant of EU standards.......

Samples THEY sent to a lab of THEIR choice for the tests which THEY had paid for would obviously be COMPLIANT of the highest standards. Is it a surprise???

And I was a Coke fan...... I am now off all soda drinks. Hey beer, I am back again!!!!

Interesting reader comment on FT

Financial Times August 11, 2006

“How independence for India affected history of Mideast”
From Mr Guy Wroble Denver, co 80220, US

Sir, Stanley M. Spitzer (“To get to the truth you must go back to November 1947”, Letters August 8) that November 27, 1947 was the crucial date in the origin of the current problems in the Middle East. On that date the United Nations passed a partition plan for Palestine that was rejected by the Arab League. Unfortunately, he misses the mark by two-and-a-half months.

The telling date is actually August 15, 1947 – the date India became independent. This marked the beginning of the end of the era of European colonisation.

The notion that the Arab League could have sanctioned the establishment of a European/Jewish colony in Palestine so soon after a fifth of humanity had been set free from imperial rule is a remarkable misreading of history.