Pesticides in Coke and Pepsi products??

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&resnum=0&spell=1&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=pepsi+pesticides&btnG=Search+News

Studies in India have been made about many soft drinks made by Coca-Cola and Pepsico that show a level of pesticides many times over the legal amount. Both companies variantly deny the studies. Is it time they finally spill the beans on their formula?

Interestingly enough, the only news websites that have these stories are either from Europe or India, with the exception of independent U.S. websites.

I wonder if it will ever get to the major U.S. news networks... probably not, it would reduce sales and the efficiency of advertising, which is pretty much what U.S. news media is about.

Here's some more info about Coke in India (Pepsi faces similar problems):

http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke

All that sugar and artificial flavorings can't be much better for you.

Ha! If only it were sugar in those drinks. Like the plurality of products you find in mainstream U.S. supermarkets (I can't speak for India or Europe), Coke and Pepsi products are primarily Starlink "corn," genetically modified to survive in an artificial substrate saturated with poisons, and then run through a chemistry set to concentrate its constituent fructose, starch, and oils. In combination with patented flavor chemicals and preservatives, these "Food Products" sabotage the body's cravings and metabolism, creating a situation much like the Starlink fields: an impoverished, monochrome environment in which a poor parody of life (in this case cancer cells instead of "corn" will thrive. Any pesticides in there are just the seeds.

thank you, Im never drinking that shit again!, if it can clean oil off the ground WTF is it doing to your stomach O.O;;;

Mmmmm pesticidy goodness

All processed food includes corn syrup now. It really screws up your metabolism.

It's basically extremely concentrated sugar.

I bet this is why diabetes are on the rise.

There is pesticide in ALL our foods. Even the 'organic' foods.

I think pesticides give it that extra zing of bubblygoodness.

There's some pesticide in organics due to ambient levels in the environment, but organic, whole foods (particularly locally sourced, non-agribusiness crops) are still the best way to reduce both your personal poison intake and the amount of new poisons entering the environment.

The really frightening thing is when industrial agriculture methods get exported to developing countries with no experience of their use and no safeguards in place. Most crops in China are considered unfit for consumption even by lax U.S. standards, due to the overuse of pesticides.

Most of the imported Chinese herbs I want are clearly marked that they may contain substances known to cause cancer.

I agree 100%

ok coke can be used to dissolve battery acid, so pesticides are not the main issue here

If you like soda, and you want to avoid corn syrup and all the other nasty crap that's bee mentioned in this thread, Boylan's Bottling Company makes some awesome stuff. I bumped into one of their sales reps doing a promotional tasting one day (in a hospital cafeteria of all places), and as soon as he said, "all our products are made with pure cane sugar", I was sold.

Not that sugar's exactly healthy if consumed in excess, but it is at least digestible, and it's not unhealthy at all in reasonable amounts. The same cannot be said for high fructose corn syrup, which is 100% indigestible, and really screws up your body, in any amount.

The corn lobby in the US is incredibly powerful, and they pretty much own the FDA. They can get away with just about whatever they want, and switching our processed food industry from sugar use to high fructose corn syrup use was perhaps their greatest financial acheivement - at the expense of all of our health. They're worse than the tobacco companies, in my opinion. At least smoke can be avoided. That damned corn syrup is virtually impossible to sidestep. It's in everything.

Ever wonder why our government almost completely ignores every gasoline alternative, but embraces corn-based ethanol? Yup, same corn lobby lining the politicians' pockets. Nevermind that the process used to produce ethanol from corn is just as poluting as burning gasoline in the first place, and that the equivilient process to make it from other sources (like sugar cane) can be 8 times more efficient. Corn is the money crop in this country, and that's that.

Anyway, if you want some great-tasting soda that's not all that bad for you, Boylan's is the only soda company I know of that actively refuses to use corn syrup. They've got a product line called "The Natural Kind", which contains not only no corn syrup, but also no artifical flavors, no artificial colors, and no preservitives. It's great stuff.

Check it out at http://www.boylanbottling.com/

Until some studies are done on the products for sale in the US, people won't get concerned about pesticide levels. Soft drinks are bottled with local water, so the problem is likely to be pesticides in the water supply, rather than in the Coke or Pepsi syrup. Bad if you live in or visit India; no immediate concern if you don't.