Indian state bans soft drinks after Coke, Pepsi gets toxic label

breitbart.com ^ | 08-04-06 | WestVirginiaRebel

[WestVirginiaRebel]

An Indian state has banned the sale of soft drinks as the country's highest court told the US beverage giants Pepsico and Coca-Cola to reveal the ingredients of their products.

"The ban will be in force in all educational institutes, including medical and technical colleges and universities and offenders will be punished," a spokesman from the administration of northern Rajasthan state announced Friday.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Welcome to the Nanny State. Sheesh!

[MARKUSPRIME]

This is extortion. They just want to rip off our patents and produce a genric local version. Sorry not going to happen. Enjoy your Fanta.

[Triggerhippie]

The poison is the tastiest part!

[Kirkwood]

Guess you are stuck drinking this slop.

[Dog Gone]

India continues its protectionist communist economy. There's a reason why the most common car is a three-wheeled enclosed scooter and why the most common car in Cuba is a 57 Chevy.

What's amazing is that India is clearly a democracy while Cuba is not.

I'm not sure who drives the better vehicles.

[kingu]

The court reacted to a public lawsuit which argued products sold by both the firms were deeply laced with harmful chemicals such as phosphoric acid, caffeine and aspartame.

Um... Umm... Aren't these already listed on the Coke and Pepsi products? They are on mine.

[My2Cents]

Federal MPs Thursday demanded a nationwide ban on Pepsi and Coke after the privately-funded Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said 11 drinks sold by the two US companies contained unacceptable doses of pesticides.

Right, people should be free to drink pesticide-laced soft drinks without fear of government intervention.

[NorCalRepub]

...haha.....I remember when I was an Operations Manager at Roadway Express...we would get the drums of the base ingrediants for Pepsi or Dr. Pepper...they were so concentrated they required the hazardous material placard "corrosive".....lol.....

[teletech]

This will teach the US not to sell missiles to Pakistan. Ya boy!

[Der Dandy]

Unacceptable doses of pesticides? You mean like the water in India?

[farlander]

Yea I think they're probably *far* safer than drinking from the local well.

[Alter Kaker]

Unacceptable doses of pesticides? You mean like the water in India?

In India, people drink Coke and Pepsi because they assume the water in them is safe to drink, as opposed to other water sources.

Bottled water is always suspect because you can never be sure if someone has pumped dirty water into a fancy bottle. But it's pretty hard to make counterfeit Coke. If the companies don't make a safe product, they should be off the market.

[AirForceBrat23]

Nope, no pesticides in that water. Just rotting corpses.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Most Indians are Hindu, not Muslim (though they have a large amount of Muslims, too).

China could have the second largest population of Christians after the United States, but the country is still mostly atheist/buddhist.

[AirForceBrat23]

I found another article with a LOT more information: Soft Drinks, Hard Cases

[Mike Darancette]

An Indian state has banned the sale of soft drinks as the country's highest court told the US beverage giants Pepsico and Coca-Cola to reveal the ingredients of their products.

They should pass a law that Indian call centers must identify themselves as being Indian when talking to Americans. Since we are so into disclosure.

[Nomad817]

I think part of the complaints in India are also about Coca-Cola taking up local water supplies from scarce areas but selling the water other places and dumping stuff in it, not sure how true that is, and you're right their water has to be pretty bad to begin with.

[Der Dandy]

Then let them drink their rotting corpse water... or RC Cola.

[Maneesh]

You are obviously totally ignorant about current day India. There are Honda's, Toyota's and even BMW's and Mercedes all over the place. To compare India to Cuba shows how out of touch you are. Yes, India is a protected economy compared to the USA but is growing faster than any European economy and is a bona fide democracy with several billionaires and thousands of millionaires. Banning a soft drink for questionable ingredients does not make it a communist economy. If you read the chemical soup that is Pepsi and Coke you shouldn't drink it either, the stuff is nasty for you. I agree that this should be a consumer's choice and not govt enforced but you have clearly gone overboard in your analogy.

[GeronL]

They should not reveal their secret formulas