[aruanan]

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.

Note the weasal words "unacceptable doses" and "deeply laced". These are completely subjective and polemic. Of course, locally produced Coke and Pepsi could have been contaminated by bottling plants that bottle more than Coke and Pepsi. As far as their listed ingredients go, though, there is nothing there that in the right amounts aren't harmless or in the wrong amounts aren't deadly. "Food" is just the happy-face label applied to a chemical assemblage. Any one of those chemicals in the appropriate amount could make you sick or kill you. And the lack of many of those chemicals in the right amount could sicken and kill you as well.

[Dog Gone]

This all results from a lawsuit alleging that the drinks contained dangerous chemicals like caffeine?

I hope tea has been outlawed in India.

[Gengis Khan]

"Note the weasal words "unacceptable doses" and "deeply laced". These are completely subjective and polemic. "

Yes very very diabolical of the Indian government. /sarc