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Friday, September 22, 2006

what's in your Pepsi

According to the official Pepsi site:
Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid and natural flavors

Yum.

If you're in India, though, you get a free shot of pesticides and toxic chemicals with every swig. Double yum!

The government of Kerala recently used these findings to ban sales of Coke and Pepsi throughout the state. Yesterday, Coke and Pepsi won their legal battle to overturn the ban.

And rightly so. Legislators across the world need to get the message loud and clear. Their job is not to protect their citizens from poisoning. Their job is to exercise constant vigilance against any threat, however minute, to the profits of giant multinationals.

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