Last night while watching the news on Asianet, I wanted to hide die. VS and his politburo had decided to ban the manufacture and sale of all products of Coca Cola and Pespi in Kerala.
What else can you expect from a comi government that prides itself for destroying computers and farm equipment because it was ‘anti-employment’?
Is this Coca Cola and Pepsi the real issue here? The CSE tested 17 products, only two made it through (thanks Anony for the tip). Evian and Himalaya. Can the Politburo of morons please ban all the drinks on the list in Kerala?
Can they please test the water provided by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA)?
Our ground water is contaminated due to excessive use of pesticides. We need to encourage our farmers to move to organic and safer modes of farming. That’s the real solution, not banning the products of two multinational companies.
This is not about globalisation and the evil American imperialists, this is about our ground water.
Get it? G R O U N D W A T E R R R R R R R
What happens to all the people employed directly and indirectly by the two companies in Kerala? Are you going to feed their families?
Maybe they should go on strike and burn buses, that would help, now that you are in government, right? Teach them Iqulab Zindabad and a few flags and off you go…
Equally disturbing is how some Malayalees see this as something to be proud of, “high literacy, high life expectancy, religious harmony and look ….. we banned Pepsi and Coke first!”
Earlier post, “Pesticola, dare for more?”
Full disclosure: Author’s family is well known in Kerala for their anti-comi activites for a number of decades and founded the Kerala Congress. The Kerala Congress is a party based on family values… er…. as in, the party stands for whatever the author’s family values…to be more precise…
August 11, 2006 at 12:01 am
Your are right. Banning the two brands achieves nothing. The problem is the environment, not a product of that environment! About being educated, you only need to score forty percent (pre 1992) to pass exams in govt. schools. Less than 30% passes high school with out moderation. So education itself doesn’t mean much. Education doesn’t mean rational thinking either. But the politicians like it that way (both right & left-wingers). If the constituents are educated, they won’t believe everything the politicians say and pick up a flag and create chaos.
August 11, 2006 at 12:53 am
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August 11, 2006 at 8:50 am
Too often, organic forms of farming are more costly and work-induced than other methods, there is less profit involved, less income. And so many are sustainable farmers, ie they only make enough for themselves to eat and pay taxes. I’m all for sustainable and organic farming, but unless we can make this form cheaper than the use of pesticides, and allow for genetically-modified plants that are resistant to bugs and disease to be grown, than the pollution will thus continue.
August 11, 2006 at 7:13 pm
You are right. Could be just a political stunt.
August 11, 2006 at 7:26 pm
According to the order, they have banned just Coca Cola and Pepsi. Nothing else. You can still buy everything else made by these companies.
If this isn’t a political stunt, I don’t know what is??
August 12, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Politcal stunt, no doubt. By the next moon cycle this will be repealed.
August 14, 2006 at 9:16 pm
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August 24, 2006 at 7:28 pm
what chacko said is 100% true. i totally agree to it. i just cant beleive they did it. these bloody communist morons made our state the least industrialised state bcoz of their strike n whatever, n now we had a beautiful project coming in our state called the smart city n that 2 bcoz of stupid reasons they stoped from entering .
and last not least they stopped the manufacture and sale of these soft drinks, in which way are they gonna benfit the people of kerala i dont know, coz there are different sorts of thing which will harm a persn n top of that what about thousands of people who were empoloyed directly or indirectly and thier families.who are gonna feed them .
only god knows where this state is heading to.
September 7, 2006 at 3:03 pm
might want to read this http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1786253,001302440000.htm