Antara Echoes

I saw this mail mentioning 'baby food' and instantly my alertness quotient skyrocketd. This was the message it contained: Nestle food products (including baby food) are fairly popular in India, but I just found out something about their policy for the products they sell in India, and it's shocking. Nestle has actually admitted it would use genetically-contaminated products in the food it sells in this country. But what's more shocking is that this is the same Nestle that dare not sell genetically-tainted food in EU, Russia or Brazil. Are Indian people less human? Are we guinea pigs and lab rats? Are we less deserving of safe food than citizens of other countries? This has got to change, and it has to change now! That's just why I've told Nestle Chairman Antonio Waszyk to come clean on the products his company sells in my country. Just click here to join me in demanding safe, GM- Free food from Nestle. And thanks for your support! Thanks again, *****************...

I am not sure but it seems like our threshold of tolerance specially for swear words keeps raising with each passing year. Earlier when I was in school words like - bloody, bitch, rascal (oh yeah!) etc was unmentionable. And girls who used to utter them within the pristine convent environment were shunned as the bad lot. Sounds hilarious now, but true. Later once we entered our teens it became cool to drop in a 'bitch' or a 'bloody', once in a while just to emphasize our strong feelings, yet it was once again the unruly who swore using the F & C words which was completely unladylike. But that was early 90's. Now I hear my neighbours son swear a 'F%$*' when he fell of his cycle and no shocking looks passed. His friend offers his hand in disdain and says calmly - "Dude, here give me your bloody hand"! So two hoots to Bloody Cool [V]. You guys have arrived!