Friday, September 18, 2009

Nestle Baby Food Is Not Safe! - says Greenpeace


I saw this mail mentioning 'baby food,' and instantly my alertness quotient skyrocketed. 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 dares not sell genetically-tainted food in the 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,

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A few quick Google searches I found several articles corroborating this fact. It stuns me that a company & a brand as trusted as Nestle could do this. I sure don't want to feed my baby stuff that is an experiment for someone else.

Hope Nestle's paying heed. We don't want GM stuff.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Are swear words necessary to appear cool?

I am not sure, but it seems like our threshold of tolerance, especially for swear words, keeps rising with each passing generation. Earlier, when in school, words like bloody, bitch, rascal (oh yeah!), etc. were unmentionable. And kids 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 strong feelings, yet it was once again the unruly, living-on-the-edge types who swore using the F & C words, which was completely unladylike. But that was the early 90's.

Now I hear my neighbour's son, who is all of 8 or 10, swear an 'F%*k' when he fell off his cycle, and no shocked looks passed among the parent lot. His friend offers his hand in disdain and says calmly - "Dude, here, give me your bloody hand"!

Two hoots says the bloody cool [V] gen? Not impressed is all I can say in dismay.