11.16.06
Pesticides, colas and other important things that we should really be concerned about – like our own goddamn LIFE !!
I was shocked to learn that colas contain pesticides. I was under the impression that they contained rat poison, Baygon spray, and lead from batteries. But my alcoholic father, on his death bed, convinced me that these were the main ingredients in the arrack he drank. So the colas looked a lot milder. Just pesticides huhn?
My mummy had always warned me against drinking Kokka Kolah. She knew that vile drink was not good for my health. As I look at my mom’s picture hanging on the wall, with a LaxmanSylvania bulb in the background and a cheap plastic garland bought from Tulshibaugh, my eyes always moisten.
Sarla Deshpande, my mother, was always anti soft drinks even when it was not fashionable to condemn cola companies. Whenever she had the opportunity she physically prevented me and my siblings from consuming cola. And she was so strong in her intent that even if we went on the sly to buy cola, her words always haunted us and we retraced our steps from the store. For a long time I drank my alcohol straight, no mixing with colas. We stopped drinking cola, until my mom finally died at the age of 45. She was on a naturopathy diet and consumed water and raw vegetables. What she did not know was that the water was laced with pesticides, so were the vegetables and when consumed raw even the more deadly since a lot of times, foreign elements are killed by the heat when cooked. All her contemporaries, who cared a damn and drank a lot of cola are still alive and kicking.
Moral of the story: Drinking cola increases your life span.
My mother was also all for good skin. She consumed Safi by the gallon. In her last days she did seem to have lost it. Now NDTV tells me that all ayurvedic concoctions related to skin have a more than high dose of mercury. My mom’s nervous system was hit, but what the hell she had perfect skin when she died. I’m sure every 16 year old girl going to college will choose Safi over bad pimply skin. So what if they die young, they die good looking. It’s all about looks, baby!!
When all those doctors go on a hunger strike … are they against reservation or greater salaries or do they know something that we don’t. I guess Medha Patkar and Anna Hazare are going to outlive all of us since they abstain from consuming all that contaminated food and water for so long, on so many occasions. It’s a ‘fast unto life’ for them and for everyone else- an ‘eat unto death’.
Mad cow, avian fly, salmonella, mercury in fish- pretty much everything we consume is bathed in chemicals.
I guess the biggest reason to push for cremation is that burial means pesticides will seep into the ground water!!
It’s amazing how much chemical is there in everything we use. My sink has rusted .. and it’s not the water .. it’s the mixture of shave cream, soap, cologne, washing off all the creams and the 100 other chemicals in every other product that I use, flushed in.
Even social occasions are dangerous.
When my loving aunts kiss me on my cheek … it’s Propylene glycol, Propylparaben, Glyceryl oleate, Ascorbyl palmitate,Oleyl alcohol, Cetyl acetate, Octyl methoxycinnamate,Tocopheryl acetate,Ceresin (Ozokerite),Petrolatum,Polybutene, Titanium dioxide, Octyl hydroxystearate (all ingredients of her lipstick) making contact with Palmitic acid, Stearic acid, Isobutane, Isopentane, Triethanolamine, PEG-6 Caprylic/capric glycerides, Ethanol/SD Alcohol, Allantoin, Benzophenone-2 (ingredients of my shave cream and cologne)
When my wife kisses me on my mouth it’s sheer bliss, but that’s another story.
When I kiss her on her cheeks it’s a chemical mixture of Propylparaben,Methylparaben, 2,6-Di-t-butyl-p-cresol (BHT), Zinc stearate, Sodium dehydroacetate, Quaternium-15, Acrylates copolymer, Propylene glycol, Tocopherol,Tetrasodium EDTA, Salicylic acid, Retinyl palmitate,Methylparaben, Triethanolamine, Butylene glycol, Glyceryl stearate,Magnesium carbonate (ingredients of her powder and foundation). No wonder that knocks me out.
I need to check into a detoxifying centre every time I get accosted on social occasions or have sex with my wife. It’s just like passive smoking .. someone else is sticking the chemicals on you(injecting actually .. or is it osmosis?) in the name of social contact. I’m the unwilling monkey that cosmetic companies are killing for no fault of mine. Get your Hydrogenated Polydecene off my face !!
All this knowledge is extremely unnerving. I guess I need to relax by doing something less dangerous like smoking a cigarette.
The Intellectual Terrorist
-blows your mind
Pari said,
February 16, 2007 at 3:41 pm
WOW! This would make even Lucrezia Borgia feel like an utter novice and wish to take some lessons. After reading this I feel like killing myself just to spite everyone else by getting there first.
I like your point of view on this, I dont always agree with your point of view, liking is not agreeing mind you, but I like the way you have presented this. The POV is interesting and different, and presents concerns that we may or should have, on a lighter note.
Seems whatever we do they are going to get us finally in one way or another.. I, like your mother, do not like cola but we drink juice made from… just thinking about it boggles the mind.
Maybe all the cola, insecticide, juice, cosmetic, plastic, teflon, etc, etc, companies have heavily invested in the developemnt of CAT scanners and other machinery used for radiation therepy as well as the companies producing cancer drugs and therefore have a vested interest amounting to trillions of dollars in the spread of cancer. They are just doing their best to protect their interest. isnt that what the US says whenever they attack soemone. Only the US is more honest about it.
I don’t drink cola, I don’t use cosmetics, Teflon was discarded way back and now shiny steel utensils line my kitchen shelf, cling film is a strict no no and the microwave stands in a corner in a forlorn state of neglect and disuse (had to buy it, just so people would think we were normal), So I wonder how they will get me, even now I can see ‘THEM’ devising a new method for they do get us in the end. Maybe through mercury in my Meswak. You have certainly made me view the pineapple I was enjoying with such gusto just minutes ago, with deep suspicion.
I think you mentioned somewhere that you live in the US, it is interesting to note that you use Sylvania Laxman bulbs and plastic garlands bought from Tulshibaugh there.
Looking forward to reading more
Regards
Pari